Hello there. Welcome to the Psychedelic Today podcast with David Drapkin, today in a vital conversation with Lenny Gibson.

Before I jump into that, I wanted to thank you for listening to me. This is new,

and I'm loving the journey, and thank you for being here with me. We're psychedelics today.

We're going to be having other team members taking turns with the mic, interviewing those

guests that really speak to us personally. So lots more fun to come. Two quick announcements,

one of which we've already told you about. It's a new

training that we've developed with the Polaris Insight Center. And it's called the Ketamine

and Trauma Treatment Series. And it is a collection of 13 pre-recorded lectures that you can

take at your own pace, kind of when and where you wish. And these are very in-depth

and incredibly detailed conversations on how ketamine can be used to treat trauma. And some of the

teachers that we include here are Veronica Gold, Gita Vade, Pierre Bouchard, Sarah Reed, Adele LaFronts,

and our very own, Carl Bula. And if you'd like to get continuing education

credits, they are available. And to find out more, go to psychedelic education center.com.

Our second announcement is a little bit time sensitive. It's an event we're doing on Monday

next week. So that's May the 9th at 1 o'clock Eastern Time. And this is a online webinar

with our friends at Shakuna Institute for Psychedelic Medicine. And it's titled, the indigenous

uses of psilocybin mushrooms and psychedelic capitalism. And what this does is reviewing what we

know about psilocybin containing mushrooms

from the indigenous perspective and then applying that to learning how to approach our ethical

dilemmas right now around the psychedelic renaissance, including some of the big questions around

authenticity, indigenity, and the commercialization of indigenous knowledge and sacred medicines.

The two presenters are Nicholas Spears, an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker,

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