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The Greengage
by Green Gage's
A Scathing Critique of Capitalism
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MDMA & the FDA: When the Drug Is Not the Treatment
Season 2 enters the thirty-eight-year campaign to return MDMA to legal therapeutic use and the regulatory question that campaign could not resolve. In August 2024, the FDA declined to approve MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD despite strong clinical outcomes. Its concerns included functional...
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Amazonian Master Plants: What the Herbarium Could Not Hold
Season 2 follows a pressed Amazonian plant into the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Collected by Richard Spruce during the 1850s, the specimen was carefully identified, dated and preserved. Its label recorded what nineteenth-century botany was equipped to measure but nothing about...
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Cannabis & Empire: The Prayer That Needed Prohibition
Season 2 continues through Safavid Persia and Mughal India, where cannabis existed simultaneously as a courtly pleasure, agricultural commodity, poetic subject, spiritual instrument and legal problem. At the centre is the Baburnama: the personal memoir in which Babur, founder of the Mughal…
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White Lotus: The Flower That Opened for the Dead
Season 2 begins on the banks of the ancient Nile, with a flower that opens at dusk and closes when the sun rises. For three thousand years, Egyptian ceremonial practitioners maintained a careful distinction between two closely related plants: the solar blue lotus and the nocturnal white lotus,...
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