PT433 – Senator Alejandra Lagunes – From Personal Healing to Public Policy: The Path to Psychedelic Decriminalization in Mexico
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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In this episode, recorded in-person at Psychedelic Science 2023, Kyle interviews Senator for the Mexican Green Party, Alejandra Lagunes.
Lagunes is the first Senator in Mexico to promote the use of psychedelics, and has been organizing open parliaments to foster collaboration between researchers, scientists, politicians, and Indigenous people, culminating in a groundbreaking decriminalization initiative to decriminalize psilocybin and psilocin from list 1 to list 3 (meaning they could be prescribed), create a new chapter for entheogens (and move mushrooms there), build an economically beneficial framework for Indigenous people, protect ancestor knowledge by law, and make big bioconservation moves with changes to environmental laws.
She discusses her personal journey with depression, anxiety, and a life-saving ayahuasca journey; how Covid uncovered a crisis in meaning and an openness to talk about mental health; the need for accessibility and safety in psychedelics against challenges in politics and policy implementation; our mental health crisis and the need for innovation, education, and overcoming stigma; the influence of US drug control policies on international regulations; the power of storytelling; and why we need to go back to our origins.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up everybody? Joe Moore here. Just want to let you know about a few navigating psychedelics offerings we have coming up. |
| 0:06.0 | On September 25th, we kick off our first ever Australia cohort of navigating psychedelics. |
| 0:13.0 | We've partnered with a really amazing lead instructor, Renee, and she's got an amazing resume and is worth checking out. So if you're in |
| 0:22.5 | Australia or the Pacific Rim, like check out the offerings we've got going there for Australia. |
| 0:28.6 | We have a second cohort kicking up in October as well. So again, September 25 and again in October. |
| 0:35.1 | So check that out. It's like that'll say.com slash events. We've got a neuroscience course coming up, October 4th, so check that out. Manash Gern and Melanie Pinkis, both of whom have been on the show a few times and this is the second time we're offering this one. So I expect another sold-out cohort of that. It's going to be an amazing multi-week program. We've got a two-day offering coming up. |
| 0:55.8 | Kyle and I are going to be in Miami teaching, navigating psychedelics, vital tools for risk |
| 1:00.0 | reduction and integration. We'll give you all sorts of tools for harm reduction, risk |
| 1:05.1 | reduction, integration tools, and we'll even do some mini breathwork stuff to give you an |
| 1:10.1 | experience that's helpful. |
| 1:11.6 | We've got a nine week amazing program coming up starting October 10, |
| 1:16.6 | navigating psychedelics, Jewish and Form Perspectives on psychedelics. |
| 1:20.0 | That's going to be amazing. |
| 1:21.1 | David Trapkin is developing a new curriculum there and we'll be teaching that from Israel. |
| 1:26.7 | He's moving there real soon. And then November |
| 1:29.0 | one, nine week navigating psychedelics program. That's going to be extraordinary. And that would be |
| 1:35.0 | led by Kyle. There's just going to be CE available for that. And then in November 10, November |
| 1:40.4 | 10, we're going to do the same thing we're doing in Miami, but in Denver. So Kyle and I will teach that one, November 10 and 11. |
| 1:45.9 | It'll be two, eight-hour days. |
| 1:47.9 | And it's going to be an amazing class for risk reduction and integration tools in Ed. |
| 1:53.0 | So it's kind of the PT update on classes. |
| 1:56.1 | So check us out and more coming soon. |
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