Michael Pollan on psychedelia: ‘Everything I once was had been liquefied’

The Financial Times (UK), May 21, 2018

The writer Michael Pollan is best known for his advice, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” His bestselling books (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Cooked) have served up large helpings of food for thought — about the health claims of packaged meals, the iniquities of industrial farming, and the joy a home-cooked family dinner can bring. In his seventh decade, however, Pollan has become fascinated by a new subject — psychedelic drugs. So when I meet him at his home in Berkeley, California, we talk at length not about organic produce or slow-braised pork but his recent and first real experience of tripping on LSD and magic mushrooms. Read the whole article here.