Mycologists study mushrooms, and very few mycologists are household names, let alone have a Star Trek character named after them. But Paul Stamets is a truly exceptional character who has played an extraordinary role in researching, discovering and popularizing the potentially revolutionary contributions of mushrooms and other fungi to medicine, environmental repair and human consciousness. We talked about all of this as well as his unique career, his discoveries and patents, and the “stoned ape” hypothesis.
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Charley & Shelley Wininger On Healthy Aging & Sex with MDMA
Paul Gootenberg on the Global History of Drugs
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Lisa McGirr on Alcohol Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
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Martin Lee on CBD: It's a Molecule, Not a Miracle
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