Will Brendza is a long-time Rooster writer, investigative journalist, producer, and psychonaut. Every month, he interviews people within, adjacent to, and blasting off from the psychedelic industry/community — both in Colorado and around the country. Some guests will be scientists. Some will be entrepreneurs starting the first legal psychedelic businesses in the US. There will be professors, mystics, eccentrics, criminals, cons, recovered addicts, degenerates, celebrities, academics, and more. Every guest will offer a different angle and perspective on the psychedelic movement and industry.
Kevin Franciotti explains how Ibogaine therapy helped him kick his heroin addiction
Many Coloradans probably look at the psychedelic drugs we've legalized and think to themselves, "WTF is Ibogaine?" In short: it's a psychedelic derived from an African shrub that lasts for up to 24 hours, and sends you to the strangest, darkest realms of your inner consciousness. AND, importantly, it has a strange and mysterious knack for helping people overcome addictions of all kinds. In episode three of American Psychonaut, Rooster sits down with journalist and ibogaine advocate Kevin Franciotti to talk about the psychedelic African shrub Tabernanthe iboga, its strange properties, and how it helped him overcome a serious heroin addiction. He'll be directing the first Psychedelics & Recovery Summit in October.
31 Aug 2023
Dennis McKenna talks stoned apes, and ethnopharmacology
Dennis McKenna has been about as deep into the psychedelic realm as a psychonaut can get. But growing up in Paonia, Colorado he and his brother Terrance had to keep all that on the DL. In the decades since he's not only been a leading voice in the psychedelic activism and advocacy worlds, he's an ethnopharmacologist, author, professor and heady conversationalist. He joined Rooster shortly after the Psychedelic Science Conference 2023 for a conversation about our mushroom-hungry ancestors, the merging of ancient practice and modern science around psychedelic therapy, and his ethnobiological research school, the McKenna Academy. Check out his website here: https://mckenna.academy/ (https://mckenna.academy/)
1 Jun 2023
Rick Doblin tees up a "Doorway to a New World"
The podcast's very first guest is Dr. Rick Doblin, the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Dr. Doblin is often referred to as the godfather of psychedelic medicine, he's been a pioneer in MDMA therapy and research for decades. And this June he's helping host the Denver Psychedelic Conference 2023. If you're interested in attending, listen in for an exclusive Rooster discount code for tickets.
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