Cannabis Forgetting and the Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan

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Contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan delivers this Avenali Lecture on the stories of four familiar plant species: the apple,the tulip, the potato, and cannabis. [1/2003] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7048]

Channel: Education
Uploaded: February 8, 2008 at 2:25 am
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Length: 00:59:48
Rating: 4.84
Views: 8508

Tags: Botany plant apple tulip potato cannabis botany of desire

Video Comments:
grimysoldja (August 26, 2008 at 2:56 am)
thc is good for your spirit man!
skunkmix10 (July 25, 2008 at 7:26 pm)
thc dont make you..umm..errr..um oh what was i going to say?
zwedanez (July 7, 2008 at 11:08 am)
strange statment that the thc should cause instent amnesia.
mruniversummojolizar (May 26, 2008 at 12:44 am)
i learned a lot and can argue better against critics !

thanks a lot !
bnblock (May 22, 2008 at 9:44 am)
Does he know that there's corn syrup in that Vitamin Water?
WeeWeeJumbo (May 22, 2008 at 1:59 am)
Good stuff! Clever, witty, and insightful.

He needs a better hair stylist, though, like many academicians. Alas.
sirspocksalot (May 13, 2008 at 1:39 am)
Does he by any chance work in Texas? That'd be too good.
tiigran (May 12, 2008 at 3:04 pm)
the last 5 minutes very important (at ~56:20): the original sin founded as anti-pagan attempt to keep people from using artificial chemical stimulation -- but most interesting is that the punishment involved remembering by making mankind remember the act as the original sin
mosesxiaomin (February 18, 2008 at 2:38 am)
Truly fascinating lecture!
gr1d0 (February 16, 2008 at 9:04 pm)
crowd looks fucking ENTHRALLED