Before we get started a warning for anyone with kids in the room we'll be talking

about recreational drug use. There's also some light cursing in this episode.

Okay let's start the show. Back when I was in my 20s, if my friends and I took mushrooms to psychedelic kind,

we'd be at a Grateful Dead concert or at the beach or some other fun

venue. But in Oregon these days there's another way to take a strange trip and it's run by the state government. It's called Oregon Silasibbon Services.

So people can go to these service centers as they call them,

basically a facility where a trained person will sit with you

over the course of a six to eight hour trip.

You can have your Silasai

I've been at Venture and then you have a debrief meeting

with them afterwards to talk about what happened.

That's Jane See Who.

She recently wrote about the emerging legal

psychedelic industry for the Atlantic. These different centers all have

slightly different vibes. I think for the most part they try to make them feel

really homey and comfortable so you aren't just feeling like you're in a

doctor's office doing shrooms. So it's a place you go to when you want a shroom?

Exactly. And the interesting thing about Oregon is that anyone can go. Basically if you want to have a

shrimp trip, there's a state legal way to do that in Oregon.

Oregon

Oregon decriminalized drugs back in 2020.

Back in the day, the idea of state sanctioned psychedelic trips

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