Michael Pollan

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Michael Pollan (This is Your Mind on Plants, The Omnivore's Dilemma) is an author, journalist, and professor at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Michael joins the Armchair Expert to discuss changing your consciousness through plant-based drugs, how drugs are nature's tools for coping with the ego, and the stigmas associated with psilocybin mushrooms. Michael and Dax talk about addictions to drugs like alcohol and caffeine, the social norms that were created for everyday drugs like nicotine, and getting into hot water for growing opium in his garden. Michael explains that there are evolutionary reasons for plants to produce psychedelic effects on humans and animals, how the war on drugs affected the public perception of controlled substances, and that psychedelics need to be regulated if they are ever made legal. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	We are supported by Welcome Welcome to arm chair expert. Was that confusing? I tried.
0:06.4	Yeah, that was a good twist pop out. Thank you. I'm I'm Dax Sheppard and I'm joined by Monica
0:12.4	Lily Padman. Hi there. Emmy nominated. I'm uh... i'm dach sheppard and i'm joined by monica lily padman
0:13.8	hi there emme nominated
0:15.4	you know it's
0:16.8	sometimes now and i feel guilty about this
0:20.2	sometimes now we're doing like press and stuff.
0:23.0	And they introduce you as Emmy nominated?
0:25.0	Yeah, because they don't know.
0:27.0	They just heard you say it and now they think it's real.
0:30.0	I mean, it is real.
0:31.0	It is real.
0:32.0	But it's not real in the way that they should be introducing.
0:35.8	I love it. I love it and I disagree. You know who else is real as hell? Michael Pollan.
0:40.9	He's the realist. He's the realist. He'll tell you the truth.
0:43.4	Michael Pollan is an author and a journalist who is currently the Knight Professor of Science and
0:47.9	Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
0:52.1	He wrote the wildly popular book, The Omnivores
0:54.5	Dilemma, In Defense of Food, Cooked,
0:57.8	and How to Change Your Mind.
0:58.8	He has a new book called This Is Your Mind on Plants
1:01.8	where he explores the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants and challenges the way we think about all drugs from psychedelics to tea and coffee. This was thrilling.
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