Aaron & Andras - Cute Animals Doing Drugs
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🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Animals are known to indulge in psychoactive compounds. Humans are not the only species who like to become intoxicated. From bees drinking to fermented nectars to reindeer of the Siberian tundra eating Amanita muscaria mushrooms, Aaron and Andras find a creative way to start a conversation about drug policy, harm reduction, and psychedelics. Aaron and Andras have started a company that produces tshirts depicting cute animals doing drugs. While this may seem like a way to promote drug use using cute animals, Aaron and Andras have a deeper meaning, which is about starting a conversation and trying to shift the cultural narrative about drug use. 
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Show Notes/Links
- Cute Animals Doing Drugs
- Coupon Code: PSYCHEDELICSTODAY25
- Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness
- Shamanic Origins of Christmas
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About Cute Animals Doing Drugs
Cute Animals Doing Drugs was created by two friends to raise awareness around these issues, support drug policy reform, and encourage honest conversations about drugs in everyday life. We believe individuals have the right to sovereignty over their own consciousness and that there is no reason to deny any adult the safe and beneficial use of psychoactive substances. We believe social and political change can start from the bottom-up. Our apparel serves as a conversation-starter and a fun, unique way to show your support for an increasingly important social issue. Cute Animals Doing Drugs is here to call attention to these issues, support psychedelic research, encourage drug policy reform, and promote cognitive liberty for all. We also donate 10% of our pre-tax profits to MAPS, the Drug Policy Alliance, and other drug-related non-profit organizations. Check out our current line of apparel here.
Andras L
Andras L is a cofounder of Cute Animals Doing Drugs Apparel, an initiative intended to help shift societal perceptions around drug use. Cute Animals builds on his previous work as a director on the board of Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, where he advocated for the advancement of harm reduction and evidence-based drug policy reform. He is especially focused on reversing harmful policies and combating stigma. Andras graduated with an M.Sc. in Primary Care Research from McGill University and now researches infectious disease.
Aaron
Aaron co-founded Cute Animals Doing Drugs Apparel with Andras in the summer of 2017. He finished his BA at McGill University in 2014 and has since been traveling the world and working online. Aaron has a longstanding fascination with psychedelics, and is particularly interested in the subjective elements of psychedelics experience as well as the potential broad social impact of mainstreaming psychedelic use, especially in spiritual contexts. He writes about personal development, spirituality, and psychedelic experience at freedomandfulfilment.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to psychedelics today. My name is Kyle. Joe wasn't able to make this call for the |
| 0:16.9 | interview, so here I am doing the introduction and the interview today. So for this interview, |
| 0:22.5 | I had the pleasure of speaking with Andreas Lenart and Aaron Nesmith Beck from cute animals doing |
| 0:30.2 | drugs, which is a clothing and apparel company. They sell t-shirts with cute little animals doing drugs. Pretty self-explanatory. |
| 0:41.1 | Andreas and Aaron reached out to us just to tell us about their project a few months ago, |
| 0:47.4 | saying that they've created this t-shirt company and just wanted to get the word out there. |
| 0:52.2 | And we thought it was kind of interesting. |
| 1:00.2 | They had some cool little t-shirts design, one with, you know, maybe a sloth smoking a joint, |
| 1:03.6 | a reindeer prancing upon a mushroom cap. |
| 1:07.7 | So it's an interesting way to maybe start a conversation. |
| 1:10.9 | If you're in the psychedel community, you don't really know how to talk about this stuff. It seems like what Aaron and Andreas are doing is just like a creative way to get a |
| 1:17.9 | conversation started. So here's like a little bit about their company. I'm just going to read |
| 1:22.9 | from their about page for a little bit. So drug conception is universal. |
| 1:28.4 | Like humans, animals often alter their consciousness with psychoactive substances. |
| 1:33.2 | Did you know that cats use catnips? |
| 1:36.1 | Catnip to get intoxicated? |
| 1:37.9 | Reindeer eat the aminita muscaria, the magic mushroom. |
| 1:42.0 | The little red toads do stew with the white little dots. |
| 1:45.0 | The Jaguar in the Amazon eats vines used to make ayahuasca. |
| 1:50.1 | Pigs consume truffles that contain cannabinoids. |
| 1:54.2 | Mammals and insects alike consume fermented fruit, sap, and nectar to get drunk. |
| 1:59.2 | Dolphins enjoy psychoactive effects of certain poisonous pufferfish |
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