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Kyle and Joe - Solidarity Fridays - Week 6 with Brett Greene

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4.6 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In today's Solidarity Friday's Episode, Kyle and Joe sit down with Brett Greene, who was the very first guest on Psychedelics Today four years ago. In response to last week's episode on the Corporadelic topic, Brett comes on the show to talk about companies and drug discovery.

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Show Notes

Brett Greene

  • Brett Greene was the very first guest on Psychedelics Today four years ago
  • Brett and Kyle originally met at the Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics conference in New York City in 2013.
  • He works at The Center for Drug Discovery

Drug Development

  • At his new company, they are making drugs from tryptamines that are more predictable
    • His team has not only done this countless of times with the FDA, they have also done it with psychedelics

Ethics

  • The psychedelic movement doesn't own psychedelics, they don't own molecules, but they do own their history
  • "We should get away from the right and wrongness of the mechanics, and get into the right and wrongness of the ethics" - Brett
  • "Patents are the language of invention" - Brett
  • "An ethical charter is one that covers cognitive liberty, business ethics, and responsibility and accountability for patient safety" - Brett
  • What are the minimal acceptable requirements when doing this work?

Final Thoughts

  • We need to be kind with each other
  • We need to balance truth with kindness and compassion
  • For those interested in a work postiton email Brett@adeliatx.com 

About Brett Greene

Brett works in research administration under Alexandros Makriyannis, one of the world's top cannabinoid researchers. His job consists of a multitude of functions, ranging from administrative support for a team of 15+ grant submitting scientists to lab equipment and lab management, and diverse recruitment for NIH grants.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back to psychedelics today, everybody, here with Joe Moore and Brett Green.

0:23.4

Brett, so I wanted to chat with you because you made a Facebook post.

0:27.6

Actually, right after Joe and I were talking last week about just money, investments,

0:32.5

and you made just an interesting post on Facebook, and it kind of resonated, I think,

0:37.2

what Joe and I were saying.

0:38.4

And I was like, oh, hey, we were just chatting about that.

0:42.0

And ironically, I was just thinking about how this project got started.

0:48.0

And I was like, I feel like, you know, we're almost at four years here at Psychics today.

0:53.1

And so I went back into the

0:54.5

archive and I saw that you were our first episode way back on May 11th, 2016. So we're coming

1:02.9

full circle on a four year anniversary and welcome me back on the show. So yeah, let's let's kick this

1:09.8

off. And since, you know, you haven't been on here in a while,

1:12.1

how about you just give folks a little bit of a background on who you are? Well, great. I'm so

1:17.8

honored to come full circle here. You know, I guess because of what you just said, I mean,

1:25.5

maybe I'll tell my story intertwined with our story, which was that,

1:30.6

you know, we met at Horizon way back then, and we were both relatively, relatively new to things,

1:39.8

although I had been coming from psychedemia, which was a conference in UPenn, I want to say it was back in

1:46.4

2012, and I'd been very involved with, you know, the movement in terms of maps and whatnot,

1:53.8

going way back to when I was in high school.

1:56.6

But really, that horizon that you and I met, Kyle, was the first time that I started to get involved in a business way.

2:08.4

And, you know, back then, I was still working for the Center for Drug Discovery,

2:12.6

where I've been for a little over 13 and a half years at Northeastern University coming from a world-class

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