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Hamilton Morris’s Web Series ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia’ Dana Lavoie Hamilton Morris, left, in Haiti, investigating the zombie phenomenon.

Hamilton Morris’s Web Series ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia’

Mr. Morris, a 24-year-old writer and filmmaker, clearly isn’t satisfied with the popular models for understanding drugs. The best-known thinkers on the subject — Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary and their successor, Daniel Pinchbeck — have married an understanding of psychedelics to spiritual ideologies and the loose, forgiving analysis of the soft sciences. But Mr. How The Mind Really Works: 10 Counterintuitive Psychology Studies. Filming the rabbit hole. I’ve just managed to watch a few editions of Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia, an online documentary series about mind altering drugs, and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the programmes.

Filming the rabbit hole

If you think hearing about other people’s drug experiences is about as interesting as watching someone staring at the wallpaper, you’ll be pleased to hear that the series also delves deeply into the cultural and scientific background of each psychoactive substance. The presenter, Hamilton Morris, investigates a range of drug related topics – from a piece on the legendary ‘zombie powder’ of Haiti to an investigation into psychedelic truffles, to the story of an ex-Goth stripper who got involved with the biggest underground LSD laboratory ever built.