Cannabis Forgetting and the Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan

[@sallyreno6296]

I knew Angela Overy. Wonderful woman. I thought of her immediately as soon as he started talking about aptonyms.

[@anchorman0890]

this is probably the most interesting point of view on this subject ive ever seen

[@paulonius42]

Thank you to the UC system for posting this! I'm reading "The Botany of Desire" now, and it's great to have his speaking voice to go along with his written word. He speaks so simply yet not simplistically. Even though he's lecturing, he comes across as a storyteller. Groovy! :)

[@mosesxiaomin]

Truly fascinating lecture!

[@KevoRidesFit]

the theory of Forgetting that he explained is truly interesting.

[@AlanMusselman]

Thanks for speaking up!

[@mruniversummojolizar]

i learned a lot and can argue better against critics ! thanks a lot !

[@MindofaJedi]

I loved the film of this book because it was very entertaining and can expose many people to this subject matter who never would have picked up the book . I bought both . I think all the potheads should let out of jail and all Monsanto employees should take their place .

[@c7v]

If the video keeps stopping.All you have to do is hit 'pause' and let the video bufferer for a while. You will see the red bar move ahead of the marker, that means video is loading. Then you can have a smooth uninteruppted viewing experience. Just for those who didnt know!!

[@daviel6595]

1 of top 5 cannabis vids out there

[@SensoryOssuary]

good lecture. it's also interesting that hemp shares a perfect ratio of essential fatty acids with the human body. there's a lot of interesting natural symmetry. although i agree that "scientists don't understand consciousness yet," i also believe that hallucinogenic research is perhaps our best opportunity to do so...

[@BryanB1300]

nicely done

[@GrimReefer]

Amazing lecture.

[@Jefferdaughter]

Is it 'the humingbird's desire for red' that drives the evolution of the flowers that hummingbirds feed upon - or have the humingbirds learned that red flowers often bear the food they seek?

[@whiff1962]

Those plants that man has wrought change upon.

[@eatenbytheweasel8366]

When I first began to grow reefer, I had the sense that the plant had made itself attractive to humans. I believe that reefer and people have the longest relationship of any plant. The most important commodity primitive man needed was cordage.Hemp was by far the best source and while retting the fiber, one would soon have hashish (and entertainment). Millet to attract primitive chickens like pheasant. Man would have learned about cultivating plants FIRST with cannabis.

[@robertw2930]

The plants wanted us to eat their fruits. It a vehicle to carry seeds. We eat seeds then shit them out somewhere on the Earth ,but now with modern sewers we have to manually plant more stuff. Also, Hemp is not really a weed since it needs seeds to propagate to have a next generation unlike weeds that do it by root propagation (IF IM WRONG IT CAUSE I JUST MADE IT UP HOPING i'M RIGHT)

[@LRapper1]

31.00 mins on is where Micheal is on to some deep thinking and true history of culture based upon evolution of culture.

[@Thraxzz]

It is one of the most important parts of the "Tree Of Life"...

[@jsanchez1pr]

It is just really cool!

[@Anomki]

Also see: "The Union: The Business Behind Getting High" and The Future of Psychedelic and Medical Marijuana Research. - Andrew Weil M.D. ‎"The war may not be quite over but any stigma still left lingering around cannabis consumption today is largely restricted to out of date and increasingly unenforced pieces of legislation. So indelibly stamped on our culture has cannabis become that it must now rank as the most popular and controversial plant on the planet." - Nick Jones

[@josephortizgarcia]

Wow!!!!!!!!!! Who is this guy?!!!!!!

[@TheaDragonSpirit]

@Chiudeu - so where do we get that natural function from? it must come from somewhere? If you say we just do it? Thats not logical to me. What is the reason we naturally eat food and where does this natural information come from?

[@lennytron001]

you must not have even listened to the whole thing, this guy is saying some genius shit

[@Hashishin13]

Nothing has been evolving for "longer" then anything else, we all share a common ancestor. Maybe in the sense that we *humans* have only been around for 1 million or 100,000 years most plants have been around as the same species for longer then us, but species are just stepping stones in evolution.

