Tom Shroder - Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal

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🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Tom Shroder Joe and Kyle talk about Tom's great book titled "Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal". Tom is an editor, and author of a number of books as well as the former editor of the Washington Post. Interviewing Tom was real fun and we appreciate him joining us for the show. We get into some great topics including

Tom's interesting connection to Rick Doblin
The history of Rick's rise to influence
The story of the Mithoefers transitioning from emergency medicine and sailing to Holotropic Breathwork and MDMA research
The book and this interview also follow the story of a US Marine who came home with treatment resistant PTSD and was then treated by the Mithoefers with MDMA as part of their research.

The book is amazing and well worth your time if you want to get familiarized with the hopes and history of psychedelic research. Links Tom giving a talk in Berkley covered by CSAPN Tom Shroder Wiki Acid Test on Amazon https://vimeo.com/109338542 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06l2FT9cLBs

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0:00.0	Tom Schroeder, welcome to the show. Hey, it's my pleasure. So, Tom, you're the author of the
0:05.6	wonderful book, Acid Test, has longer title than that. LSD, X-C, and the Power to Heal. It is
0:15.0	whirlwind of a book. A friend actually told me about it who has no interest in the field really and said it
0:22.8	was on some, I think it was like a top 50 books of all time list or something. I said, well,
0:28.6	that's right up my alley. So I'll, uh, I'll go ahead and, you know, pop 20 bucks down. And, uh,
0:34.9	I loved it so much that I reached out right away before I was even finished to
0:39.2	interview you here. I thought it did a really good job giving a general overview of the history
0:44.2	and like some really cool stories that that weren't necessarily part of many other books. You
0:51.0	had a couple gems in there that I hadn't really heard before and was
0:55.9	really grateful for it. And then it tied into this narrative of a Marine that was able to heal
1:02.3	a bunch from MDMA psychotherapy. Um, with the, is with the Griffiths or with the Mithoffers?
1:09.6	Midhoffers. Cool. They, um, they're actually good friends with the Griffiths or with the Mitthoeffers? Midhoffers. Cool.
1:17.4	They, um, they're actually good friends with the people Kyle and I studied, uh, breathwork with.
1:18.6	Um, they actually did the training together, I think, which is pretty cool.
1:23.0	Yeah, they were using the MDMA and, this was the first clinical trial to try to use it for PTSD,
1:37.5	combat-related PTSD.
1:40.8	Yeah, that's interesting.
1:41.9	So how did you get kind of involved in this whole world? Like,
1:46.4	you must have got interested in. I mean, it's actually a pretty crazy story because it goes
1:53.3	all the way back to when I was like 20 years old. I was a student journalist at the University of Florida, and I was home on
2:07.2	spring break, I think, and I either heard or saw a little blur in the newspaper that there
2:16.1	was this hippie building this sort of magnificent cedar and stone blurb in the newspaper that there was this like hippie building this sort of
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