Witty Historian

Maria Sabina lived quietly in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, where sacred mushroom ceremonies had been practiced for generations. Then outsiders arrived and her life, her village, and the history of psychedelics changed forever.A slow, immersive history designed for relaxed, late-night listening and sleep.

Thai Stick, Panama Red, Acapulco Gold, Colombian Gold, Maui Wowie… these were the weed names people remembered from the 1970s. But what were they actually smoking back then, where did these famous varieties come from, and why did so many of them seem to disappear?A calm, atmospheric narration style makes this ideal for long, uninterrupted listening sessions. Many listeners use these stories to relax, unwind, or fall asleep naturally.

Amsterdam became famous for cannabis without ever fully legalizing it. Its coffeeshops grew from youth centres and informal house dealers into a global symbol of Dutch tolerance, attracting millions of tourists. Even Mike Tyson and Snoop Dogg opened coffeeshops in Amsterdam. But behind the relaxed image lies a strange contradiction: coffeeshops can sell weed openly, while their suppliers still operate illegally.From the Bulldog, the Cannabis Cup and Amsterdam’s famous seed banks to heroin, Dutch drug policy, cannabis tourism and the back-door problem.. how did Amsterdam become the weed capital of the world, and does it still deserve that title today?

LSD became the face of psychedelics, but it was never the only one. Behind it sits a huge world of psychedelic drugs, from magic mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to hundreds of obscure compounds most people have never heard of. So why did LSD become the psychedelic?A historical look at how science, culture and circumstance shaped LSD’s unusual place in psychedelic history.A calm, atmospheric narration style makes this ideal for long, uninterrupted listening sessions. Many listeners use these stories to relax, unwind, or fall asleep naturally.

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Weed has changed a lot over the last 50 years, but is modern cannabis actually better than the weed people were smoking in the 1970s?We’ll explore how cannabis in the United States evolved from the marijuana culture of the 1960s and 70s to today’s high-THC weed, looking at rising potency, CBD, selective breeding, sinsemilla, indoor growing, legalization and the modern cannabis industry. And ultimately: does stronger weed actually mean better weed?

Adolf Hitler’s drug use is usually told as a simple story: methamphetamine, cocaine, opioids, injections, and a personal doctor who kept adding more.But once you look at what doctors in the 1930s and 1940s actually considered normal medicine, the story gets much stranger.This episode follows Hitler’s doctor Theodor Morell, the famous black pills, Pervitin, Eukodal, cocaine, hormones, injections and the medical system that grew around them and asks a different question:Was Hitler’s drug use actually insane by the standards of his own time?A calm, detailed history story for late-night listening.

Methadone is an opioid used to treat opioid addiction.. a contradiction with a surprisingly complicated history. From its origins in 1930s Germany to its rise as a treatment for heroin dependence, methadone became one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood drugs in modern medicine.

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What do hard drugs actually feel like when the experience goes to its absolute extreme? From losing your sense of time and body to entering completely altered states of reality, we explore what it feels like to be on drugs when the mind is pushed far beyond an ordinary high.

Bromo-DragonFLY is one of the most potent and long-lasting psychedelics ever created. Born from legitimate psychedelic research, it eventually escaped the laboratory and entered the underground drug market — where tiny dosing errors, mislabeled chemicals and a dangerously slow onset led to overdoses, amputations and deaths. A strange chapter in drug history, told as a relaxing long-form documentary for late-night listening and sleep.