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This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And I want to welcome you to the first podcast of my 17th year of podcasting from here in the

psychedelic salon. Originally, I planned on posting this yesterday, making it the last podcast of my 16th year.

But, alas, my highly refined ability to procrastinate took hold yesterday, so here we are today,

as my dad used to say, a day late and a dollar short.

Well, what I want to play for you right now is a recording from last Monday's Live Salon.

Our guests were Jennifer Stell and Alex Khorasik, who are involved with a Massachusetts organization called the Bay Staters for Natural Medicine.

As you'll hear in just a moment, what I find unique about this group is not only have they convinced the city councils of

three cities in their state to decriminalize psychedelic substances, but their group has only been around

since last October. That's right. In October of 2020, they came together online, and since then,

they've been making big news in the war on drugs.

Well, after listening to everything that they've accomplished already and how they have done it in such a short time,

and during the pandemic at that, well, I'm hoping that you'll be inspired to get involved yourself.

If you live in Massachusetts, you can join their group.

Or if you live elsewhere, you can get something like this going in your own hometown.

Today, well, we seem to have a lot of momentum building to bring an end to the war on drugs.

So don't wait for somebody else to do your part. Right now, today is the time for you to stand up and be counted. We really need your help. Here now is a recording of last Monday's conversation in the psychedelic salon. What I'd like to do is to kind of get a little input from from you Alex about what the the base

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