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Michael Pollan, author of "This Is Your Mind On Plants," answers the internet's burning questions about psychedelics. How does LSD work? What is ego death? How are psychedelics used for addiction therapy? Why are psychedelics so frowned upon? Michael answers all these questions and much more.
For more on the pharmacology of plants, read Michael Pollan's latest book THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665612/this-is-your-mind-on-plants-by-michael-
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Expert Answers Psychedelics Questions From Twitter (ft. Michael Pollan) | Tech Support | WIRED
Michael Pollan, author of “This Is Your Mind On Plants,” answers the internet’s burning questions about psychedelics. How does LSD work? What is ego death? How are psychedelics used for addiction therapy? Why are psychedelics so frowned upon? Michael answers all these questions and much more.
For more on the pharmacology of plants, read Michael Pollan’s latest book THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS – https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665612/this-is-your-mind-on-plants-by-michael-
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Expert Answers Psychedelics Questions From Twitter (ft. Michael Pollan) | Tech Support | WIRED
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Psilocybin mushrooms saved my life honestly. They helped me see the pure beauty in life, and made me realize how dumb it would be to take myself out.
Once deep in a 8g shrooms trip I was so tired I fell asleep somehow woke up with somebody else's legs lmao don't ever sleep on shrooms
Had ego death on 5gs before had 20 gs and didn't even trip mushies are so interesting
"Why are psychedelics frowned upon"?
Because all too often the 'addicted' recreational 'drug addicts/abusers' use them improperly, and in the wrong set and setting, and inevitably 'freak out' on them, and then report bad trips of which others fail to understand it was the users' fault and not the visionary drugs' fault
Psychedelics have the ability to induce profound altered states of consciousness.
maybe because we give people with adhd amphetamines and it calms them giving schizophrenics psychedelics would reduce their symptoms also.
I ego death’d, insanely humbling & amazed at what I become/saw in my mind.
I'd love to do peyote
Psychedelics have the potential to make a significant impact on mental health issues like anxiety and depression. They've been incredibly helpful for me personally.
"recent Renaissance of research" is such a good phrase. Immediate scratch to the alliteration itch. ❤
Psychedelics have the ability to induce profound altered states of consciousness.
To avoid a bad trip take it in the morning not at night with vitamin C and a playlist of music to calm your nerves with some headphones and do it in nature not the city.
Peyote is grown in Mexico, too.
I love the colour of your jacket. Deliberate, of course.
17 seconds into the video and I ordered the book! Lol
I appreciate Michael’s knowledge and wisdom. However, I do not think he has had the experience of smoking DMT, so I would set that particular answer aside.
I have been depressed for a long time, but after taking shrooms few months ago, l feel much happier and highly motivated and my ADHD gone , lost a ton of anxiousness and had a few epiphanies about how I should live my life. I decided to buy an ounce for backup, but haven’t yet felt the need to take any more since then.
@9:50 so funny to watch this on bicycle day 🙂
A stranger told me about Pollan today….kinda out of the blue as we sat on a bench looking down towards Santa Cruz Boardwalk…..nice
So no one is out there trying to find out if lil gnomes and elves are real by using psychedelics. Wtf is up with y'all in the psychology department go check that out please!