Changing Consciousness with Psychoactive Plants - with Michael Pollan and Jules Evans

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  • @rapauli
    @rapauli 3 роки тому +70

    Catnip - yes indeed. We notice how cats can totally destroy plants - it makes sense the catnip plant would want to erase the memory of location.. Every cat owner knows the effect of catnip is very strong ... and we should never allow cats to drive or operate heavy machinery. 💿📀

    • @David030180
      @David030180 3 роки тому +6

      I would be extremely concerned about cats driving under the influence of catnip!

    • @amargamentedoce
      @amargamentedoce 3 роки тому +3

      Thank you both for this wonderful moment of visionary future world with cats doing the heavy work

    • @frednelson3556
      @frednelson3556 3 роки тому +3

      how very true and something to get all cats should know

    • @rmt3589
      @rmt3589 3 роки тому +2

      Catmint/catnip is my favorite tea! I prefer it with a little lavender, but usually use it by itself.

    • @rebeccaerb9935
      @rebeccaerb9935 3 роки тому +2

      Lol thanks for the mental image of a cat driving a tractor 😂

  • @thelaurens1996
    @thelaurens1996 3 роки тому +14

    He's been a real pearl in the development of understanding and bringing it to a wider public.
    I am extremely grateful for the work you have done and risks you have taken!

  • @StevenGorel
    @StevenGorel 19 днів тому

    You have no idea how much this means to me. After being harmed by so many people that’s abused the gifts under the teachings of plant medicine. Love the positive talk and teachings with metaphysical arts and plants without harming the American people

  • @prasenjitpaul7172
    @prasenjitpaul7172 3 роки тому +18

    Many tribes has been using for thousands of years. Great to see our scientists are exploring these dimensions

    • @defwishfx4400
      @defwishfx4400 3 роки тому +3

      ?! Our backyard and bush doctors never stopped using them. They did and do not care what scientist have to say about it...truth and health prevails.

    • @dermotmccorkell663
      @dermotmccorkell663 3 роки тому +3

      About @#$%ing time

  • @charlieevergreen3514
    @charlieevergreen3514 2 роки тому

    15:25 I love observing the different systems and survival tactics of different plants. There’s an amazing variation.

  • @fatmandoobius
    @fatmandoobius 3 роки тому +11

    On the point of the drug war is anyone really surprised by the outcome. It’s essentially the same result as prohibition. If there is a demand people will seek it out and those able to supply it will get rich but with it being outlawed those risking to supply it are not the nicest characters and will outright fight each other for competition of that market. Prohibition helped the mob rise the drug war helped the cartels rise.

    • @paladro
      @paladro 3 роки тому +1

      i'd suggest the ones keeping it alive aren't as bad as you might think

    • @frednelson3556
      @frednelson3556 3 роки тому +2

      easy to avoid criminals when legal purchase is available

  • @TheVerendus
    @TheVerendus 2 роки тому +2

    What an amazing discussion and conversation. People should be free to use whichever drugs they want and there should be systems in place to help prescribe and inform people about proper drug use.

    • @ems7623
      @ems7623 2 роки тому

      Yes, but when you say "free to use whichever drugs they want" and then, in the next sentence talk about prescribing systems, you aren't speaking consistently.
      Every substance that is prescribed is not completely free to use. They are guarded. Only doctors can grant you access to them.
      I'm absolutely fine with the medical system for anything and everything that has enough proven risks associated with them and limited OTC access to other substances if being informed about those substances is an essential part of access to them.
      i don't think it should be okay for pseuomedical claims to be made for substances. That includes cannabis, where they presently go unchallenged. (Some seem to believe it is a cure-all, now. I recently saw a medical cannabis promoter claim it would even help eczema - a skin condition, of all things.) Ultimately, dispensaries should probably be operated by a pharmacist, not a salesperson.

  • @deltalima6703
    @deltalima6703 3 роки тому +14

    Excellent discussion, bravo and thanks.

  • @chrisbova9686
    @chrisbova9686 3 роки тому +11

    I'm writing a book, listening to this, and I eat coffee beans in ice cream, fine ground espresso, accompanied by more thc than it would take to sedate a hippo. So much of this converstaion resonated with me.

