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Aubrey Marcus Podcast

Cannabis Expert: Cannabis is a Secret Psychedelic | Ryan Sprague #512

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Aubrey Marcus

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4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Cannabis expert Ryan Sprague completely reframes how we understand this ancient plant medicine. This isn't a stoner conversation with trip reports and munchie recipes—it's a deep dive into intentional plant work, nervous system regulation, and personal transformation.

Ryan Sprague is an intentional cannabis coach & educator, and the founder of Breathe With Cannabis and Highly Optimized, where he teaches conscious cannabis use, personal evolution & the psychedelic potential of the plant to support transformation and healing.


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0:00.0

I've always been a collector since I was a kid, whether it was sports cards, magic cards,

0:06.0

comics, stamps, or coins, and as I've gotten older, I've transitioned to collecting original art.

0:13.0

I also believe in precious metals as one of the safest and most stable stores of wealth.

0:19.0

The impossibly cool thing about my new company Metal Mark as part of the Aubrey Marcus

0:24.6

Collective is that it combines both of these things that I love.

0:29.6

Fully assayable and recoverable, fractional gold notes,

0:34.6

paired with impossibly beautiful, and collectible limited edition art

0:40.3

so if for some reason you don't like the art anymore or the art loses its value

0:45.3

you can always just keep the gold if any other class of art loses its value all

0:51.3

you are left with is paper or in the case of NFTs, pixels. And if you

0:56.3

are just starting and collecting gold, instead of having to drop $2,700 on a coin like this,

1:03.1

you can get in for less than a Benjamin.

1:19.0

Is Paranoia a feature of cannabis, or is it a bug in cannabis?

1:20.3

Great question.

1:25.5

I'm so glad we started with this because to me it's a feature, but it's often seen as a bug when it comes to the normal public because we've never been

1:27.7

taught how to utilize this plant. We've never been taught anything even about emotional regulation,

1:32.7

mindset. I mean, if you think about what we're taught in even high school and even college,

1:36.9

it's a bunch of random information that really doesn't teach you how to learn. It teaches you

1:41.4

what to learn. And so when people get paranoia from cannabis,

1:45.8

what's the typical thing they do? Oh, cannabis gave me paranoia. But really what it is, and again,

1:51.5

you can choose to see it that way if you want to. But in my experience, it doesn't really lead

1:55.9

anywhere that's useful because now you're just projecting onto a plant. Like the plant didn't

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