Academy Research

The apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato are the stars of the film adaptation of journalist Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, The Botany of Desire. The two-hour documentary, which takes the same name, also features Pollan himself. It begins in the author’s own garden before the film journeys to the potato fields of South America, the apple orchards of Kazakhstan, the tulip markets of Amsterdam, and to a medical marijuana hot house. These four famous plants share histories with corresponding human desires—for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control over food production
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