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Why are tech bros embracing Psychedelics?

It's Been a Minute by NPR

May 20, 202619:22Society & Culture

Are psychedelics the next big thing? Psychedelics include the drugs LSD, magic mushrooms, peyote, and often ketamine and MDMA too, among others. And some of these drugs have a history of spiritual practice spanning mille...

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Why are tech bros embracing Psychedelics? is an episode from It's Been a Minute by NPR. Are psychedelics the next big thing? Psychedelics include the drugs LSD, magic mushrooms, peyote, and often ketamine and MDMA too, among others. And som...

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