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1. Psychedelic Icon, Ralph Metzner passed away on March 14th, 2019. He had a remarkable career and published a ton of books around psychedelics in his time.
2. A recent study found that a single dose of Psilocybin can enhance creative thinking and empathy for up to 7 days after use.
3. Activists are planning an initiative to decriminalize Psilocybin in Oakland. Denver will vote on decriminalization on the May 7th ballot.

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• Ralph Metzner passed away on March 14th, 2019
• He was a part of the Leary, Alpert trio
• Ralph was a psychologist, writer and researcher who participated in psychedelic research in the 60’s.
• He had a remarkable career and published a ton of books:
  • The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
  • Maps of consciousness;: I Ching, tantra, tarot, alchemy, astrology, actualism
  • The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
  • Green Psychology: Transforming Our Relationship to the Earth
  • Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanácatl: A Sourcebook on the Psilocybin Mushroom
  • Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca
  • The Expansion of Consciousness (Ecology of Consciousness)
  • Alchemical Divination: Accessing your spiritual intelligence for healing and guidance (The Ecology of Consciousness)
  • Ecology of Consciousness: The Alchemy of Personal, Collective, and Planetary Transformation
  • Overtones and Undercurrents: Spirituality, Reincarnation, and Ancestor Influence in Entheogenic Psychotherapy
  • Searching for the Philosophers’ Stone: Encounters with Mystics, Scientists, and Healers
  • The Toad and the Jaguar a Field Report of Underground Research on a Visionary Medicine: Bufo Alvarius and 5-Methoxy-Dimethyltryptamine

• A single dose of Psilocybin enhances creative thinking and empathy for up to 7 days after use
• It was a 55 participant study in the Netherlands

• Activists plan to decriminalize Psilocybin in Oakland

• It will be voted on, on May 7th
• Joe believes all drugs should be decriminalized
  • We need to have a compassionate drug policy
  • Placing people in jail for non-violent offences tears apart families
  • We should not favor one drug over another in terms of decriminalization

• Joe mentions conversation he had with a friend of the show
  • He mentioned that Ayahuasca sometimes has mold on it
  • Ayahuasca is labor intensive to make, so they make it once and then it grows mold
  • Then people come and drink the mold infested Aya and it can make a person more sick than they need to be
• “If you have the option to be more safe, should you be?”
• If we have less harm and less deaths in the drug world over time, in the next 5 or 6 years we are going to see huge benefits with these substances
• Staying out of jail, not dying, and by being safer with drugs we have more of a chance to influence policy and make these substances and drug checking more available for the future culture