It’s Never Too Late to Rewrite Your Story: Addiction and the Power of Recovery Coaching
Lana Baumgartner is an addiction recovery coach and co-founder of Psychedelic Times. Today, she shares her story about her experience with addiction and how her views about addiction changed when she got involved with recovery coaching. Mikey overdosed on prescription...
What is Psychedelic Therapy? How Visionary Plants and Other Psychedelics Give Hope
The definition of insanity, they say, is to do the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Unfortunately, this kind of wheel-spinning practice is all too often seen in the world of mental health and addiction treatment, where people are...
How Reversing Drug Stigmas Can Save Lives: Interview with MDMA: The Movie Director Emanuel Sferios
Emanuel Sferios is the founder of DanceSafe and director of the upcoming feature length documentary MDMA: The Movie. In the first part of our two-part interview with him, we talked to Emanuel about his inspiration behind DanseSafe, why he foresees major changes in...
DanceSafe Founder Emanuel Sferios Discusses Harm Reduction and Festival Drug Testing
Imagine walking into a music festival and being greeted by someone saying, “Welcome to the party, would you like your drugs tested to make sure they are safe?” It might sound crazy to some—or too good to be true to others—but organizations are working towards this in...
An Interview with Maxwell Wieland: The Power of the Psychedelic San Pedro Cactus and Huachuma
San Pedro cactus, also known as huachuma, is a powerful entheogenic plant that hails from the Andes region and has been used ceremonially for centuries in the Americas. A fairly large, spiny, and typical-looking columnar cactus, it would be easy to overlook in the...
What is DMT? Developing A Personal and Cultural Understanding of the Spirit Molecule
“It is so important for us to understand consciousness. It is just as important to place psychedelic drugs in general, and DMT in particular, into a personal and cultural matrix where we do the most good, and the least harm.” - Rick Strassman, MD, and author of DMT:...
New Drug Czar Michael Botticelli Calls War on Drugs a Failure in 60 Minutes Interview
Michael Botticelli is President Obama’s new drug czar, but he wouldn’t want you to call him that. Botticelli, who was appointed unanimously in February of 2015 as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, has a very different take on drug policy and...
LSD and Old Lace: How Psychedelic Therapy Saved Cary Grant
Everyone is a mix of competing personalities. We all have a public face at work, a private one at home, a face we share with friends, and another one with acquaintances. We all have that silent voice that’s only in our heads, the one that constructs and modifies the...
Podcast with Rick Doblin: MAPS Founder on the Past, Present, and Future of Psychedelics
Today, we at Psychedelic Times are very excited to share our first podcast ever. Even more, we're thrilled that it's with one of the most well-respected and influential voices in psychedelic advocacy today — Rick Doblin. Mr. Doblin is the founder and executive...
Intention Setting and Integration: How to Make the Most of a Psychedelic Experience
Integration is arguably the single most important factor in what gives a psychedelic experience lasting therapeutic and personal growth value, rather than being a wild ride that sweeps you up for a few hours before fading away into memory. Many experienced psychonauts...
