Elisabeth McKay

Welcome everybody to another episode of Decoded.

Today we are talking about medicine journeys.

I realize this episode is probably going to be fairly divisive.

We all know that I'm not afraid of doing that here.

So I want to set some ground rules for what my intention is going into this.

And maybe a good point of reference, I did a podcast on one called The Psychedelic Report with Dr. Dave Rabin, who I very much admire.

And we have a really great conversation about psychedelics on that one, where I go a lot more into the childhood origins that, to me, predispose somebody to not be a candidate for psychedelics.

So if you want to go a little bit deeper into that,

the brain pattern elements of who it could be for and who it's not for, we dive very deeply into that.

So the podcast itself is called The Psychedelic Report with Dr. Dave Rabin.

Today's episode, my goal is to help us establish when there may be a more sinister narrative behind pushing or putting something up on a pedestal.

If we look back at the early 2020s, it's probably the first time that I started fairly loudly sounding the alarm about this because I was seeing the trend and the uptick in people engaging in psychedelics that, in my opinion, are not good candidates for psychedelics.

So I want to make sure that we're clear.

This episode is about...

Highlighting the concern, understanding where there may be a more sinister underbelly of psychedelics, and not to say that they're inherently bad.

I think there's a time and a place for quite a few things.

But I've noticed a trend that I think puts many people in a very dangerous psychological situation.

position that they had no business being in and our society normalizing things like medicine journeys is partly responsible for why this has happened.

I think it's important for us to connect this uptick in psychedelics to a normalization of weed culture because I don't think you can separate the two of them.

The normalization of weed culture very much made the way for psychedelics to kind of come alongside that.