Robert Johnson, also known as Bob Johnson, is the founder and CEO of Micro Boost and is a psychedelic

and cognitive freedom advocate. Welcome to the podcast, my friend. Thanks a lot. Excited to be on here.

So, yeah, there's all sorts of places we could start, but I'm curious.

Can you tell me what is Micro Boost?

Great.

Yeah, Micro Boost is a functional mushroom company that me and some partners started about a year and a half ago.

And functional mushrooms are also known as adaptogenic mushrooms or medicinal mushrooms.

They're not shrooms.

They're not the psychedelic hallucination type mushrooms.

However, they do work in similar ways. Maybe the most famous

adaptogenic mushroom is, or popular is Lions Main. I think it gets a lot of credit and attention

because it has a badass name for starters. But it's also one that's really focused on cognitive health and

cognitive improvement. And so I think functional mushrooms are getting a lot of attention right now

because of the interest and the media attention around microdosing psychedelics. And kind of similar to how as cannabis was

legalizing, I was working in the in the cannabis industry here in L.A. since 2008. And as cannabis

was becoming more mainstream, is legalizing in different states, the popularity of CBD started to kind of ride the tailwinds

of that media attention. And people were learning, you know, about the medicinal benefits of cannabis

and then finding out, oh, well, CBD has, you know, similar properties, but without the psychoactive effects.

So I really liken functional mushrooms are to psychedelics as CBD is to cannabis.

Got you, got you. So you worked in cannabis since 2008. So it seems like you've been working in the kind of plant world for a long time.

What drew you? Is there anything besides just pure business venture? What drew you to cannabis and then ultimately to functional mushrooms?

Yeah. Well, I went to school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and got a degree

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