3 books
Michael Pollan
A skeptical Michael Pollan came to psychedelics late, and in his sixties he took LSD, psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT under guides so he could report from inside. Around that he builds the history: The first wave of research in the fifties…
Michael Pollan
Four plants, four human desires, and the argument runs backward: The apple, the tulip, cannabis, and the potato didn’t get domesticated by us so much as they figured out what we wanted and got us to plant them everywhere. Sweetness…
Michael Pollan
This book disabused me of my illusions about “organic” and introduced me to Michael Pollan. He tackles four meals, traced all the way back to their sources. There’s a fast food dinner eaten in the car, which turns out to…
