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Acid Test: How psychedelics shaped the modern world

Acid Test: How psychedelics shaped the modern world

Released Sunday, 2nd July 2023
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Acid Test: How psychedelics shaped the modern world

Acid Test: How psychedelics shaped the modern world

Acid Test: How psychedelics shaped the modern world

Acid Test: How psychedelics shaped the modern world

Sunday, 2nd July 2023
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Psychedelic drugs are regularly in the news as a fresh generation of scientists researches them. Who knows how they might be used in future – but, historically, how have they shaped the world already? The negatives of substance use are obvious – but what other impacts are there? From ceremonial plant medicines to the war on drugs; their cultural significance cannot be understated. 

Dr Kasia Tomasiewicz is joined in The Bunker by Mike Jay to discuss his new book Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind. 

“If you want to know how drugs change your own perception, there’s only one way of doing it.”

“Pharmacies would sell products called ‘Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup’ which would be full of morphine and opium.”

“Magic Mushrooms were ancient and sacred, people used them for spiritual experiences for millennia.”

www.patreon.com/bunkercastBook Linkhttps://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/psychonauts/?k=9780300257946

Written and presented by Kasia Tomasiewicz. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.

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