  • @davidsweeney111
    @davidsweeney111 3 роки тому +10

    Consciousness isn’t changed just perception

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems 2 роки тому +7

    Always thought the RI was a worthy institution but they've gone up a whole lot more in my estimation with this mature and objective discussion

    • @MorallyResponsible
      @MorallyResponsible Рік тому

      Wire like neuronal structures that conduct electricity via ions/neurotransmitters in the CNS/PNS possess no attribute of thinking/life and yet that has “randomly” led to life. Consciousness/thinking is an innate idea(“Fitra”) that is distinct from carbon skeleton and yet the materialist scientist believes that chemistry turned into biology via “god of randomness”/”Emergent property”/”law of nature”. Consciousness can only stem from Necessary Consciousness (Allah-one/indivisible/loving/self-sufficient Perfection)

  • @sirvapalot
    @sirvapalot 3 роки тому +3

    I don’t find any vulnerability to accidents etc via psychoactive substances, I believe there is precious little negative to changing consciousness.

    • @bellezavudd
      @bellezavudd 2 роки тому

      Diving, rock climbing, and chainsaws are 3 things I tend to avoid trying while on big doses.
      Small doses I wouldnt recommend mixing it up with those either. I have but really dont think its a good idea, at all.

  • @theodoreholland7781
    @theodoreholland7781 3 роки тому +3

    When scanning the brain, boredom is observed to activate 'the pain matrix' or regions of the brain responsive to pain. I can therefore understand why drug consumption will never be 'edited out' for evolutionary reasons.

  • @silberlinie
    @silberlinie 3 роки тому +1

    Die Autonomie und das Recht auf mentale
    Selbstbestimmung ist ein entscheidendes Thema
    der modernen deutschen Philosophie des
    Geistes und des Bewustseins.

  • @Neilhuny
    @Neilhuny 3 роки тому +16

    UA-cam tells me that this video has been available for 4 minutes and yet 104 people have 👍 it and 4 have 👎 it. I understand that many will be pleased to see anything from the RI, but 4 'dislikes'? That must surely be based on the title and an inherent dislike of psychoactive drugs? It seems odd, to me, to dislike a video before it is possible to have watched it

    • @Neilhuny
      @Neilhuny 3 роки тому +2

      Maybe UA-cam fibs - I see some comments were left an hour ago

    • @defwishfx4400
      @defwishfx4400 3 роки тому +2

      THIS is your worry? That someone clicked a button on a web page? What do YOU do if a cat gets sad???

    • @defwishfx4400
      @defwishfx4400 3 роки тому +1

      @@Neilhuny talk to some humanoids. You are scary.

    • @BlastinRope
      @BlastinRope 3 роки тому +1

      I disliked it as a reaction to your comment

    • @Neilhuny
      @Neilhuny 3 роки тому +3

      @@defwishfx4400 Take a chill pill

  • @markbridger
    @markbridger 3 роки тому +17

    I found it interesting to ponder the correlation of caffeine's broad introduction to the West with the rise of western business and the disruption/backlash caused by the rediscovery of psychedelics in the 60s.
    From what is said here, caffeine appears to consolidate the ego and emphasise the individual, while psychedelics appear to dissolve the ego and emphasise the group or whole.
    The 60s backlash would appear to be the western, individualist, capitalistic system having an immune response to the psychedelic's potential to disrupt/dissolve the focus on the individual, upon which capitalism seems to depend.
    Given society has now given ground to the return of psychedelics it would suggest, at first glance, we are potentially living in more interesting times than it would appear.

    • @dermotmccorkell663
      @dermotmccorkell663 3 роки тому +2

      Interesting times indeed.
      Ai, biotech and transcendental.
      One way or another human consciousness is set for an upgrade soon.
      That or we destroy ourselves.

    • @5wift
      @5wift 3 роки тому

      Yes, the rise of neoliberalism but coffee has been around through all of that. Maybe the psychadelics offset the cultural influence of caffeine.

  • @dermotmccorkell663
    @dermotmccorkell663 3 роки тому +10

    The candy ? Is complex.
    My aged mother cannot tolerate cannabis other than the gummies
    We been through them all .
    She is mobile now after 2 years crippled with arthritis. .

