History of Marijuana and Psychedelics | 1001: Intro to Everything podcast #10 with Joseph Spillane

Professor Joseph F. Spillane is a professor in the History department at the University of Florida. He has published Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States1, co-authored A History of Modern Criminal Justice, and co-edited Federal Drug Control: The Evolution of Policy and Practice and Prison Work: A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections. His most recent monograph, Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform, appeared in 2014 from the Johns Hopkins University Press.

OUTLINE:

0:24 Intro

2:21 History of Marihuana 

6:22 Natural vs Artificial drugs

9:58 Uses of marihuana

17:10 Illegilizing Marihuana

28:15 Road to legalization in the U.S

41:48 How opponents of legalization argue

47:08 Facts don't matter

49:25 History of psychedelics

51:03 LSD: Discovery, medical use

54:00 Counterculture movement

1:01:15 Counterculture drug use

1:05:35 Research on LSD for Federal Intelligence

1:09:21 Psychedelics in the modern era

1:14:27 Advice for adults

1:17:19 Advice for students

1:19:44 Gratefulness

EPISODE LINKS:

Dr. Spillane’s website: https://josephspillane.wordpress.com/

Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States: https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_OQycfkoasC&pg=PP4&lpg=PP4&dq=spillane+cocaine&source=bl&ots=mgMZYcO0xW&sig=9NbNB1SK__lXopJORb26VswphSQ&hl=en&ei=hB1MTvK_FvCJsALB8Im9CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q&f=false

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