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The podcast discusses Charles Wang's journey from selling potatoes to becoming a real estate mogul and buying farms from farmers who wanted to get out of the business. The host also shares her childhood gardening experience and how it shaped her engagement with the natural world.
Michael Pollan discusses his interest in psychoactive plants and how it led him to examine our symbiotic relationship with them in his book "The Botany of Desire".
The podcast covers some personal stories of plant engagement and the lessons learnt from them, including a researcher at Hopkins who was once the world's leading researcher on caffeine, and an experiment that suggests one can never truly understand their relationship with a drug or substance unless they stand back and look at it.
This episode discusses how Purdue Pharma aggressively marketed OxyContin as a safe and non-addictive opiate, leading to the opiate crisis, while the US government implemented the drug war, leading to mass incarceration. The biggest public health crisis during this period involved legal drugs, not illegal drugs.
The host shares their experience of growing opium poppies and the legalities surrounding it, including the possession of seeds and growing the actual poppy.
The host recounts how he found a purple floppy drive in his old Connecticut house which led him to hire a prominent first amendment lawyer, Victor Kovner, to represent him with a unique contract that not only defends him but pays his wife a salary during the whole proceedings.
Author Michael Pollan explains why the scheduling of opiates and cannabis as illegal is an artifact of politics and how regulation and information are crucial for public health in the drug market.
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, expressed positive remarks on the therapeutic potential of psychedelics in a public discussion, highlighting the significant change in attitude towards the substance in recent years.
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This podcast episode discusses the ethics of using peyote as a non-native person and suggests the use of San Pedro, another type of cactus from South America that is easier to grow and obtain.
Journey Colab, a new startup, is hoping to work with mescaline and has a system of reciprocity with Native American communities. While it's known to be helpful with physical healing, there may be potential for mescaline to aid with addiction as well.
The Berkeley Center for Psychedelic Science is focusing on basic science, understanding brain mechanisms involved in the psychedelic experience, a grant for journalism, and a public education initiative, to help move the field forward in the future.
England did not have any coffee-growing colonies, they had tea-growing colonies. However, coffee still became a big fad with one coffee house for every 150 Londoners. Tea eventually took over due to colonial politics and imperialism, with countries like Amsterdam having success with coffee.
The podcast discusses organic and raised bed gardening, mentioning the books "Square Foot Gardening" and "The Vegetable Gardener's Bible" as useful references.
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