
K is a wonder drug. K is addictive. K is transcendental. Beware the K-hole. Matthew Perry drowned in his hot tub while on ketamine.
Six years ago Michael Pollan published How to Change Your Mind, a brain-bending bestseller (made into a recent Netflix series) about how scientists have been using psychedelics to heal depression and mental trauma. For many, the book was a shocker after LSD, magic mushrooms, and MDMA’s half century of being vilified as corruptors of youth—not to mention targets of the “war on drugs” declared by the likes of Richard Nixon and Nancy Reagan. This “war” included an infamous 1987 TV ad that showed a dour man holding an egg and saying: “This is your brain.” He cracks the egg and the insides drop…