PT 599 - Sarko Diane and Rick - First to Respond
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This podcast comes from the Aspen Psychedelic Symposium from last summer. It features Diane Goldstein who is the executive director of Law Enforcement Action Partnership, Sarko Gergerian a police officer from Winthrop, Mass and Rick Doblin from MAPS.
This panel was introduced by Zach Leary and was a highlight of our trip to Aspen's conference last year.
We discuss new ways in which police should or could consider psychedelics and drugs more generally.
Thanks to Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Psychedelic Symposium for allowing us to share this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to psychedelics today. Joe Moore here. I just want to explain myself. I'm on the road coming at you from Southern California, not traveling with my normal recording kit, unfortunately. And I wanted to get this podcast out. So today we have a podcast from the Aspen Psychedelic Symposium. Thank you to Aspen Public Radio and to all the |
| 0:22.9 | volunteers and organizations that contributed to make that event happen. It was beautiful. And this is |
| 0:29.2 | from last summer. Today, we have Sarko Gregorian, a Boston police officer who is also trained to do MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. |
| 0:40.9 | He's a leading advocate and one of the very few current non-retired police officers contributing to this space in a really robust, very forward way. |
| 0:50.9 | And he was also in uniform, which was really, really amazing. I think it's the first time I've |
| 0:57.2 | ever seen a uniform police officer be on stage at a psychedelic conference. And we also have Diane |
| 1:03.4 | Goldstein, who is the executive director of law enforcement action partnership, who's an amazing |
| 1:08.5 | individual as well. I don't always try to spend too much time with |
| 1:13.6 | police in uniform, but this is really worth it. So thank you, Sarko, for being on there and |
| 1:20.3 | contributing. Same with you, Diane. Really grateful to all three of these panelists and to |
| 1:26.5 | Zach Leary for introducing us. Yeah, and I just loved being a part of this panel. It was really fun and quite the honor. So thank you all for tuning in, and I really, you know, hope you have some good takeaways from this. And just so you know, we have another offering coming up. |
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