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February 3, 2022 72 mins

One of the outstanding figures in the current Psychedelic Renaissance is Matt Johnson, who recently became the first researcher to be appointed to an endowed chair in psychedelic studies. He is the Susan Hill Ward Professor in Psychedelics and Consciousness at Johns Hopkins University, a university which has played a pioneering role in renewing psychedelic research. Matt and I talked about the politics of psychedelic research, the relative merits of psilocybin versus other psychedelics, the significance of the mystical experience and what he calls the “dope slap effect,” why psychedelic therapy may represent a paradigm shift in psychiatric treatment, the in’s and out’s of conducting psychedelic experiments, and much more.

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