Psychedelics Weekly – The Church of Psilomethoxin Controversy, Psychedelics for Long COVID, and The Growth of Bicycle Day

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Psychedelics Weekly, Joe and Kyle once again record in person, diving into novel compounds, changing opinions, Bicycle Day, and more.

They start by dissecting a very recent controversy around The Church of Psilomethoxin and whether the sacrament they label as psilomethoxin – supposedly created by adding 5-MeO-DMT to the substrate of cultivated Psilocybe mushrooms – actually contains any psilomethoxin in it. Usona Institute published a paper last week reporting on their analysis of a sample they allegedly collected from the Church, which only showed what we'd see in a sample of a typical psilocybin-containing mushroom. While the Church has issues with Usona's data collection, analytical methods, and motives, they also reiterate a main component of the church: that their "claims to the existence of Psilomethoxin, at this time, are solely based on faith," and bolstered by their "own direct experiences with the Sacrament." It's a very interesting story that touches on faith, consent, personal safety, and the harms of the drug war, which Joe covered extensively in a Twitter Space last night with Andrew Gallimore and the writer of a very critical article, Mario de la Fuente.

They also discuss:

-a Time magazine article about the mystery of Long COVID, and how many believe the anti-inflammatory and neuroplastic benefits of psychedelics could be the answer;

-how Bicycle Day may soon become more popular than 4/20, likely due to society's warmer reception to the life-changing effects of psychedelics (as opposed to their propagandized and unmoving beliefs about cannabis);

-how some analysts believe that seven in 10 ketamine companies will likely face financial challenges as the industry grows too quickly;

and why Snoop Dogg apparently microwaves blunts before smoking them (and does that actually do anything?).

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Psychedelics Weekly with Kyle and Joe. How are you doing today, Kyle?
0:21.9	Doing pretty well. How are you doing? Good. Happy bicycle day. We made it. We did.
0:26.4	Another year. Yeah. So last year, what were we up to? I was at the San Francisco Bicycle Day
0:33.7	event at the Midway. It was pretty fun. Did you do anything last year? I think I actually just took a 20-mile bike ride. Yeah, you took it really literally. I love that. I wish I took a 20-mile bike ride. The bike path here is just about open, too. Oh, nice. All the snow's melted. Yeah. So, I'll put that up. Yeah. For our bicycle day today, we had a fun team meeting, talked all about our past bicycle days, misadventures and other exciting things.
1:00.1	Yeah.
1:00.8	Fun stories.
1:02.0	A lot of laughing.
1:03.3	Yeah, so it was great.
1:04.8	Yeah, today on the show, we have a lot of exciting news to dig into.
1:08.1	So we'll kind of get right to it. But I wanted to have you plug the
1:12.7	neuroscience course again, Kyle. Yeah, demystifying neuroscience. So that is going to kick off on May 17th,
1:19.6	I believe. Just missed early bird tickets. And so that is going to, I think it's like $800, $899.
1:27.4	And that is presented by Melanie Pinkis, Dr. Melanie Pinkis, and Manesh Gern.
1:33.9	It's going to be an eight-week course, a lot of pre-recorded material.
1:37.9	And also, you'll be able to join them in Zoom to have Q&A discussion and talk all things.
1:45.1	Neuroscience looks awesome.
1:46.3	I actually think I might try to take it just to try to brush up on some neuroscience.
1:51.5	So that starts on Wednesday, May 17th.
1:54.0	It's going to run from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. Eastern daylight time.
2:00.0	So definitely check that out. If you're on the West Coast, it's 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Eastern daylight time. So definitely check that out. If you're on the West Coast, it's
2:02.0	4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Pacific daylight time. Right on. And you just kicked off Vital yesterday,
2:09.9	was it? Yeah. Yeah. We just kicked off Vital our second round. Yeah, we had a little orientation
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