    • @GrimSleepy
      @GrimSleepy 3 роки тому +2

      My friend's mother is the same way. Her lungs cannot handle the harsh carcinogens involved when burning and inhaling.

    • @dermotmccorkell663
      @dermotmccorkell663 3 роки тому +1

      @@GrimSleepy I hope she is getting some relief from the chronic pain.

    • @GrimSleepy
      @GrimSleepy 3 роки тому +3

      @@dermotmccorkell663 My buddy got her 3 or 4 different gummies of varying levels of Sativa x Indica ratios. Pain, sleep, and appetite. I'm not sure how they're working for her, I second your hopes that they're helping.
      I'm amazed at some of the miracles cannabis has achieved in recent times. The Charlotte's Web strain that a father grew free of THC that miraculously reduced and I believe stopped the seizures his daughter regularly suffered... Your mother's story kind of gives me hope, Rheumatoid Arthritis runs through my family, maybe there's light at the end of the tunnel.
      I hope the best for you and your mother. Love and be loved, friend!

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 3 роки тому +2

      @@GrimSleepy they are sold in stores here, but there are no issues with it. No massive addiction, no kids eating them by accident, no desperate junkies, nothing.

    • @GrimSleepy
      @GrimSleepy 3 роки тому +3

      @@deltalima6703 It's cannabis. One would have to be highly susceptible to addictive behavior to be addicted to THC. They wouldn't even be addicted to the THC as far as I understand, it would be the behavior that they were addicted to.
      I live in Michigan, we have dispensaries popping up everywhere. I'm not a fan of edibles myself, I vaporize the 'wax' concentrates when I partake.
      P.S. Hehe, responding to your other comment regarding the drug war being lost: Coincidentally, Nuclear plants are guarded with rifles. If plants have nuclear weapons, wouldn't that make them nuclear plants, and our responsibility to guard?
      😃

  • @brianeastlick7293
    @brianeastlick7293 3 роки тому +4

    I absolutely love this channel! Great perspectives As usual

  • @FlyingRhenquest
    @FlyingRhenquest 3 роки тому +2

    That bit about the DOJ cracking down on gardeners and florists selling poppy heads the year Oxycontin was released is mind boggling. Do you think that effort was at the request of Purdue Pharma?

  • @theresahemminger1587
    @theresahemminger1587 3 роки тому +3

    People who benefit from cannabis as a pain relief might not be able to smoke it because of asthma. That was me. So, chewable was one alternative.

  • @Bilistickpitbull
    @Bilistickpitbull 2 роки тому

    I knew all this 20 years ago nice to know people are finally catching up

  • @gregorypdearth
    @gregorypdearth 3 роки тому +11

    It is wonderful that he decided not to take that drug out of considerations for the Native Americans. Appreciation and appropriation sometimes overlap. He was still able to get a perspective of the usage and ritual just by being there without consumption.

    • @richiehoyt8487
      @richiehoyt8487 Рік тому

      I _get_ the historical issues involved, the arguments about cultural appropriation and so on; but at the end of the day, who is anyone to say to _anyone,_ "Oh this is ok for _Us,_ but _You?_ No, it's not for You..."

  • @emdiar6588
    @emdiar6588 3 роки тому +2

    As a Brit I am completely convinced of the psychoactivity of tea. If I don't get a mug of it as soon as I get up, I don't function correctly.

  • @waoweMan
    @waoweMan 2 роки тому +1

    Plantas y demás unidades del universo tienen conciencia. Quienes hemos experimentado la unidad del todo comprendemos que la conciencia no es la capacidad cognitiva o la inteligencia, sino el observador silencioso detrás de todo el fenómeno.

  • @QuaaludeCharlie
    @QuaaludeCharlie 3 роки тому +3

    Everything is about set and Setting .

  • @jopmens6960
    @jopmens6960 Рік тому

    So agreed about 34:40 but also: psychedelics are in some ways the opposite of narcotic drugs. The term drugs being usually associated with narcotics, that make you feel certain things less rather than more.
    But that subject is pretty divorced from why commercialization is quite concerning.
    Decriminalization different story. Legalization is fantastic if you dont think about it but if you do you realize it must come with mature precautionary measures.

