Sam is a combat veteran who served two tours of duty as a marine in Afghanistan in the Helmand province, the center of worldwide opium production.
He went to Peru for an ayahuasca dieta and Mexico for other medicines.
Sam talks about his personal healing journey and how he would like to see the medicines available and integrated in to society. He offers a vision for veteran healing using the National Park System.
Ryan is a combat veteran who served as a marine in Iraq and sustained injuries resulting in a purple heart. He was a key advocate who got PTSD added as a qualification to the medical cannabis program in Maine in 2013.
Ryan was part of the group of veterans that protested the VA’s policy on medical cannabis which was featured in the episode Stoned Vets on Weediquette on Viceland in 2016.
Ryan went to Mexico in December for bufo and dmt working with other veterans. He returned this January from a 21 dieta in Peru working with ayahuasca and mapacho (peruvian tobacco).
Carol Gilson and Jordon Stanford join us to share what is like to give thousands of people ketamine treatments along with therapeutic support.
We talk about the future of ketamine and psychedelics in America and how we can integrate them in to society.
They share some of their own personal journeys and what the psychedelic retreat center of the future could look like.
Bryan shares his experiences serving in the military as a Forward Observer and Blackhawk Helicopter Crew Chief in Iraq.
He tells his story of returning from combat with PTSD and using alcohol, opiates and pharmaceuticals to treat himself and finding a higher and deeper path with natural plant medicines (cannabis, mushrooms, dmt and 5-meo-dmt).
Bryan tells us how we can move forward to deliver full medical and spiritual freedom in Texas and the US.
Ten months of quarantine from our inaugural podcast and we are back live with Episode 1.0 of the Psychedelic Timeshare – The Deep State Strikes Back. We discuss covid, the drug war, big tech, universal basic income, censorship, the Buffalo Shaman and more.
Featuring Amy Rising, Ian Benouis, Jesse Gould and Matt Kahl
https://chacruna.net/drank-ayahuasca-american-war-veterans/ I am one of the veterans in this article originally published in 2016. Both of us were mentioned anonymously.
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