Eben Britton: The History of Cannabis and Using It To Reach Your "Highest" Self
Align Podcast
Aaron Alexander
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Should cannabis be illegal? Is cannabis simply an escape? Does smoking it frequently makes us a “dud”? Should there be guilt and shame around using it? Or is cannabis a healing mechanism that allows you the opportunity to go deeper within yourself and become more in tune with the world around you?
In this episode, gust Eben Britton shares the history of cannabis, the truth behind cannabis, and how we can use it with the right intentions to seek a higher perspective and return to our true self.
Eben is a former American football offensive tackle who played six seasons in the NFL. His football career provided him with an in-depth, firsthand experience of dealing with immense pain and trauma which led him to learn and cultivate practices that allowed him to heal and restore. This is what led him to cannabis and since then he has become an expert on the topic. Cannabis has allowed him to seek hidden truths and bring him back to himself.
What we discuss:
4:30 - How Eben became a cannabis advocate
9:00 - Why cannabis is one of the most misunderstood plants
10:00 - Cannabis history, war on drugs, it's useful effects.
20:00 - The endocannabinoid system in our bodies
23:45 - The history of weed
27:00 - Propaganda and demonizing cannabis, why hemp farming was shut down, and the underworld that was created.
35:00 - Cannabis mythology
41:00 - My experience with cannabis vs. alcohol
43:00 - How cannabis is a mirror showing you a reflection of yourself
46:00 - Why cannabis isn’t always an escape
48:00 - How cannabis associates you with what’s truly real
55:00 - The Bible as a psychedelic experience
57:00 - Cannabis as the first step into plant medicine
1:01:00 - How and why Eben started with cannabis
Find more from Eben:
Instagram: @edsbritton
Website: ebenbritton.com
Podcast: The Eben Flow
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the line podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together |
| 0:05.0 | the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, |
| 0:09.4 | body, and movement. And today's gorgeous conversation I had my friend |
| 0:14.0 | Evan Britton who is a retired NFL football player and he is been an advocate for |
| 0:20.5 | cannabis and specifically getting people away from pharmaceutical drugs not that all are bad but just creating |
| 0:30.1 | alternative opportunities for people that are experiencing things like pain or anxiety or all the things that we as |
| 0:38.1 | Americans especially end up experiencing. He is also the co-host of a podcast that I listen to with Mike Tyson called Hot Boxin. |
| 0:47.0 | He also hosts another podcast referred to as Evan Flows. |
| 0:51.0 | Really Fantastic Human Being and he is one of the few people |
| 0:55.9 | that has reached the top of their life's goals. |
| 1:01.0 | He was a legit gladiator. He was a humongous, what did he say his top weight was? I think he was like something stupid. |
| 1:08.3 | Three, 300 some and he was like one of the fastest guys and just an impressive specimen of a man and was literally a modern day gladiator warrior. |
| 1:19.4 | And during that time frame he was in lots of pain, kind of just being forced to play in the NFL |
| 1:24.4 | through the pain and found his own path |
| 1:27.5 | on how to start to work with that. |
| 1:29.2 | This conversation starts off |
| 1:30.8 | being something that I've been meaning to grasp and understand for a long time, |
| 1:34.6 | which is the origins of cannabis, the way it's been used in back 10,000 years and beyond, |
| 1:41.5 | and the way it's potentially used in biblical times and it was literally one of the |
| 1:47.6 | most important plants to the founding of the United States of America and then what happened with its original |
| 1:58.6 | criminalization. |
| 1:59.8 | So really fantastic conversation and it ends up going into some more like meta directions |
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