Robert Johnson

to be able to go and buy some of these products that are being sold in smoke shops.

And people are sending them straight to the lab, too.

So that's another way of being super extra cautious if you want it to be.

But Reddit is always where the online community, if you don't have one locally.

Yeah, I hear that all the time, and that's where we're going, right?

When I'm writing about the business of psychedelics, one major difference between cannabis and psychedelics is the interest of pharmaceutical companies.

And major companies are investing billions of dollars into creating new novel compounds that act similar to psychedelics.

And a lot of times they're looking for ways to remove the psychedelic effects so it could still have

the regenerative properties on your brain.

Maybe you'll be able to prevent stuff like Alzheimer's and dementia, which is super common now.

And so I'm all for it.

If a pharmaceutical company can figure out how to stop or prevent dementia and Alzheimer's, I've had plenty of family members go through that.

And it's not pretty.

But because there's so much research going into it and so much money going into it, now you're creating a massive demand.

You know, everybody from Oprah to Joe Rogan is talking about their psychedelic experience on complete opposite sides of the political spectrum.

And I've said, like, if psychedelic mushrooms were running for president, win in a landslide.

You know, we can't agree more.

on Republican or Democrat, but this is one thing that people are agreeing about.

I think the microdosing definitely takes some of the risk and fear out of it.

And then also, yeah, having cannabis be that real gateway drug.