721 - Can psychedelics help with mental illness? with Calum Hughes

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🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The suicide rate has been going up, more and more people are having some sort of mental illness, and the economic lockdown last year didn't help either! In this episode, Calum Hughes, Founder, and CEO of Allied Corporation came on and raise awareness on the mental health issue. We also talked about how psychedelic and cannabis/ marijuana can be used for the treatment of therapy-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use disorders. My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.4	My next guest is the CEO of a marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms company.
0:21.9	And then they're looking at all of these things from a medical perspective.
0:25.9	Turns out there's a lot of medical uses for all of these things that were previously
0:32.0	recreational drugs.
0:33.0	And there's a lot of research on this stuff.
0:34.6	So, CalM Hughes, the CEO of Ally Corp, here he is.
0:38.7	Okay, Jay, start the recording.
0:48.3	This is good.
0:50.7	So okay, what's the suicide rate in the US?
0:53.2	So I know among veterans, it's 22 veterans a day committed suicide.
0:58.0	Yeah, it's a staggering statistic.
1:01.2	And that's what the whole vision from which Ally Corp was founded was to bring an international
1:11.0	medical cannabis approach to help those who have served.
1:15.3	So military as well as police fire ambulance, folks who are suffering with PTSD to get on
1:21.8	their road back to health and wellness.
1:24.8	So it's this story is much more than you and I just talking here on this podcast.
1:31.6	There's a national epidemic that I'm trying to raise awareness to as well as how Ally
1:38.2	works into that supply chain in terms of our Columbia production, United States, imminent
1:44.0	utilization and all of the people who have served who are suffering with post-traumatic
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