Welcome back to the episode on the Expand Your Awareness 2.0 Podcast.

My name is Aaron Dowdy and I'm here today to share with you my journey with plant medicine,

whether that be something that is called ayahuasca, something that is called mushrooms, something

that is called diomethe trip to mean and what else have I done? Oh, watchuma, it's called

tan padro. This is over my course in my whole life. This isn't like since last Sunday or

something. Just so you know, I figured I'd do a whole episode on this because sometimes

people ask me my perspective on plant medicine, what are my experiences like, what are some

of my insights like? And I thought I would just go through this. Now first of all let

me say that back in like 2012, I, I, I used to smoke a lot of weed back in 2012 and one

of the reasons I smoked a lot of weed was because I was taking Adderall, which is the prescription

drug they give you if you have what is called ADHD. So I'd go into work every day. I'd

take Adderall. I would sell a lot of shoes. It would call me down and really help me focus.

Then I'd go home at the end of the day and the side effects of Adderall or you don't

eat very much. You don't sleep very much. Well, guess what I found found weed. Side effects

of weed include you get to eat a lot and you get to sleep a lot. So I was like, whoa,

this perfect combination. So, um, and I don't recommend anybody to do this Adderall. Some

of you probably to have that have been prescribed Adderall before is not good like long term

at all. But I did it for like a, you know, a while when I was younger. Um, and then I would

smoke weed and then I became, I was like, whoa, I really liked this weed stuff. And then

back in 2012, I went through my spiritual awakening. I smoked a lot of weed for about a year.

And then I completely stopped cold turkey. And, uh, from that of, uh, of, I think was

like July of 2012 onwards, I completely stopped smoking weed cold turkey because I

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