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; This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond; 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.
00:00 Introduction
07:49 Drug use in animals
15:01 Primary drugs unique to cultures
19:09 Social status and drugs
26:15 Religious use of drugs
32:34 Learning to use a drug
40:54 Drugs in the arts and literature
45:43 Drugs and ritual magic
48:45 Narcotics
55:39 Conclusion
Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish.
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(Recorded on March 20, 2024)
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