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Over the last few years, there's been more and more talk about the coming psychedelic revolution.

Some doctors are calling it a breakthrough using psychedelics to treat mental illness.

There's growing evidence that drugs like MDMA and psilocybin, ecstasy and magic mushrooms can have positive benefits

for people suffering from things like PTSD, depression and other mental illnesses.

We are going to see this industry do transformational things for society over the next five to ten years.

But what many people don't realize is that athletes are now at the forefront of this push for more research and treatment.

Today, the authentic Stan Robson joins us to discuss why many former pro athletes are taking up the cause

and how some of their lives have been transformed by their experiences with the drugs.

He felt that anxiety go away, that sort of darkness, that weight that he was carrying.

Lifted because he had a better sense of what it was that had been causing him so much pain in the years after his NFL career.

From Wondry and the Athletic, I'm Andres Keltow. It's Friday, June 11th, and this is The Lead.

So Dan, you recently wrote this in-depth story about athletes who are sort of at the forefront of this movement to use psychedelics as a form of medical treatment.

First, how did you get interested in this topic?

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