This Is Your Mind on Plants
by Michael Pollan · first published 2021
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Three essays, each oriented around a psychotropic drug: poppy growing, coffee drinking and mescaline healing.
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…https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547241-unorthodox If you haven't seen movie yet, check it out. But the book talks about what happened to her before she left her husband and place she grew up. This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56015023-this-is-your-mi... Excellent book about plants and they role in our life. Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South…
on “Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021?” ↗Somewhat related: In his recent book "This is Your Mind on Plants", Michael Pollan also discusses caffeine addiction. Transcript of an interview with him on Tim Ferriss' blog: https://tim.blog/2021/06/30/michael-pollan-this-is-your-mind... I've been off caffeine and…
on “Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)” ↗Michael Pollan on the radio. I believe he discusses it in This is Your Mind on Plants.
on “High blood caffeine levels may reduce body weight and type 2 diabetes risk” ↗He is featured prominently in at least two of Michael Pollan’s books. HowTto Change Your Mind; and This Is Your Mind On Plants.
on “Roland Griffiths' research ushered in the psychedelic Renaissance” ↗…https://www.wesjones.com/pollan1.htm as pointed out by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27804124), under the title "Opium, Made Easy" in Harper’s Magazine, left out that section. - Pollan's new (2021) book "This is Your Mind on Plants" restores that material. (Which, incidentally, involved finding a zip drive, and using LibreOffice to read the old Word document.) - Recently, in a Tim Ferris podcast, Pollan's version of the events…
on “Regarding Michael Pollan’s New Book This Is Your Mind on Plants” ↗