Michael Pollan

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Making Sense with Sam Harris · #475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness · 12 May 2026 podcast

He also said that about Daniel Ellsberg though.

So most, he had a pretty broad definition of most.

Now, psychedelics are no longer coded liberal or left or counterculture.

I mean, look at last week, the president issued an executive order

supposedly easing the approval process and access to psychedelics.

He's been driven in that direction by concern for soldiers, veterans dealing with PTSD and the high rates of suicide among soldiers.

And that was a very deliberate,

I think, move on the part of Rick Doblin at MAPS, who was really one of the pioneers of getting research started again.

He made overtures to vets groups, to the VA, and to people like Rick Perry, former governor of Texas.

who's a big supporter now of psychedelics.

So I would say, if anything, there's more support on the right than the left.

So I don't know that it's gonna fall into the same backlash politics.

It may, if things go terribly wrong.

There's also so much university research going on, so many trials, and it's rapidly being accepted as a legitimate area of study.

There've been NIH grants to support psychedelic research.

So I don't see us on the verge of that.

I mean, people are still doing stupid things with psychedelics and there's still accidents happening.

But I think we learned, or I think a lot of people learned a lesson from the 60s, which they're powerful substances.

They have to be used with intention.

People are tending to use them more in guided situations, which really mitigates a lot of the risk.

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