Daniel Wolfe on Funding Global Harm Reduction
George Soros' Open Society Foundations has been the outstanding funder of harm reduction initiatives around the world since the mid-1990s. The brilliant individual directing that work until just a few...
27 Jan 20221h 2min
Hamilton Morris on Pharmacological Creations, Myths & Heroes
Hamilton Morris has been writing and making documentaries about drugs and the people who make them for over a decade, delving into the relationships between chemicals, people and society. We discussed...
20 Jan 20221h 37min
Gita Vaid on Ketamine
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is growing rapidly in popularity in the United States and abroad, both because ketamine is the only psychedelic that can be legally prescribed and because its unique pr...
13 Jan 202254min
Kirsten Smith on Kratom
Kratom, an herbal extract from the leaves of a tree indigenous to Southeast Asia, is now used by millions to enhance mood, relieve pain and reduce the symptoms of opioid withdrawal. Dr. Kirsten Smith ...
6 Jan 202255min
Simeon Schnapper on Psychedelics and Venture Capital
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in start-ups and investors developing psychedelic medicines. Simeon Schanpper is a founder and managing partner of JLS Fund, a venture capital fund investing...
30 Dec 202155min
Stephen Jackson on Drugs, Sports, and George Floyd
For decades, sports have been regulating drug use among athletes, but of course, anytime you make a rule, people break it, and today we are going to talk to one of the NBA's best-known rule breakers. ...
23 Dec 202151min
Matt Culley on the Culture, Business & Politics of E-Cigarettes
Matt Culley was an early adopter of vaping and became a prominent vaping activist. He's also worked as a product designer, consultant, and is a board member of Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Altern...
16 Dec 20211h
Dimitri Mugianis on Iboga, Addiction, and Healing
The first sentence to Dimitri’s Wikipedia entry describes him as “a harm reductionist, activist, musician, poet, writer, anarchist, and psychedelic practitioner.” He spent years using large amounts of...
9 Dec 202142min
