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Cannabis Forgetting and the Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan

Contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan delivers this Avenali Lecture on the stories of four famil...  
 
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PeteKillsBats (1 week ago) Show Hide
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"What a re-enchantment of the world that would be to look around us and see that the plants, and the trees of knowledge, grow in the garden still."

Awesome.
revolutionist408 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Great Writer, Great speaker
lenarita1 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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awesome.
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I read the chapter in The Botany of Desire about Apples for class and thought it was incredibly interesting while entertaining me enough to give one of my friends the chapter print out.

During class another student says, "that was a great read, what other plants does he write about"

the teacher replies "potatoes, lima beans, and... cannabis"

Right then and there I perked up. I felt lucky such a great writer choose one of his topics to be cannabis.

Tell your friends about this great book!
dubswine (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I wish I was anything but a rock
Heck, I'd even like to be a policeman
jimscalade (2 months ago) Show Hide
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wicked combover
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There was a guy from University of Wisconin Madison who did his masters thesis on how drugs affected historical figures and histroy and they wouldn't let him graduate until he changed a lot of. It's talked about in the Journal Reason.
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lol
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On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life by F. Nietzsche was published not in 1876, but 1874!
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