Welcome back to Psychedelics today with your host Kyle Buller and Joe Moore.

This is Kyle. Joe will not be joining me on this episode today.

I had the chance to travel to New York City, which really isn't that

far away from where I'm at, but I got to go into the city and meet Stephanie Jones, who is the

director of audience development over the Drug Policy Alliance. So I got to go hang out the Drug Policy

Alliance office down in New York

for a little bit and chat with Stephanie. It was a really great time, had a fun time talking to her,

and just learning more about what she's doing. She's doing some pretty cool work with some drug

education, with adolescence, which I just found

fascinating. So a little bit about Stephanie. In her role, she oversees communication and outreach

to specific communities on drug use and drug policy topics, including on novel psychoactive

substances and the DPA's youth drug education work.

She personally runs the music fan program,

which introduces harm reduction principles and drug policy alternatives

to partygoers, public health officials, and city nightlife regulators across the U.S.

In her prior role within the DPA, as an event manager, she produced

four progressively larger editions of the Biannial International Drug Policy Reform Conference,

as well as numerous local policy conferences, fundraisers, and coalition building meetings.

And one other thing that Stephanie has been working on over the DPA is the safer partying program. So this is a program that is based

around providing honest and accurate drug education, harm reduction for people that are

attending music festival, concerts, and clubs.

And one thing that we ended up chatting about in this episode and how this may differ

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