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Grundig og detaljeret historisk gennemgang af forskning i psykedeliske stoffers behandlingspotentiale mod angst, depression, afhængighed, mm.
Not a very scientific analysis of the effect of psychedelics. Pollan is convinced that true meaning is found through their use, rather than brain misfirings attaching the "eureka feeling" of the brain to random thoughts. All you can really say from this book is that many psychoactive drugs appear to have no directly harmful effect on humans, and thus should be removed from the list of schedule 1 drugs (US) where they were placed during a Nixonian drug scare.
It's certainly interesting to hear others' hallucinogenic experiences, and how some of them may have resulted in shaping the culture of Silicon Valley, but a lot of the stories fall into the same tropes. I'd be much more interested in hearing more about medical and therapeutic uses than recreational, and I think Pollan misses the opportunity of opening the debate on non-medical use of these and other drugs, and the right …
Not a very scientific analysis of the effect of psychedelics. Pollan is convinced that true meaning is found through their use, rather than brain misfirings attaching the "eureka feeling" of the brain to random thoughts. All you can really say from this book is that many psychoactive drugs appear to have no directly harmful effect on humans, and thus should be removed from the list of schedule 1 drugs (US) where they were placed during a Nixonian drug scare.
It's certainly interesting to hear others' hallucinogenic experiences, and how some of them may have resulted in shaping the culture of Silicon Valley, but a lot of the stories fall into the same tropes. I'd be much more interested in hearing more about medical and therapeutic uses than recreational, and I think Pollan misses the opportunity of opening the debate on non-medical use of these and other drugs, and the right of an individual to have autonomy over their own nervous system.
