Maybe it's because I live in the Bay Area, but I talk a lot about

psychedelics with my friends.

Experiences we've heard about, questions we have,

the evolving regulatory regimes around them,

whom to trust about their potential and their risks.

It's exciting to learn about them.

The emerging science of how some psychedelics can help facilitate new neural pathways,

literally create new patterns and how our brains react to and make sense of stimuli.

That science is developing rapidly about what psychedelics could potentially treat from

depression to PTSD to anorexia and the rules from state to state are also changing quickly. Oregon became the first state

last year to license service centers that offer regulated silicibon therapies. In, where I live, the legislature voted to decriminalize plant-based

psychedelics, but Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed that, an effort to legalize regulated access to psychodelics and settings where uses facilitated

just died this session because of its cost.

In Colorado, where my guest this week Jim Harris lives.

Voters approved a ballot initiative in 2022

to decriminalize possession of psychedelic mushrooms

and a few other psychedelic substances.

Jim has used psychedelics recreationally,

and also when he fell into a deep depression,

two years after a spinal cord injury left him partially paralyzed. In our conversation this week we talk about that,

including when Jim recovered a long dormant sensation in his hamstring while he was on mushrooms at a music festival.

My decision to take psychedelics was kind of motivated by FOMO,

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