Michael Pollan is one of TIME magazine’s top 50 most influential people in the US, he is a reporter, writer and 'psychonaut'.

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His books The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire questions the way the world thinks about food and he is now doing the same for psychedelics and psychoactive plants. His book How To Change Your Mind and a new Netflix series by the same name explore his belief that psychedelics are a tool to understanding the mind.

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