Altered States: Minds, Drugs, and Culture

Do you think think you’re doing drugs when you have a cup of coffee? What actually happens with your cup o’ Joe? What about chocolate? Be it weed or alcohol, do you know how these drugs affect you? Here, pharmacologist Dr. Ben Sessa describes vice and medicine, substances that are contextually legal and not, natural and synthetic, and antidepressants. He’ll give you a tour of substances that people use to alter their mental states.