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Cannabis Koan
by Free Association Radio
Psychotherapist and ambivalent hemp user Steve Wasserman seeks to understand the koan of cannabis via literature, memoir, film, art, philosophy, self-reflection, and conversations with others.
Episodes
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12. Slip Slidin' Away
Welcome to Season Two of Cannabis Koan. I start this new season by looking at the fascinating parallel between two literary classics on addiction: Thomas De Quincey’s 1821 memoir Confessions of an Opium Eater and William S. Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical 1953 novel Junkie. Both books conclude...
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11. Will & Desire: An Interview with Erez Batat
If you had told me a few years ago when I was struggling with a cannabis dependency that the route out of my suffering at the time would involve an Israeli-American metaphysician and researcher called Erez Batat, I would’ve thought that perhaps you were talking about a psychologist, or a...
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9. Addiction
Three dumb clichés about addiction. All personally verified by yours truly.
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4. The Stairway
So let’s say you’re a middle-aged man seeking to “get into” cannabis, but not living in a country where it’s available to buy legally, and no friends or acquaintance who use the substance anymore, what strategies for acquiring the drug might you wish to follow? THE STAIRWAY The architect wanted…
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3. Like Someone In Love
Why do we habitually use mind-altering substances and strategies in ways that are not always healthy? Here's a very simple explanation which holds in some way (I believe) for all of us. -- THE DOOR Go and open the door. Maybe outside there’s a tree, or a wood, a garden, or a magic city. Go and…
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2. Teenage Dirtbag
The highs and lows of teenage dirtbag Arthur Rimbaud. -- SENSATIONS Through blue summer nights I will pass along paths, Pricked by wheat, trampling short grass: Dreaming, I will feel coolness underfoot, Will let breezes bathe my bare head. Not a word, not a thought: Boundless love surging through...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Psychotherapist and ambivalent hemp user Steve Wasserman seeks to understand the koan of cannabis via literature, memoir, film, art, philosophy, self-reflection, and conversations with others.
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Psychotherapist and ambivalent hemp user Steve Wasserman seeks to understand the koan of cannabis via literature, memoir, film, art, philosophy, self-reflection, and conversations with others.
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