Psychedelics Weekly – Challenging the 'Gifting' Part of Prop 122, Public Perception in Oregon, and The Medicine of Music
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Psychedelics Weekly, Joe and Kyle are both on the road, so David and Alexa take the helm.
They cover news stories about:
-a man in Colorado facing a Class 3 drug felony for giving people psilocybin mushrooms in exchange for monetary donations – pointing out the bold (or stupid?) stances some are taking to highlight the absurdity of legislation that allows possession and donation as long as no money changes hands;
-a study showing what many of us have felt ourselves: that the day after psilocybin-assisted therapy, depressed patients had a stronger brain response to music and saw improvements in the ability to find pleasure in previously empty activities;
-a trip report from a psychedelically-naive 50-year old, showing the power and beauty of MDMA-assisted therapy;
-the New Hampshire state Senate continuing to be behind the times and voting down House Bill 639, which would have created a legal recreational cannabis framework for the state;
-a video where people on the street in Oregon were asked how much they thought psilocybin therapy would cost, showing a drastic misalignment between public perception and reality;
and a local TV news feature touring Rose City Laboratories, the first licensed psilocybin testing lab in Oregon.
And in conversation, they talk about some of the lesser-discussed (and often dismissed) tools like CBD, THC patches, and very low-dose edibles; the problem with drug dealers and harm reduction; the power of music in guiding a psychedelic experience (and in living a pleasurable life); and the importance of dosing and listening to your body to know what's right for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to Psychedelics. Today, this is Psychedelics Weekly with David Drapkin and Alexa. Jesse. How are you doing, Alexa? |
| 0:17.9 | I'm good. It's good to be here with you, David. |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah, I'm going to be honest. I've got a cold and allergies and I sound a bit crappy. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm also just rushing around like a complete idiot in my life. I'm going to be honest with you here. |
| 0:36.3 | Alexa just handled me exploding coffee all over my laptop and office. |
| 0:39.0 | And yeah, I was just thinking, why am I rushing so much? |
| 0:41.2 | I'm constantly racing through life. |
| 0:44.5 | And I need to slow things down is where I'm just holding. |
| 0:46.5 | But my life is a little bit all over the place because I'm kind of moving and selling the house |
| 0:49.3 | and tons of stuff happening. |
| 0:50.9 | So that's where I'm holding. |
| 0:52.6 | And I'm, yeah, just looking forward to chatting, to be honest, with you. So hopefully folks enjoy listening. |
| 0:58.4 | Where are you holding in life and reality at the moment? Yeah, there's a lot to take in a lot going on and doing a lot of my own personal healing work, a lot of healing opportunities that have kind of come up both with psychedelics |
| 1:13.7 | and without psychedelics. And I don't know, though, I'm definitely trusting the divine timing of things |
| 1:20.2 | and learning to surrender and try to just be grateful for what we have. You're going through a crazy |
| 1:25.6 | time. But how fortunate are we for just what we |
| 1:29.4 | have and where we are? So yeah, I'm excited for you to get through this madness because I just really |
| 1:36.5 | landed in my new space and it's the best. Like once you finish all the craziness, we just got like |
| 1:42.3 | new pieces of furniture. We're actually hosting |
| 1:44.2 | events here. And yeah, it feels so good to finally settle. So just like keep imagining |
| 1:50.4 | yourself in Israel and in your new space and how amazing it's going to be because it will be. |
| 1:57.0 | Amen. Beautiful. Yeah. I'm enjoying having a cleaner house than usual because we're kind of getting it ready for house opening, open houses. So it's like, oh, wow, this is nice. Yeah, I bet. |
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