Hello there everybody. Welcome to psychedelics today. Thank you for tuning in to this episode with myself, David Drapkin talking with Ifitio Harvey. So Ifatio is an amazing woman who I met

six months ago in Toronto from Research to Reality. We've hung out a few times since then. She even

came over to us in Jersey and went out with my wife for karaoke. I wasn't feeling so well,

so I stayed home and I don't really like karaoke very much.

She's just full of laughter and wisdom, real people person, very musical, and speaks her

truth without holding back. So it's an honour to be friends and to know Fetai, her work from

their experience in Maps, drug policy alliance,

and now her leading people of color psychedelic collective kind of gives her that ability to

kind of frame her life experiences, but also have a bit of a platform for other people to rally

around and to kind of add their voices as well, which is just awesome to

see. And related to her calling and her voice, we did a bit of blue sky thinking about kind of

what could happen if her kind of mission was to come to fruition. And it didn't get into the kind of abstract or overly optimistic blue sky

thinking. It was really kind of hands-on nitty-gritty blue sky that we create, kind of rolling up sleeves

and very, very practical stuff, particularly around our voices and not

shutting up. So refusing to let other people kind of frame the narrative to build the ecosystem

to define what psychedelic access should look like and not letting people ignore the impacts of the

war on drugs and the impacts of racism, historical and current. So without further ado, I'll read her

bio. If Italy-Harvey is the founder of the People of Color Psychedelic Collective, which educates

and builds community with people of color that are interested in psychedelics in ending

the war on drugs. If Itaio is a member of the federal policy guidelines for psychedelics

working group led by healing equity and liberation. She was also a member of the Research

to Reality Global Summit on Psychedelic Assisted Therapies

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