[@eatenbytheweasel8366]

As cultures evolve, they adopt better inebriants. Northern plains Indians used to eat flag bulbs to trip but if you ate too many, ya checked out. When the Ghost Dance and peyote arrived, no one ate the bulbs anymore.

[@robertw2930]

is the blue lotus a bulb ?

[@whiff1962]

This notion that plants survive and flourish in the human world by enticing its caretaker, either as food or drug, is compelling. The human animal, indeed, figures prominently in plant evolution and survival, however, this is not to say that the plant is equipped, by dint of its respective properties, to continue on. Plant traits are selected by humans, and so, it is human agency-not plant, per se-that is the driving force of plant variation and hardiness.

[@straube819]

Michael Pollan is great and I love his writing, but man does it hurt to look at him with that comb over.

[@colloredbrothers]

Im re-watching it now and i think you might me right altough: plants have no conciousness? i have to counter that with watch?v=-EdNvI9TMA8 these expiriments (watch all parts)very clearly prove in some way that plants do have conciousness or am i wrong? (maybe a diffrent tipe of counciousness. (dont mind the spelling pls)

[@ReX0r]

On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life by F. Nietzsche was published not in 1876, but 1874!

[@MindofaJedi]

@dinamicjoker Same title , Botany of Desire . I got the book and DVD together .

[@TheaDragonSpirit]

Just for anyone who will go... the reason the bee gets the polan is because the plant is red... well I like red but I don't eat a berry or take it because its red... we learned to do most of this from watching animals right... an most of what humans have learned is from other humans... how does a bee which always forgets know how to get polan and turn it to honey... I believe this information comes from else where a spiritual radio signal you may say... :)

[@NWforager]

I dont think they are competing . Cant we learn form Both Pollan and McKenna ?

[@eatenbytheweasel8366]

Shakespear was a pothead. In the sonnet he mentions "that notable weed outside my kitchen window".

[@robertw2930]

Lincoln also said that he loved to put the cannabis flowers in his pipe

[@beginner_electric_guitar]

At 31:29 is where I sort of disagree. It was more the listeners who took pot in the late 60's, then accepted the music, after listening to it, this helped acid-rock or jazz based music more into the mainstream. It wasn't just the musicians using pot. Pot use is very limited for performing of musical improvisation, It has it's uses in music in general. The performance of music, good music, is a very disciplined process. Pot may interfere with that process.

[@HansonZoe]

I find it hysterical that this video has 420 likes.

[@TheaDragonSpirit]

@TheaDragonSpirit - SORRY I WAS WRONG THERE! It does work on MS! I got that wrong just like it works well on cancer!

[@TheaDragonSpirit]

@Chiudeu haha it takes large amounts of wine to make me go dizzy but a glass a day is suppose to be good for you :) If weed can be taken and not be bad for you... question is... why is it illegal... why not just go if you eat more then this it is dangerous like they do with most drugs?

[@TheaDragonSpirit]

@Chiudeu why do you get hungry? an how do you know your hungry? how do you naturally know what foods would work for you... by this i mean how does the bee know it needs polan? An that it can eat polan? Or take it to make honey? How does your body know with out been told know how to break food down? It can either have learned how to do it somehow or its pre programmed... where does this programming come from??

[@yerk3]

I remember hearing about a urologist named Dr. Cockburn.

[@worthmoremusic]

Yes he did....it was based on his book

[@colloredbrothers]

ofcourse we can, peace

[@jaksngreen]

Good vid. Don't know how I found it! lol

[@hornedlobster]

6 people are lame.. keeping this video at 420 likes with over 60,000 views would've been legendary.

[@tiigran]

the last 5 minutes very important (at ~56:20): the original sin founded as anti-pagan attempt to keep people from using artificial chemical stimulation -- but most interesting is that the punishment involved remembering by making mankind remember the act as the original sin

[@larrykaplan9012]

The speaker has forgotten that some people can get high without drugs. As an author, this is a grave omission.

[@dannoffs]

He talks about that at decent length in the book

[@cheythiya]

44:00-- cf amos gitai-- "if you want to survive you must forget"

[@AxisMundiOnline]

Started off very skeptical at his imposing consciousness onto plants... even poetically, I don't like it. Still, from about 20 mins onwards, it is absolutely remarkable.

