Exploring Drugs and Culture with Mike Jay

Exploring Drugs and Culture with Mike Jay

Mike Jay is a freelance journalist and cultural historian. He is author of many books including Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind; Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century; High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science and Culture; Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic; and The Influencing Machine: James Tilly and the Air Loom. His website is https://mikejay.net/

This wide-ranging interview provides something of an overview of Mike Jays research into all aspects of drugs and culture.

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(Recorded on March 20, 2024)

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