This is the Reason interview with Nick Gillespie.

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My guest is Shane Moss, a comedian who tours the country discussing

his psychedelic experiences in really fantastic, mesmerizing, immersive multimedia shows

with titles like DMT A Love Story and A Better Trip. If you're in the New York area,

he'll be appearing at the Psych psychedelic assembly in Midtown Manhattan,

October 27 to 31st, as part of a really kind of great spookadelic haunted house.

So check that out.

I caught up with Shane at the Psychedelic Science 2023 conference, which was held in Denver this June, where he participated in a comedy roast of the psychedelic scene. Shane also hosts a

science podcast called Here We Are, and we talk a little bit about that. He also shared his thoughts

with reason about the mainstreaming of psychedelic drugs, the

surprising pace of legalization, and the role that Joe Rogan and other public figures play

in normalizing psychedelics and promoting cognitive liberty.

Here is the reason interview with Shane Moss.

Yeah, we're in a psychedelic renaissance. A lot of people call it. It's certainly a psychedelic

moment. Like, what does the psychedelic renaissance mean to you?

I don't know what the psychedelic renaissance means to me. I can tell you that as someone who

was born in 1980 and experienced much of the Reagan era,

just say no to drugs and early 90s, PSA's and the frying egg and this is your brain on drugs

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