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I Made A Guest Appearance on ABC 15 News
Quite amazing to see Arizona turn Blue and Green in the same election! ABC News 15 Journalist, Sonu Wasu, is doing a series of stories on the impacts of Proposition 207. She interviewed me about plant possession limitation in the new green world. Do check [...]
Psychedelica Lex – Episode 018 – Arizona Yage Assembly v. DEA
Psychedelica Lex - Episode 018: Come learn about Arizona Yage Assembly v. DEA, a lawsuit brought by an ayahuasca church to stop the DEA from seizing its imported sacramental tea. Now on the Psychedelica Lex YouTube Channel
Psychedelica Lex – Arizona’s Peyote Statute
Psychedelica Lex - Episode 017: Come learn about Arizona's Peyote Statute and added bonus - a review of State v. Attakai (1960), one of Arizona's earliest peyote cases. Now on the Psychedelica Lex YouTube Channel
Psychedelica Lex – Episode 016 – Interview of Amy Donohue
Episode 016 of Psychedelica Lex is now available on the Psychedelica Lex YouTube Channel. In episode 016, I interview Amy Donohue, psychedlics advocate. Topics include use of psychedelics to treat PTSD, a glance back at drug policy of the 1980s, the future of entheogens, mushrooms [...]
Episode 15 – Guest Appearance on Psychedelics Today
At the end of October 2020, I was invited to be a guest on Psychedelics Today. My host, Joe Moore, besides being immensely knowledgeable a gracious, was kind to allow me to record and post the interview as well. Here are the links in three [...]
What Attracts Investors to Psychedelics?
What do investors see in psychedelics? Here are some of my thoughts in the latest episode on the Psychedelica Lex YouTube channel.
Psychedelica Lex: Interview with Brad Stoddard, PhD
Psychedelica Lex: Interview with Brad Stoddard, PhD Come watch my two part interview with Brad Stoddard, PhD. Brad Stoddard is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. His research interests include religion in/and American prisons, entheogens, religion and the economy, [...]
Cannabis and Psychedelics: Vote and Change the Laws!
Come see my latest article about voter initiatives impacting plant medicine laws on Chacruna. "The past decade of my nearly 30-year career as a lawyer has been spent practicing cannabis law in Arizona. In that time, I have had a front row seat to the joy [...]
The State of Psychedelics Today
Come see my latest article on psychedelics in inBusiness Magazine: While widely used in various forms for thousands for years, psychedelic substances that have been admonished in recent decades are receiving renewed interest for their medicinal properties. For instance, phase 3 studies are underway for [...]
I Am Making A Guest Appearance on Psychedelic Salon
For the better part of the past decade, I have been a fan of Lorenzo Haggerty's Psychedelic Salon podcast. The Psychedelic Salon is to my best estimation one of the richest repositories of interviews and speeches by true intellectuals - lots of PhDs, MDs, theologians - in [...]
New Episode of Psychedelica Lex – Neuralink, Singularity …
Come see Psychedelica Lex Episode 008 - Andrejs Bunkse, Esq. and Gary Michael Smith, Esq. on Elon Musk and Neuralink Part 1 of 2 - Gary and Andy Discuss Psychedelics and Computer-aided Alteration of Consciousness Part 2 of 2 - Gary and Andy Discuss Psychedelics, [...]
Interview with Melissa Diaz – Part 2
Part two of my interview with Melissa Diaz, CPA, Principal of Rebel Rock - streaming now on the Psychedelica Lex YouTube channel