History on Drugs Podcast

This is a podcast about drugs, history, and the endlessly fascinating interaction of the two. Sometimes we'll talk drugs. Sometimes we'll talk history. Sometimes we'll talk about both. This podcast is connected to the Substack newsletter of the same name.https://isaaccampos.substack.com/ isaaccampos.substack.com

History on Drugs Podcast is a history podcast hosted by Isaac Campos, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Isaac Campos hosts History on Drugs Podcast, a history show with 18 episodes published.

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  A Strange Trip into Terence McKenna and Psychedelics, with John O'Connor

  Apr 14, 20261h 27mS0

  <p>My latest guest is John O’Connor, author of A Short, Strange Trip: An Untold Story of Magic Mushrooms, Madness, and a Search for the Meaning of Life in the Amazon, which was published today (April 14, 2026).</p><p>This is the story of Terence McKenna, arguably the single most important figure in popularizing psilocybin mushrooms in the late twentieth century United States. In the early 1970s, McKenna traveled to the Colombian Amazon in search of psychedelics and, in the end, believed he’d discovered the key to saving humanity. Though he is perhaps better known for his “stoned ape theory...

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  Graham Harding and the History of Champagne in the UK

  Feb 2, 20261h 19mS0

  <p>My latest conversation is with Graham Harding, author of Champagne in Britain, 1800-1914: How the British Transformed a French Luxury (Bloomsbury, 2023).</p><p>Graham and I met last spring in London, where we talked about the history of champagne during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with the fascinating history of “branding,” which came of age during the same period. Graham has not only studied branding with academic rigor, but also lived it during a long career in marketing and advertising prior to becoming an academic. Additionally, he has published A Wine Miscellany: A Jaunt Through the Whimsical Worl...

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  Drugs in the Netherlands, with Stephen Snelders

  Nov 1, 20251h 16mS0

  <p>My latest guest is Stephen Snelders of Utrecht University. Stephen and I met up in Amsterdam last March to talk about drugs, history, and the Netherlands. A native of Amsterdam, Stephen watched up close as the various drug scenes in that great city evolved during the 1980s. This helped turn him into a drug historian, initially studying the history of LSD in his country, and eventually publishing Drug Smuggler Nation: Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920-1995 (Manchester University Press, 2021).</p><p>We talk about the 1960s and Amsterdam, the development of the famous Dutch system of cannabis “tolerance,” the deep root...

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  Government Secrets, Existential Risk, and Higher Education, with Matthew Connelly

  Sep 14, 20251h 13mS0

  <p>This week’s guest is Matthew Connelly, professor of international and global history at Columbia University. This interview was especially fun for me because it was Matt who, back at the University of Michigan in the 1990s, turned me into a historian. My whole way of doing things has been indelibly shaped by him.</p><p>Matt is of course better known as a great and prolific scholar. His publications include a first monograph on the Algerian War for Independence, his highly-influential book on the history of international population control, and his terrific, recent work on the U.S. go...

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  Waging War on the War on Drugs, with Ethan Nadelmann

  Aug 10, 20251h 50mS0

  <p>This week’s guest is drug-policy-reform legend Ethan Nadelmann. Ethan led the charge against the War on Drugs beginning in the 1980s, first as a professor at Princeton and then as the head of the Lindesmith Center (which became the Drug Policy Alliance). He’s published various influential works, including the books Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement and Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations (with Peter Andreas), along with many important articles and even a podcast.</p><p>When we write the history of the end (hopefully) of the War...

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