La Prohibición va dando pasos hacia un armisticio

White Nights program with Fernando Sánchez Dragó. Antonio Escohotado presents the revised and expanded edition of The General History of Drugs, 20 years after its first publication. In this interview, he reflects on prohibitionism, secularization, the social impact of drugs, and his personal experience, from prison to LSD, with a new prologue and appendix on phenomenology. 0:10 Introduction: Presentation of The General History of Drugs 0:33 Escohotado: New revised and expanded edition 1:01 Reflection on aging and youth 2:12 New chapter: The surprise of social changes 3:08 Prohibitionism: Drugs as a social alarm in 1988-89 3:31 Social change: Less drug alarm in 2006-2007 4:24 Secularization: Unconscious response to prohibitionism 5:34 Secularization explained: Accepting finitude and freedom 7:01 Armistice in the war on drugs 7:41 Experience at the UN: Decline of anti-drug repression 9:39 Progress towards compassion in drug policies 10:29 Origin in prison: The History of Drugs and the counterculture 11:56 Ibiza and police persecution in the 1970s 13:33 Cuenca prison: Conditions for Writing the Book 2:08 PM Conviction for Impossible Attempt and Collaboration with Justice 5:31 PM Prison as an Opportunity to Order His Life 6:19 PM The God of Acids: Conversations with Albert Hofmann 7:06 PM Definition of Drug: Substance that Overcomes the Body 7:50 PM LSD Trance: Emotional Intensity and Loss of Language 8:54 PM Allen Ginsberg: Brains Destroyed by Drugs 9:15 PM LSD vs. Alcohol: Loss of Reason as an Experience 22:01 Literature and Drugs: New Ways of Knowing 23:19 Drugs in the 19th Century: Use Out of Necessity and Poverty 24:16 Pleasure and Fear: Effects of Drugs According to Jünger 25:52 Manichaeism: Loss of Dualities in Altered States 27:34 History of Drugs: Sacred and Scientific Ambiguity 29:04 Hofmann: Chemistry as a Way to Explore the Invisible 30:46 Psychiatric Use of LSD: Recovering Psychic Contents 32:04 CIA and LSD: Interest in Unconventional Warfare 33:47 Hollywood and LSD: Popularization in the Late 1950s 34:52 LSD as an Aphrodisiac for Women 36:01 The Brotherhood of Eternal Love: Diffusion of LSD 37:31 Counterculture: Influence of Marcuse and Norman Brown 39:23 The Enemies of Commerce: Critique of Marxism 41:18 Chaos and Order: Disorder as Self-Production 43:20 Critique of Red Reason: Pre-Marxist Origins 44:55 Liberalism: Embracing the New Without Fear 46:08 LSD and Quantum Physics: Disintegration of Categories 47:39 Dangers of LSD: Need for Preparation 48:39 Overcoming Dualisms: Subject-Object, Mind-Body 50:21 McKenna's Theory: Drugs and Human Evolution 51:09 The Eleusinian Way: Substances in Initiation Rites 52:57 Hofmann: Drugs Not as an End, but as a Means 53:40 Hofmann on the Afterlife: Pantheism and the Spiritual Element 55:39 Escohotado: Death as the Cessation of Centrality psychic 56:42 Closing: The General History of Drugs as a classic Official channel of Antonio Escohotado. The writer has published numerous works on philosophy, sociology, and history—never as separate categories—among which stand out A General History of Drugs (1989), Chaos and Order (1999), and the trilogy The Enemies of Commerce (with its first volume published in 2008). ALL HIS WORKS AVAILABLE AT: WWW.LAEMBOSCADURA.COM