Paul Stamets

So the initiative passed, which is huge.

It's huge.

It's a promising step in the direction of understanding that a lot of the division that we have in this country is artificial.

It's manufactured.

Yeah, well, I think my friend Sturgill Simpson sort of opened up the door for psychedelics and country music with Turtles All the Way Down.

He basically wrote a song about God and psychedelics.

That was a country song.

And everybody's like, hey, what the hell's going on?

Right.

Well, marijuana is also associated with lazy people and ne'er-do-wells.

stinky people with bad ideas you know unfortunately and I think you know look there's a one of the things that's interesting is the jiu-jitsu community is there's a whole lot of stoners in the jiu-jitsu community

Oh, yeah.

Well, I know a bunch of people who have fought on mushrooms.

I have a friend who was a world-class kickboxer who had some of his greatest performances while he was fighting on mushrooms.

And he said he could see what the guy was going to do before he did it.

A nail on an ice pick.

So you have the point of the ice pick.

You've got to hit that nail at the very point.

That's extremely important.

It also alleviates the anxiety that comes before performance.