Michael Pollan on Psychoactive Plants, Chemicals and Us
Michael Pollan is an extraordinary journalist and thinker whose writing about food and drugs has educated and influenced tens of millions of readers. No book in recent history has done so much to enli...
12 Aug 202148min
Dan Ciccarone on Why So Many People are Dying of Overdoses
More people died last year from a drug overdose than from gun shootings, motor vehicle accidents, drownings and AIDS combined! Few people bring greater research and insight to this issue than Dan Cicc...
5 Aug 202144min
Melissa Moore on Legalizing Marijuana the Right Way
When New York legalized marijuana in late March, it did so in a way that instantly became the new gold standard for how best to legally regulate marijuana. No one deserves more credit for this victory...
29 Jul 202151min
Dan Savage on Sex, Drugs and Freedom
Dan Savage is the famed podcaster and columnist on sex and relationships. We talked all about drugs and sex – what works, what doesn’t, how our brains are wired for risk, and how there’s no clear line...
22 Jul 20211h 5min
James Forman Jr. on The Drug War in a Black Community
Yale Law Professor James Forman won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his courageous and remarkably insightful book, Locking Up Our Own, in which he reflected on his experience as a public defender in Wa...
15 Jul 20211h 1min
Dr. Andrew Weil on Drugs, Consciousness & Healing
The pioneering physician explains why there are no good or bad drugs, just good or bad relationships with drugs. There’s no one who has shaped my own thinking about drugs so much as Andrew Weil. Andy ...
15 Jul 202147min
The Real Drug Czar
Rolling Stone called me “the Real Drug Czar.” I’m Ethan Nadelmann and this is Psychoactive, the show about all things drugs. We want to hear from you. Our number is 1-833-779-2460. Our email is psycho...
15 Jul 20218min
Introducing PSYCHOACTIVE
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12 Jul 20212min
