On Tuesday, August the 9th at 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time, Psychedelics today will be hosting a free

online discussion about the connections and challenges, research and real life stories within

the realms of psychedelics and queer identity. We'll be joined by a panel of insightful researchers

and clinicians and thought leaders working at the nexus of this intersection.

The panelists are Amy Bartlett, Dr. Clancy Kavanaugh, Terence Ching, Ph.D., Stephen Huang,

and myself David Drapkin as the moderator. So it's free to attend. You can go to

Psychedelic Today.com forward slash events to find out more details. And we do encourage donations

to our preferred non-profit, rainbowrailroad.org.

Welcome back, everybody, to the Psychedelics Today podcast.

My name is Victoria Decker, and we are coming at you today with a few firsts on the show.

To start, if my voice is unfamiliar to you, that is because it's my very first time hosting the podcast.

I work with the team ordinarily behind the scenes

at psychedelics today, helping them find new ways to create great content and to reach people.

But I'm a veteran storyteller, and I love connecting with people doing interesting work in

psychedelics, so Joe, Kyle, and David were kind enough to give me time on the

mic today. If I do well, they might give me the keys to the AV closet again. So if I do,

if you like what you hear, let me know. And better yet, let them know. Oh, and one more thing.

We are coming to you today in the first ever recording

from the east coast of Canada, where I live. Many of you know there's a lot of exciting

psychedelic activity happening here in the Great White North, and I am so glad that psychedelics today

is inching up here slowly but surely.

So in that spirit today on the show, we are sharing some enormous news from Canada in conversation with Spencer Hawkswell,

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