Hi, everybody. Welcome back to psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore coming out. You from

Breckbridge, Colorado. Today on the show, we have Melissa Lavasani, CEO of Psychedelic Medicine Coalition.

Melissa helped to bring the Washington, D.C.,

psychedelic decriminalization bill through.

And quite successfully, we get into the history of that.

We talk about the creation of the Psychedelic Medicine Coalition,

why it's important and strategic for the

movement as a whole. And yeah, a lot of really interesting stuff. And we even get into a very

brand new how to change your mind Netflix series that everybody's chatting about. So

hope you all enjoy this episode and learn a bunch. A lot of really fun and sometimes controversial

things we get into here and some serious things. So really all over the map. Anyway, I hope

you all enjoy this one. Melissa, thanks for joining us today and we'll see you on the other side.

Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Seged Alex today. This is Joe Moore, joined by Melissa

Lovassani. Melissa, how are you today? I'm doing well. How are you?

Great, great. So we're going to have a fun podcast today. I'm excited. We're going to go

all over the map.

I'm really excited about. All right. So you are the CEO of the psychedelic medicine coalition.

And I'm honored and flattered to be a board member there, which is amazing. And I guess before we get into the organization, I kind of want to like rewind the tape a little bit and kind of talk about, you know, how psychedelics kind of came onto your radar.

Like where, where did this interest come from?

Yeah. Yeah. So I am a daughter of Iranian immigrants. I feel like I was a bit of a nerd growing up. I didn't really,

like in high school, I played tennis competitively. I didn't, I mean, I went to parties,

but like I never really got into drugs or alcohol. I think I smoked my first joint when I was

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