Joe Rogan

I mean, I just think our modern perception of it, which is very tainted by what happened during the Nixon administration where they were trying to squash the hippie movement, the anti-war movement, and the civil rights movement.

And that's why they demonized these drugs, these compounds.

And that's why they put them in this category of having no medicinal use, which is clearly not accurate.

Yeah.

It doesn't mean that they should just be given to everyone and everyone should do them with no restrictions and no regulations.

It just means we should understand that they have a long history of human use and have spectacular results on all sorts of things that our society is suffering from greatly.

And to just pretend that that's not the case based on what happened in the 1970s is just insane.

It doesn't make any sense.

What I think is fascinating about the age that we're living in is that change comes very slowly, but it comes much faster when you have the kind of access to information that people have today.

And I don't think this conversation was possible 20 years ago.

And that's kind of amazing.

No way.

It's kind of amazing.

And I don't think that there was a format for this conversation 20 years ago.

This format has occurred because of the age of information, because of the Internet, because

And because there's no gatekeepers anymore.

And because people have the choice to decide what they want to consume, what they want to listen to.

And to be able to be a part of that, to me, is an incredible privilege.

And to be able to have you guys on and to have this conversation and to recognize that the reason why this is possible is because...

for a lack of a better term, the world's waking up.