[@ThompsonSeedless]

Dallas Raines a channel 7 weatherman

[@mrolof91]

Even though how many scientists claiming THC's and cannaboids ups and downs, it is still a drug and affects people in different ways. I smoked about 1 gram per day for more than 2 years, but for some years ago i quit. Mostly because i felt the addiction, but also because i had harder times learning new things. I'm not saying you should smoke or not, its up to each person to decide if its good for them or not.

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

Good stuff! Clever, witty, and insightful. He needs a better hair stylist, though, like many academicians. Alas.

[@robertw2930]

did he say throve?

[@stevensteven2663]

Past tense of thrive.

[@TheJeffreycooper]

this dude's head is so shiny it practicaly sparkles.

[@thethikboy]

He presents teleological reasons (desire) for evolution. Not Darwinian

[@VeryFaded420]

Weed is the spark to the brain

[@jaksngreen]

Intro ends at 3 mins.

[@robertw2930]

Do I want to forget faces I see all day? Unless, I want to put them in my spank bubble.

[@tsunamirising]

Someone "forgot" the comma in the title. "Cannabis Forgetting" is a terrible and very different thing.

[@robertw2930]

Least it not Forgetting Cannabis

[@whiff1962]

I do strongly disagree with the notion of legitimization through legalization, as this certainly insinuates the state as the controlling authority. A true legitimization, I believe, would entail a paradigmatic shift in how culture relates to the plant, and that would be a seismic shift from the present course of prohibition and persecution.

[@hmmm232323]

Seems like there's an easy solution to that problem....

[@123idontcareok]

pollan's frontal lobe looks ginormous with that haircut

[@samann9]

40:00 chocannabis

[@shike67]

nice comb over :)

[@Hashishin13]

Introduction ends at 3 mins

[@XxmattitudexX]

hes so funny you know the man grows mad trees in his yard but dosent want to admit hes a smoker

[@NWforager]

Haha, he looks about 20 years younger now that he cut off the hairdo =D .

[@AllSpeed]

wanna know what its like to be high, smoke a joint

[@reforest4fertility]

Hmm, Huxley's quote "is dark"? Sure, blame the messenger, blame the quote itself. Or does Huxley's quote reveal the darkness, how much we've darkened life? Can we bring light back in2 life, even bring life back 2 life? Please, for posterity! That was at 24:00. Then at about 34:50 he as much as says human improvisation would be nowhere without THC. Maybe we do have 2 forget & forgo our hold on reality to break the shell & open out into the actual new, but of course there R other ways out o cage

[@aliceborealis]

@slade420 Indeed!

[@slippyfists]

go bears!

[@wahnano]

Cannabis Sativa. Man Under-Stand :0)

[@Dentist_Strangelove]

Does he know that there's corn syrup in that Vitamin Water?

[@josephortizgarcia]

@slade420 Why you ain't got no patience with people?!

[@reforest4fertility]

Stand under or you don't really understand.

[@MelanieH1422]

@acousticaptitude Give the guy a fucking break, he is giving a public speech!

[@indianfoodvlog561]

Nda and tes form

[@zwedanez]

strange statment that the thc should cause instent amnesia.

[@hmmm232323]

Heh, well said.

[@omegrown420]

As if he didn't have a cannabis plant in his garden lol

[@iGabe]

06:13 "We have a bad habit in the humanities of assuming the sciences have the last word."

[@acousticaptitude]

Anyone else irritated with him for saying "uhm" like forty seven thousand times?

[@bondservant4Him]

thc is only active wene heated up so how could it be a plants defense to predators unless the animal lights it up?!?!? wow this dude failed on that one

[@tenayaguevara88]

30:42. heheh. "60's literature that is kind of DOOBIE-us"

[@mistarcraw]

lol

[@nerad1994]

420 likes? sorry I cant like it ;)

[@colloredbrothers]

give me Terence Mckenna this guy sucks. instant forgetting? pls dude no understanding what so ever pls search Terence Mckenna

[@davejones4740]

A load of crap about nothing really.

[@LJ7000]

lol