Michael Pollan
@michaelpollan
Author of This is Your Mind on Plants; How to Change Your Mind; Cooked; In Defense of Food; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; The Botany of Desire and Second Nature.
Opinion | I Hate, Therefore I Am - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opi…
Why MAHA is phony. Important piece: nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTOpinion
Don't read with your breakfast. At an Iowa Pork Plant, Piles of Dead Pigs and Wafting Sulphur Dioxide sentientmedia.org/iowa-pork-plan…
Inside the Church of Gaia’s DEA exemption: 5 Questions for attorney Taylor Loyden themicrodose.substack.com/p/inside-the-c…
(27) Psilocybin’s effects on human cell and mouse aging; Cancer patients treated with psilocybin show decreased depression and anxiety symptoms themicrodose.substack.com/p/psilocybins-…
(23) A New Psychedelic Mushroom Gets the Artistic Treatment themicrodose.substack.com/p/a-new-psyche…
And now: A thread regarding my thoughts on "1.5°C"--not only as a Paris Agreement target, but also re: relevance to recent #climate events & overlaps (or not) w/geophysical realities. (This was originally written as a response to a journalist, who used excerpts in their article.)
The Real Story Of Whole Grain Bread with Michael Pollan + Dan Barber | 231 - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=gRBQUW…
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout-f…
Raj Patel starts with a critique of Marx’s utopia, moves through mosquito-ridden rice fields, and ends with Black Panther breakfasts. Somehow it all coheres. Original and deeply considered. doi.org/10.1080/030661…
Have you had a challenging psyxchedelic experience? | Psychedelic Challenges Study psychedelicchallenges.org
Don Quixote, DMT, psychedelic tourism: 5 Questions for literature professor Alberto Ribas-Casasayas themicrodose.substack.com/p/don-quixote-…
Yesterday, Trump illegally cut off funding for public schools, precipitating a huge crisis for thousands of schools. This is a result of the recent Supreme Court ruling neutering federal courts. 1/ A dystopian new reign of lawlessness is likely coming. Let me explain.
Breaking News: The Trump administration declined to release nearly $7 billion in school funding that helps pay for after-school programs and other services. nyti.ms/4lcKvlQ
Today, $ATAI announced outstanding Phase 2b data for BPL-003 (5-MeO-DMT). In parallel, core shareholders – including myself and pharma company @ferring – demonstrated conviction by investing $50 million together with top-tier biotech funds. I firmly believe psychedelics have…
Great news and yet another significant step forward for psychedelic medicine! Today, @atai_life and @BeckleyPsytech announced (very!) positive topline results from the long-awaited Phase 2b trial of a single dose of BPL‑003 (5-MeO-DMT) in 193 patients living with…
Compass announces Phase 3 synthetic psilocybin results; DEA moves two psychoactive research chemicals to Schedule I; and New Zealand Ministry of Health approves prescription psilocybin themicrodose.substack.com/p/compass-anno…
Check out this wonderful memoir from my friend Aggie Murch: Harvesting History: While Farming the Flats: Murch, Muriel A.: 9781960573698: Amazon.com: Books amazon.com/Harvesting-His…
RFK working very hard to make sure psychedelics get approved 'within 12 months'. Well, if you're a psychedelic drug developer I suggest you make your application now!
Psychedelic therapies show real promise for veterans and others battling trauma. We’re accelerating clinical trials at @US_FDA with urgency—and working to ensure safe, science-based access within 12 months. Some therapies can’t wait.