We plant them in flawless columns, dice them into our soups, smoke them at gatherings, and wrap them in plastic to provide for our moms at first glance; it appears we have the plant world immovably under our green thumbs. As per this PBS narrative, plants have been ordering their impact over us too. Taking into account the 2001 book of the same name by Michael Pollan, the film investigates the thought that people and tamed plants are more commonly ward than we understand.
Cannabis is a complex plant that has charmed us for centuries. This film investigates that interest from the plant's perspective. Interviewee Michael Pollan guesses that keeping in mind the end goal to spread itself; the plant has partnered itself with our race. It utilizes its psychotropic properties to make us go to phenomenal lengths, notwithstanding gambling going to prison, to develop it. Pollan analyzes us to honey bees, which unintentionally help plants spread as they continue on ahead. Alongside cannabis, he takes a gander at tulips, apples, and potatoes. We seek each of these four plants for distinctive reasons: tulips are lovely, apples are sweet, Marijuana permits us to quickly escape reality, and potatoes make great French fries.
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In the movie it tells us how and why apples have acquired the characteristics of sweetness. It is not the same as intoxication in which we want to forget our problems: sweetness is something essential to our survival. Once it was a way for us to produce enough calories to survive when food was sparse. Apples were not always sweet. Their taste varied from acidic to tart to bitter to nutlike. Pollan believes we have lost our sense of sweetness by latching onto fake tastes that resemble what our ancestors might have called sweet. Chemicals in food have taken away our ability to recognize a sweet taste. Sweetness has been domesticated just like the