Psychedelics Weekly – AIMS vs. the DEA: An Update on the Fight to Reschedule Psilocybin
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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In this episode, David is joined by Director of Advocacy at the National Psychedelics Association, Kathryn L. Tucker, JD, who updates us on the 3 AIMS vs. the DEA cases, discussing what their outcome could mean for the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome back. Fancy seeing you here. And thanks for listening to Psychedetics Weekly. This is David Drabkin in a weekly episode alongside Catherine Tucker, |
| 0:23.5 | who's from the National Psychedelic Association. There's been so much happening around the world, |
| 0:29.5 | but especially here in America with psychedelic regulations and bills and legislation. So we thought, |
| 0:36.7 | let's dive in with Catherine and really approach all of |
| 0:39.7 | these legal issues together, but especially what Catherine has been working on for a long, |
| 0:46.3 | long time decades, is the right to try and the breakthrough therapies act, which is now coming |
| 0:51.2 | down the pipeline and could potentially reschedule psilocybin. |
| 0:57.0 | So really interesting to get into the nuts and bolts of that. We talk about what's happening |
| 1:00.5 | in Australia this week, massive news coming out there. And then we also, at the very end, |
| 1:06.0 | talk about the end of the public health emergency and the return of the Ryan Weight Act. And what does that mean |
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| 2:10.0 | All right. Welcome to the show, everybody. I'm sitting here in discussion with Catherine |
| 2:14.9 | Tucker. Love you to have you back on the show. Catherine, how are you doing? |
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