Guest speakers: Richard Glen Boire, Erik Davis, and John Gilmore
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05:08 Richard Glen Boire: “What if the government could inoculate you so you couldn’t get high, so if you took a drug it didn’t work in you?”

07:53 Richard begins a discussion about the U.S. Government’s research into anti-drug drugs, which he calls “Neurocops”. “So the question is, is it actually possible to treat illegal drug use with other drugs?”
» Continue reading “Podcast 099 – “Controlling The Culture” (Part 1)”

Guest speaker: Gary Fisher
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04:20 Gary tells about his encounter with an extraterrestrial.

07:11 Stories of another encounter with otherworldly entities, this time in the desert.

09:40 The story about a man who always longed for a UFO experience.
» Continue reading “Podcast 098 – “Psychedelic Research in the 1960s” (Part 2)”

Guest speaker: Gary Fisher
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Our conversation began by looking at photos of some of Gary’s former students, patients, and famous friends.

13:12 We begin a discussion of Gary’s work in the 1960s with severely emotionally disturbed children suffering from variants of childhood schizophrenia and infantile autism who he treated with LSD and psilocybin.

16:36 Al Hubbard is discussed
» Continue reading “Podcast 097 – “Psychedelic Research in the 1960s” (Part 1)”

Guest speaker: Charles S. Grob, M.D.
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03:20 Charlie talks about how he got into psychedelic research.

07:47 Charlie: “My interest has always been in studying the potential therapeutic effects of MDMA. I’ve always had concerns about use and abuse of the recreationally drug ecstasy. Now early on in the history of this drug, ecstasy was almost always MDMA, but over the years there has been more and more drug substitutions, to the point where now with ecstasy I think there’s less reliability in regards to it being the drug you think it is than for any other drug I’m aware of.”

09:25 Charlie describes the process of obtaining approval to conduct clinical research using psychedelic drugs.
» Continue reading “Podcast 096 – “Psychedelic Research, MDMA Safety Issues, and more””