Hello, friends, and welcome back to the rabbit hole.

I'm your host, Danny, and today we have the pleasure of having Morgan Smith on the podcast.

He is the founder of Calm with Kava.

Kava is a South Pacific beverage derived from a root that is commonly used for calming as a sedative and for its euphoric effects. It's consumed socially and

ceremonially for relaxation without impairing mental clarity. But there are some conspiracies

behind it and Morgan is going to set the record straight with those. Hi Morgan. Thank you so much for

coming on the podcast. I'm really excited

about this. A couple years back, Calm with Kava actually sponsored the podcast. So I thought it would be

awesome that you come on. We actually talk about Kava. What is Kava? Why? Firstly, why have no,

why has nobody heard about it? I hadn't heard about it until you guys reached out to me initially.

So like, yeah, let's go and let's start with what is Kava. Yeah, sure. Well, first off, thanks for having me. I'm super stoked to be here. I'm ready to talk conspiracies. I'm ready to get deep into it. I'm ready to talk about some of the weird stuff. Let's roll. I'm so excited. Yeah. So, it's a, it's a plant that's been grown throughout

Polynesia for about 3,000 years. You take the roots of it, you grind it up, you put, turn it

into a tea and you drink it. And it helps relax you and helps kind of calm you down. It's been used a lot

to like improve relationships, like in old school,

shamanic sort of stuff, a lot of rituals about like, you know, a lot of old, I don't

know if religious is the right term for it, but a lot of sort of mystical things surround

Kava in those cultures and like how they kind of view the world around them.

And so it's it's kind of like shaped a lot of Polynesian and Melanesian culture.

But in the Western world, a lot of people just like it because it helps chill you out a little bit.

So kind of like weed.

Like how is it different than like marijuana?

Yeah.

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