Depression, anxiety, addiction, mental disorders that involve a rigidity of thought.

What psychedelics appear to do is break those habits of thought.

What is the cost of this though? It's a great question.

One of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Please welcome Michael Pollan.

You've written six New York Times bassellers

and there was such a diverse range of topics.

Two of the topics I've worked on have turned into movements.

I was writing a piece on the meat industry and how fucked up it is.

And it led to this movement to try to reform agribate it.

Then I got into psychedelics.

They're much better than the results for antidepressants when they came on the scene.

And we're talking about potential cures, not simply symptoms.

There are risks with this and we don't talk about them nearly enough

and people are going to get hurt.

One of the immersive, journalistic pursuits you embarked on was this topic of caffeine.

It allows us to function better.

It allows us to work harder, longer.

You're feeling the clearing of the mental fog.

I can tell you the cost of doing heroin every day.

But no one can seem to tell me the cost of having three cups of coffee a day.

If you really want to understand your relationship to this drug, you have to go.

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