I'm at LAX and I've got about an hour before they bored us.

All right, Terminal 2, a little Narls Barclay right on cue.

I used to play this song out. Anyway, my mind is racing. 12 hours from now, I'll be in

Jamaica for four days to trip on magic mushrooms. I know it sounds crazy, but it's a journey to save my life.

I'm as surprised as you are. I'm a 45 year old black mom and wife, originally from

Detroit, who spends a lot of time negotiating with my teen daughter about whether she can wear makeup

and considers three glasses of wine a wild night out.

And I'll be real, for a long time I thought psychedelics were some white people shit.

When I heard them mentioned, my mind would go right to those images of hippies from the 1960s at Woodstock with flowers in their hair, or rich Silicon Valley Techies with so much

money they're flying on jets to fancy retreats, like that show Nine Perfect Strangers. Well that started to change during a conversation I had a few years ago when I was a host

in PR.

I learned that several groundbreaking studies show psychodelics like MDMA and magic mushrooms are

powerful remedies to treat even the most severe forms of post-traumatic stress

disorder. Really opened my mind.

First major trial on the effective disorder really opened my mind.

First major trial on the effectiveness of using MDMA

to help treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

And some of the details of this latest research peaked my interest even more. One of the details of this latest research

peaked my interest even more.

One of the things that we were sort of most intrigued by

and perhaps most impressed by was the finding

that MDMA was equally effective in some of those subgroups.

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