  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox13 3 роки тому +20

    "You're a walking drugstore" -Josh White.
    With that said, the Inuit do, indeed, get high . . . well, they get out of towners high by feeding them Sleeper shark meat in their food. The dude gets pretty high, but also has the greasiest farts ever. The Inuit jokesters enjoy much hilarity over it. True story.

    • @dermotmccorkell663
      @dermotmccorkell663 3 роки тому +6

      That's poetic justice.
      Well I am shure the indigenous population are laughing.

    • @charlescrary4084
      @charlescrary4084 3 роки тому +3

      Self defense tool of choice

  • @cantubloodaxe768
    @cantubloodaxe768 3 роки тому +2

    Is that Stamets mushroom cap?

  • @michaelelbert5798
    @michaelelbert5798 2 роки тому +2

    I think of drugs as being helping me. But as far as creativity , I think you have to already have . In other words, drugs don't change people. It only helps to improve or other thoughts. Ultimately all the choices are made by oneself based on previous experiences and interpretations.

  • @sayeager5559
    @sayeager5559 3 роки тому +12

    The catnip story had me laughing.

    • @cyankirkpatrick5194
      @cyankirkpatrick5194 3 роки тому +1

      My cat goes mean on catnip,I talking one on plank, that is why they get none.

    • @sayeager5559
      @sayeager5559 3 роки тому +2

      @@cyankirkpatrick5194 Both my cats love it, but the dried catnip they will always eat right away. The fresh stuff they roll around in.

  • @jj0493
    @jj0493 3 роки тому +12

    Remember, space travel is only safe when high

  • @zapfan7029
    @zapfan7029 2 роки тому

    Well, that was a perfect talk to accompany my morning coffee 🙂

  • @robinbinns
    @robinbinns 2 роки тому

    Fantastic video.

  • @bethanyhunt2704
    @bethanyhunt2704 3 роки тому

    That "putting yourself back together" in the morning can happen without caffeine. I do it every morning without much trouble, though it probably takes a bit longer.

  • @jopmens6960
    @jopmens6960 Рік тому

    About caffeine: the combination with theanine is fascinating... attenuates the side-effects

  • @associatedblacksheepandmisfits
    @associatedblacksheepandmisfits 2 роки тому

    Using plants to reconcile expectations with reality 🤔
    Huxley's Doors to perception.
    A mirror to nature vs nurture.
    The tempting pathway to the infinite answer to the question "why?"
    Nature's neural exploration.
    I wonder what a computer would eventually achieve if programmed to constantly ask the 'why' of every piece of information it receives ..

  • @richardrutgard1847
    @richardrutgard1847 3 роки тому

    Why no mention of tobacco plant?

  • @lastchance8142
    @lastchance8142 3 роки тому +8

    "The drugs have won the drug war"....indeed!!

  • @GrimSleepy
    @GrimSleepy 3 роки тому +2

    17:00 I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me) - Marilyn Manson

  • @chrisnewman658
    @chrisnewman658 3 роки тому

    Great insights. Very interesting!

  • @Eldorado1239
    @Eldorado1239 3 роки тому

    Fascinating and informative!
    Maybe you could look into nootropics now, that's something I can only see growing in importance over the years and its mostly related.

  • @goldenappel
    @goldenappel 3 роки тому +4

    Pleased I got to add the 420th like to this.

  • @erikschiegg68
    @erikschiegg68 3 роки тому

    I like the one that changes consiousness from sleepy to fully awake.
    I think they call it coffee.

  • @davidbader5252
    @davidbader5252 3 роки тому

    Can you have a caffeine and lsd balance? How do you dissociate the ego but still stay driven?

  • @mealex303
    @mealex303 3 роки тому +7

    I feel all drugs that come from plants should be legal and all lab made unless used by surgeons and Doctors should not be.

    • @derekfrost8991
      @derekfrost8991 3 роки тому +3

      Yes. That's good advice.

    • @tantzer6113
      @tantzer6113 3 роки тому +9

      Wrong and arbitrary “feeling.” What you “feel” is not based on evidence.

