{"id":101581,"date":"2020-01-29T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/mind-altering-drugs-the-magical-history-of-lsd-and-mushrooms"},"modified":"2020-01-29T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:45:19","slug":"mind-altering-drugs-the-magical-history-of-lsd-and-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/mind-altering-drugs-the-magical-history-of-lsd-and-mushrooms","title":{"rendered":"Mind-altering drugs: The magical history of LSD and mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Vocativ\/videos\/527761121198801\/\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"false\" data-autoplay=\"false\"><\/div>\n<p>About 50 years ago, scientists believed magic mushrooms and LSD held a lot of medicinal promise. So then, how did they become such a taboo to even discuss? Government officials thought that if young men were on LSD, they wouldn\u2019t want to fight in wars.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, author Michael Pollan describes the little known history of psychedelic drugs in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 50 years ago, scientists believed magic mushrooms and LSD held a lot of medicinal promise. So then, how did they become such a taboo to even discuss? Government officials thought that if young men were on LSD, they wouldn\u2019t want to fight in wars. In this video, author Michael Pollan describes the little known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}