Talking Plant is about educating the community at large about the health benefits of cannabis. We want to help dispel the stigma that has permeated through our society about cannabis since the early 1900’s.  We are here to educate on the WAR ON DRUGS and the effects it has had on communities of color all across this country.

In short, we are here to support and advocate for PLANT MEDICINE. Cannabis is a schedule one drug which means, according to the federal government, it has NO MEDICINAL VALUE. That it can be addicting. We all know different.

Today we are expanding our talk about PLANT MEDICINE to include psychedelics as medicine or plant medicine.  Psychedelic agents are experiencing a veritable renaissance. And this time, we’re not talking 1960s counterculture. In recent years a slew of psychedelic agents have filled the drug development pipeline. These therapeutics are being investigated for treating conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. Psychedelic therapeutics have moved from the fringes of medicine to the mainstream

Between 2015 and 2021. 41 states and the federal government adopted these laws. The basic premise is that people with life threatening conditions don’t have time to wait for the long slow process of new drug approval.

In 2018, congress passed The Right to Try Act and it was signed into law by Donald Trump.  But, as we all know about what is happening to cannabis, politics always rears its ugly head when it comes to providing safe access to certain medicines, plant medicines,  to patients who in many cases are in their last stages of life.

Well there was a protest today.  The DEA unfortunately has stepped in and they are prohibiting access to psilocybin.

Psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, is an investigational drug which meets the requirements of duly enacted state and federal law to be available for therapeutic use for those with life threatening conditions.

Why can’t we take the politics out of humanity?  At today’s protest. Politics entered into the lives of cancer patients, some in their 80’s, when they were arrested for protesting. What were they protesting?

They were protesting at the DEA Headquarters in Arlington Virginia to bring attention to the DEA’s failure to open up a pathway to access psilocybin for therapeutic use for those who have life threatening conditions.

It's our own government, the DEA not following the laws of the United States government.  This is the law of the land and Joe Biden’s DEA is not following it.  Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps CEO David Bronner, who has been involved in numerous drug policy reform reform campaigns, also attended.

This is what he said about today’s protest.

“We’re not asking DEA to be compassionate, we’re asking them to follow established law.”

He was also arrested.

So what is Psilocybin? 

What are psychedelics?

Today, on Talking Plant I have Maria Robles, The Psychedelic Mexicana, who is going to talk with us about psychedelics as medicine. She’s going to share with us what she has learned about psychedelics as medicine. 

Welcome back. Today we’re talking about psychedelics as medicine. As I mentioned in the previous segment today there was a protest in Arlington VA at DEA Headquarters about their blockage of patients' access to psilocybin. Psilocybin is the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushtrooms.

Like cannabis, Psilycybin does not have a known mortality dose. You cannot consume enough of it to kill you.

Today I have Maria Robles, the Psychedelic Mexicana as she’s known on Instagram to help understand a little more about psychedelics as medicine.

Maria shared with us about her professional background and told us how it came to be that she came to study psychedelics as medicine. She also talked about other types of plant medicine with psychedelic properties and what investigations are occurring for varied health conditions, both mental and physical.

For anyone who may be considering microdosing psychedelics, she lays out what kind of research you need to do for yourself and what precautions you need to take for a safe experience.