    • @GrimSleepy
      @GrimSleepy 3 роки тому +3

      @@tantzer6113 He's still permitted his feelings, and opinion. Rather than attack like he's your enemy, just share your difference of opinion. If you have any, provide some factoids.
      @_P-i-V_ * As for my feelings, I could see trends starting where masses of people learn of a certain species of plant, and all go to it's locale to harvest it for themselves, and effectively causing damage to the local ecosystem.
      Keep in mind that every chemical compound created in a lab is made up of the same atomic building blocks of the universe. Nothing in nature, whether man had a hand in it's formation or not, is truly unnatural. Then there have been chemical compounds (not sure about drugs) that we had believed were novel creations, that were later found to exist in one form or another in the natural world.
      Finally, some of the drugs that come from plants, have to be manipulated through chemistry to provide the desired mind altering substance. There's a point where the line blurs between 'manicured' and 'manufactured'.

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 3 роки тому +4

      You are entitled to your feelings. Please try not to affect any laws that will impact me, however, because I completely disagree. Plants are a lab, thats reality. The war on drugs is lost, plants have nuclear weapons we only have assault rifles, its time to surrender, not double down and be destroyed. If somebody like shulgin or pollan wants to explore entheogens let them.

    • @credenza1
      @credenza1 3 роки тому +2

      I have seen people ruin their lives on marijuana.

  • @gmotionedc5412
    @gmotionedc5412 3 роки тому

    Very cool info. I want more

  • @dermotmccorkell663
    @dermotmccorkell663 3 роки тому +15

    Go Oregon.
    Don't forget Portugal.
    I lack the emojis to go to far.

    • @EmilMToft
      @EmilMToft 3 роки тому

      You obviously also lack the ability to communicate and spell.

    • @dermotmccorkell663
      @dermotmccorkell663 3 роки тому +1

      @@EmilMToft I get my point a cross 🙊🙈🙉

  • @bryandraughn9830
    @bryandraughn9830 2 роки тому

    The hat on the end of that bookshelf looks very familiar!

  • @theodoreholland7781
    @theodoreholland7781 3 роки тому

    I can vouch for Frank the cat and his poor memory when looking for his 'Nip dose', my cat does exactly the same thing, and only for nip! Not exactly a clinical trial but more evidence...lol. Great interview, I will buy the book, thank you gentlemen!

  • @kinngrimm
    @kinngrimm 3 роки тому +4

    kinn grimm
    vor 35 Sekunden (bearbeitet)
    Seems like it would be beneficial within societies which already legalized certain drugs to create groupes which do these together and also in a ritualistic way, to avoid abuse equally to having someone softly leading you through the experience or a group supporting you when your issues manifest.
    In comparison to only having a hedonistic pleasure seeking money making consume orientated aproach.

  • @StevenGorel
    @StevenGorel 19 днів тому

    So I am trying to get on a nice plant diet but I don’t want someone holding my consciousness in a negative way or tethering to me making me have a negative experience

  • @justadam1917
    @justadam1917 3 роки тому +8

    Be very very careful when we were young a friend of mine was fed too much mushroom and he was never the same, it devastated his entire family

    • @martinrea8548
      @martinrea8548 3 роки тому +2

      Excess consumption can indeed be dangerous. Thirty little Liberty Caps is the sweet spot.

    • @anonharingenamn
      @anonharingenamn 3 роки тому +2

      Agreed. Drugs brought out panic attacks in me. It was cannabis though, and it was most likely there in the background anyhow, lots of people get panic attacks without trying drugs.

    • @dermotmccorkell663
      @dermotmccorkell663 3 роки тому

      I had a friend killed by an asprin.

    • @cancel1913
      @cancel1913 3 роки тому +3

      Have you ever tried Oxygen? Look at me I'm hooked forever!!!

    • @ebaystars
      @ebaystars 3 роки тому

      He became enlightened when he was high and saw his family for what they really were - and told them...fail

  • @bikerfirefarter7280
    @bikerfirefarter7280 3 роки тому

    Could you not publish the 'missing' pages as a free anonymous/'unconnected' reference/research, stating that it is only someones personal opinion? Then buyers of your book would have a complete copy without you being at risk.

  • @MrWonderful09
    @MrWonderful09 3 роки тому

    Regarding cannabis chocolate bars with 1000 mg. Many patients who are in constant pain use these bars to reduce pain and there is no overdose.

