AWW22 This is Your Mind on Plants - Michael Pollan

Chaired by Ben Brooker.


Following his New York Times bestselling How to Change Your Mind
on the therapeutic value of psychedelics, Michael Pollan’s new
book is This is Your Mind on Plants, a radical challenge to how
we think about plants. Exploring the powerful attraction we have
to psychoactive plants, Michael asks why they are subject to such
paranoid and arbitrary regulation, and in wildly differing ways.
Examining opium, mescaline and caffeine, he posits “societies
condone the mindchanging plants that help uphold society’s rule
and ban the ones that are seen to undermine it.”