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81: Michael Pollan | A Renaissance in the Forbidden Science of Psychedelics

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I've Never Heard of LSD, but What Is It?

There's some debate over how broadly to divine psychedelics. The definition that I liked and relied on in the book is a class of so-called classic psychedelics. They all operate on the same receptor sites in the brain, serotonin 2A receptors. meskaline has been around for longer, actually, than the others. It's in peyote; it was isolated around 1900.

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