  • @BCBrown-pd1dp
    @BCBrown-pd1dp 3 роки тому

    Alcoholics anonymous does a type of group healing in some areas. Holiness churches give a type of group healing in some churches.

  • @junkettarp8942
    @junkettarp8942 Рік тому

    ☘🌵🌱🌺🌻🥀Bring on the plants.

  • @myownprivateglasgow280
    @myownprivateglasgow280 3 роки тому

    Exercise and the locomotive body - fasting - bathing in freezing water, sensory deprivation... all expand consciousness. No drugs required.

  • @michaelwoodsmccausland915
    @michaelwoodsmccausland915 3 роки тому

    It’s the In door to the out door
    We are dependent upon the other Kingdoms

  • @gizmothewytchdoktor1049
    @gizmothewytchdoktor1049 3 роки тому +6

    hallucinogens.... take a trip and never leave the farm,as it were. great way to pack a weeks worth of vacation into a weekend too. note: not for the insecure nor weak minded.

    • @SomeMorganSomewhere
      @SomeMorganSomewhere 3 роки тому +2

      Just don't overdo it, according to the other members of Pink Floyd at the time Syd Barrett took too much LSD one night and never really came back.

    • @mikenewell9217
      @mikenewell9217 3 роки тому +1

      When we're all mushrooms we will
      Be the halluci nation

    • @proudhammer62
      @proudhammer62 2 роки тому

      LSD my favorite drug

  • @dazzz81
    @dazzz81 3 роки тому +8

    Drugs will 100% alter your consciousness. No matter how you try to make sense of this experience you will always come back to the same issue of how to prove P=NP, but now with psychedelic coloured cats alive and dead at the same time.

    • @wareforcoin5780
      @wareforcoin5780 3 роки тому +3

      Schroedinger's Molly Cat

    • @dazzz81
      @dazzz81 3 роки тому +3

      I hereby decree my next cat shall be called Molly. .......If the current one turns out to have exploded in a black hole.

    • @GrimSleepy
      @GrimSleepy 3 роки тому +3

      @@dazzz81 I heard a thought experiment recently: Assuming there are an innumerable quantity of universes. Put yourself in the position of the cat. You will never wake up as the dead cat, as you would then be dead. Therefore you will always find yourself to be the living cat. Are we therefore immortal creatures, if we cannot experience being dead?

    • @dazzz81
      @dazzz81 3 роки тому +2

      Mark Compton You're not factoring in all the components of the equation. From the perspective of the cat, humans look like dogs. It's the direction of rotation of the yin yang. The circle of life. P will therefore will always be greater the NP. It's the flow of entropy. "The corn will grow if the chickens are not hungry." Brushy One String. Peace be upon him.

    • @GrimSleepy
      @GrimSleepy 3 роки тому +1

      @@dazzz81 My cats look at me like I'm the sanitation worker sometimes and the waitstaff others... I think the Egyptians gave cats a big head, and I'm not sure we'll ever live it down. 🤪

  • @hanshart1472
    @hanshart1472 3 роки тому +1

    The difference between poison and medicine is the dose”

  • @MichaelDembinski
    @MichaelDembinski 3 роки тому +3

    "Sugar has drug-like effects, especially on children" - wow.

    • @ediedotson7865
      @ediedotson7865 3 роки тому

      You didn't know that

    • @MichaelDembinski
      @MichaelDembinski 3 роки тому

      @@ediedotson7865 Other than what's in fresh fruit, sugar I don't eat at all.

  • @alistairgreen1272
    @alistairgreen1272 3 роки тому

    Graham Hancock's "Supernatural" is an excellent book.

  • @yolandaphillips3972
    @yolandaphillips3972 3 роки тому +1

    💡💞💡💞. Thank you one million times. 👍👍👍💯💯💯✔✔✔♾♾♾😌😌😌💡💞💡💞.

  • @SubvertTheState
    @SubvertTheState 3 роки тому

    That 1998 poppey story is insane.

  • @donk1822
    @donk1822 3 роки тому +3

    Psychedelics are one of the few treatments for psychopathy, they changed me. Having said that, for many, they are also a route to subtle insanity.

  • @mbak7801
    @mbak7801 3 роки тому +1

    In the UK there is no statute of limitations. No time limit for crime which in a way can be a good thing.

