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Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science

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Psychonauts Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Mike J: One character who I have been fascinated by for a really long time is called James Lee. He was actually a very normal person he was working class engineer from teaside and spent the next 20 years going around mostly Southeast Asia discovering of all kinds of different drugs. Mike's book is Psychonauts drugs and the making of the modern mind and it's out now published by Yale, listening to the History Extra podcast.

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