Steve Rolles on Legalizing Drugs
The notion of legalizing any sort of illicit drug seemed preposterous to most people just twenty years ago. Now cannabis is being legalized in a growing number of states and countries, psychedelic leg...
26 Jan 20231h 32min
Paul Gootenberg on the Global History of Drugs
There’s more or less never been a drug free society in human history but scholarly examination of the history of psychoactive drugs was surprisingly sparce until just a few decades ago. Paul Gootenber...
12 Jan 20231h 1min
Dennis McKenna on The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
The renowned ethnopharmacologist and research pharmacognosist, Dennis McKenna, wrote "The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna," ten years ago. That book is being republish...
5 Jan 20231h 1min
Neil Carrier on Khat
I’ve long been fascinated by khat, the psychoactive plant that is legal and consumed widely in Yemen and the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti) but that was criminalized in recent decades...
29 Des 20221h 3min
Bonus episode: Psychedelic Confessions - Speaking Personally
I’m often a guest on other podcasts. Among the conversations I most enjoyed, and which many listeners may find particularly interesting, was with Giancarlo Canavesio on his Mangu.TV Podcast. He asked ...
22 Des 20221h 9min
Lisa McGirr on Alcohol Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
The Prohibition era (1920-33) plays a far more significant role in U.S. history than is commonly assumed. Yes, it clearly failed in its objectives. And, yes, the assumptions that led to the rapid enac...
15 Des 20221h 6min
Gabor Maté on Trauma and the Myth of Normal
“Our culture’s skewed idea of normality,” says the well known physician and author, Dr. Gabor Maté, “is the single biggest impediment to fostering a healthier world, even keeping us from acting on wha...
8 Des 202257min
