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On Being with Krista Tippett

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Drugs Are a Mixed Bag

There are many drugs that, in their sort of natural plant form, are fairly benign. But when you refine it and intensify it there are sweets of alkaloids in these plants. And so the white powder drugs are more dangerous than their plant sources in general. Alil m, sugar ba, much like sugar. The drugs aren't inherently good or evil. It's very contextual. I think the greeks had a more subtle understanding of drugs. We tend to either celebrate them or condemn them. They call them pharmacon and a pharmacon couldEither a blessing or a curse, a poison or a medicine. That term was coined by timothy leary to talk about psychod

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