Michael Pollan
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What year was Waking Up published?
2014.
Yeah.
So that was early.
That was before this science at Johns Hopkins had gotten a lot of publicity and suddenly we were taking psychedelics seriously as a therapeutic modality.
I think we're in a very different moment than the 60s.
I think there was a lot of careless use of psychedelics.
Things went wrong and psychedelics also got really entangled in the counterculture.
And that was part of the backlash.
I mean, Nixon targeted psychedelics because he thought it was one of the reasons that American boys were refusing to fight in Vietnam.
And he may well have been right.
Well, we should say that people, some people like Timothy Leary, perhaps most notably, made that connection, that political connection explicit.
Right.
It's like, you know.
Yeah.
But so did Nixon.
Nixon said, you know, well, he said Leary was public enemy number one.
Most dangerous man in America.
That's right.
Most dangerous man in America, which is quite a statement.
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