Robert Johnson

Drugs love a jaw.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think that's, that's really fair to say.

Thanks for having me on the show, Tom.

Yeah, that's probably like the biggest perk about writing about the business of psychedelics is getting free psychedelics to try.

You know, from all sorts of different companies, I get to see everything that's out there.

And, you know, we're always testing products to, you know, keep everybody honest and make sure that, you know,

in an unregulated industry that people are still acting right.

You know, I think that my experience in cannabis made me kind of sour about at least how that rolled out in California.

And truth be told, I thought I was running a lot better before it became legal here in the state.

So, yeah, you know, with the functional mushrooms, I feel like are a lot like CBD got a lot of attention when cannabis started to roll out legal in different states for adult use.

And now I think functional mushrooms are really having a moment in the sun because of so much interest in psychedelic mushrooms.

And then people finding similar to CBD and THC, it looks like, oh, wow, these functional mushrooms do a lot of the same stuff that psychedelics do and that they're good for your brain, they're good for your body without the psychedelic effects.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So functional, adaptogenic, medicinal mushrooms.

These are all different things that are used to describe mushrooms that have been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years.

And one that gets a lot of attention, I think, because the one because the name is so badass is Lion's Mane.

Right.

And so the Lion's Mane, it looks like it doesn't look like your typical stem and cap.