  • @soberhippie
    @soberhippie 3 роки тому

    I spent quite a lot of time trying to read the text on Michael Pollan's sweater, until I realised it isn't text. And I'm not on anything, I swear.
    Or is it, though. I'm beginning to freak out, man

  • @carbon1479
    @carbon1479 3 роки тому +3

    4:03 - Echoing Carl Hart already - which is good, the stigma needs to be taken down.

  • @johnburman966
    @johnburman966 3 роки тому +1

    Missing the point. When social conditions are so alienated from nature the desire is to escape. When rats overbreed they go crazy......this is where we are.....there are too many humans. They have become domesticated animals.

  • @ancientmantra608
    @ancientmantra608 2 роки тому

    love from kerala❤🌈

  • @soumyadipsarkar2910
    @soumyadipsarkar2910 3 роки тому

    Seriously, not one mention of Melange from the planet Arrakis ? although it is the poop of gigantic sandwormds. But still.

  • @tombowers536
    @tombowers536 2 роки тому

    I don't drink and I don't smoke tobacco but use mdma psilocybin cannabis and DMT every now and then and have always been advocating for the safe regulation of these substances to allow people who choose to put them in their body to do it safely and know what they're taking. I use mdma to enhance my experience of live music that takes away some of the sensory issues I would normally be having that are part of being autistic and being in a large crowd of people so I can spend a night dancing and forget about the stress of life. I harvest psilocybin mushrooms once a year when they grow in my area which I micro dose for mental health and anxiety issues until they run out. I take DMT to experience not only the visualisations but to aid creativity, mental health and meditation on things that really matter. All drugs can be abused that's obvious to all with legal and illicit but by encouraging a criminal element to that trade that's never going to go away. People should be allowed to use things that they choose to take themselves and by providing a safe source and regulation of these products you'll save more lives by allowing people to do it safely.

  • @pran7003
    @pran7003 Рік тому

    I have known people that went to ahuasca sessions and had wonderful exp. As i knew them later they still had immense personal problems and one other person committed suicide because she could not handle a cold world after her wondrous elevated loving exp.

  • @SharpSapphire
    @SharpSapphire 2 роки тому

    I’d live to be a botanist 💚

  • @Debs785
    @Debs785 3 роки тому

    I think I am missing something with the coffee thing, it jus dons do it for me.

  • @adityaray203
    @adityaray203 3 роки тому

    in 5:00, did he say drug mutate memes!?

  • @gnomefuel
    @gnomefuel 3 роки тому +1

    psychedelics in the royal institution = cool
    michael pollan as the academic spokesperson for psychedelics = not cool

  • @archieg8009
    @archieg8009 3 роки тому +1

    I prefer outers.

  • @bl5752
    @bl5752 2 роки тому

    Look into the rise of Jansianism, mysticism was alive and well in the 18th century.

  • @credenza1
    @credenza1 3 роки тому +3

    I wouldnt be holding Oregon up as an example of enlightened social policy. It is a cluster...

    • @frednelson3556
      @frednelson3556 3 роки тому

      its a cluster of the peacemakers and empaths

    • @vjross2480
      @vjross2480 3 роки тому

      @@frednelson3556 The voter got the cluster. Others are moving to Texas.

    • @mikenewell9217
      @mikenewell9217 3 роки тому +1

      When we're reliving the dark ages
      It's hard to be enlightened

    • @mikenewell9217
      @mikenewell9217 3 роки тому

      The whole drug war was about
      Diversion

    • @ems7623
      @ems7623 2 роки тому

      Oregon is a properous state which is doing pretty well by most objective standards of measurement.

  • @stephencurd4478
    @stephencurd4478 3 роки тому

    New book title:indigenous use of psychadelics!

  • @BCBrown-pd1dp
    @BCBrown-pd1dp 3 роки тому +1

    The Bible states clearly that he made the plants for our healing, why is it such a discovery now.?

    • @snotwurfit
      @snotwurfit 2 роки тому

      States clearly where? Do you have book, chapter and verse?

  • @muma8207
    @muma8207 3 роки тому

    I suggest naming the psychoactive drugs "inner" rather than "outer."

    • @bryandraughn9830
      @bryandraughn9830 3 роки тому

      Not really.

    • @ebaystars
      @ebaystars 3 роки тому

      "oh man I'm into my mind" what a good idea, "out of my mind" the hippy trip quip seem now inappropriate in the light of conciousness changing research. I expect that the people who hate this idea are reincarnations of the same people that killed the Cathars in their thousands for their (simliar) beliefs!

  • @kevinmruel5528
    @kevinmruel5528 3 роки тому

    No difference between doctors giving you meds only difference is they get paid by companies other than that self help is what is the goal

  • @joebarron396
    @joebarron396 3 роки тому +5

    Some call it a man's sport . Exercising demon'sthat can Make or break not recommended if married or with children or the weak spirited.👊

  • @spacemooseable
    @spacemooseable 3 роки тому

    Plonts?

  • @davidtouchstone4871
    @davidtouchstone4871 2 роки тому +1

    Actually, there is no disparity whatsoever between the races as far as incarceration rates when the sample is controlled for income etc. I am a White man and got 25 years for Possession and don't appreciate you making false claims about stuff like that, pal.

  • @Weissenschenkel
    @Weissenschenkel 3 роки тому +4

    Sugar isn't a drug, science already proven there's a placebo effect *on parents*. But how's that possible? Simple: the control group had candy and sodas with artificial sweeteners, while parents and people who were observing didn't know which kids had sugar instead. And all children were as crazy as usual, no substantial difference between groups.
    It's a misconception like that "tongue map" where the sweet taste buds are located on the tip of the tongue. We all should get rid of these old ideas.

    • @chrisnewbury3793
      @chrisnewbury3793 3 роки тому +4

      Sugar is a drug, in every definition of the word. It is far more of a drug than a plant like Cannabis.

    • @MrTuneslol
      @MrTuneslol 2 роки тому

      Sugar is a drug. Just because the myth of a "sugar high" was perpetuated, doesn't detract from the fact that it is still a drug. Just like many other things considered to be "normal" are also drugs.

  • @derekfrost8991
    @derekfrost8991 3 роки тому +2

    Nothing psychoactive grows in Greenland.. what about mushrooms?? 🍄🍄🍄🤣

    • @defwishfx4400
      @defwishfx4400 3 роки тому +1

      Experts cant know about them. Esp. not if they spend time and money to do research. Sure, any clown can google and knows better. But the expert already has his pay check...and is way to high to remember.

    • @TheEvilmooseofdoom
      @TheEvilmooseofdoom 3 роки тому +2

      Not a plant. :)

  • @92Pyromaniac
    @92Pyromaniac 3 роки тому

    The effect of sugar on kids has been shown to be placebo I believe

  • @Mandragara
    @Mandragara 3 роки тому +1

    Salvia gang

  • @donaldbird1005
    @donaldbird1005 2 роки тому

    I question an agency.

  • @rk41gator
    @rk41gator 3 роки тому

    Certain drugs are pro-social. Interesting and an obvious observation that is easily overlooked. Cultural mutations? Think internet and 'smart' phones!

  • @michaelchildish
    @michaelchildish 3 роки тому +3

    I like how my comment saying nicotine is as bad as synthetic cannabinoids was removed the instant I posted it. Big Tobacco not liking FACTS AND LOGIC, the youtube algorithm, or a TRIGGERED nicotine addict? All as bad as each other for cognitive and emotional dissonance

  • @ems7623
    @ems7623 2 роки тому

    I do not follow his line of logic when he speaks about peyote and the Native American Church. It is perfectly possible to grow peyote for medical and even recreational use, if we decided we wanted to do that, without disrupting the availability of peyote to American Indians through that church or any others that might come into being on reservations.
    Where's the conflict?
    Besides, the kind of Americans who might want to use peyote recreationally are far from being the kind of Americans who would allow themselves to exploit native America.

  • @christianfranks3550
    @christianfranks3550 3 роки тому +1

    cool

  • @davidbutler99
    @davidbutler99 Рік тому

    Psychedelics should not be regulated. They should be a right.

  • @davidtouchstone4871
    @davidtouchstone4871 2 роки тому

    Psilocybin mushrooms grow in cow dung around Austin.

  • @ashaman7653
    @ashaman7653 Рік тому

    I am also not writing a book