Listen to my interview on SCHIZOTOPIA.POD
On drugism, biopiracy, McWeed, ketamine geopolitics, Eleusinian classism, St. Peter's Snow, + more
A new episode of SCHIZOTOPIA.POD just dropped featuring an extended interview with yours truly.
You can listen to it here.
Big thanks to Maxwell for having me on and asking some great questions!
This is the first podcast I’ve been featured on and I deeply appreciate Maxwell + SCHIZOTOPIA for giving me room to nerd out about some drug stuff :) You can follow SCHIZOTOPIA.POD on Twitter here.
TIMELINE OF TOPICS DISCUSSED:
Personal background, drugism, etc.:
01:40 - What is Drugism?
02:20 - US drug culture
03:00 - Salt as the original drug
05:00 - Pot use at 14
06:45 - Personal background with music
08:20 - Music + drug culture
11:30 - We agree the gateway theory of drug use is trash
13:00 - “Gatekeeper” drugs
Drugs as commodities:
15:00 - Cannabis culture, weed as commodity
16:00 - Maxwell’s experience with weed (some funny stories in here!)
23:00 - McWeed
25:00 - Historical precedents; coffee prohibition, tobacco prohibition, etc
26:00 - Licensing system in early days of tobacco legalization
Ketamine:
26:50 - Ketamine history
31:00 - Jackson Prison ketamine sessions
32:00 - Elliot Luby, Edward Domino, + ketamine bureaucracy
33:30 - Is ketamine dangerous?
34:40 - Mystical Medicine/Wicked Weapon: A Both/And Approach to Ketamine
35:20 - How loosening of FDA restrictions during pandemic allowed at-home mail-order ketamine therapy to take off
37:20 - Recent rise in illicit ketamine production in Southeast Asia
39:00 - China + ketamine geopolitics
40:40 - Deng Xiaoping; ketamine enters China
42:20 - The Triads enter the ketamine business
44:00 - the Boshe raid; China cracks down on ketamine
45:00 - China tries to ban ketamine globally
45:30 - Production shifts to Myanmar + Pakistan
46:30 - Keith Ablow; ketamine as weapon of sexual abuse
50:20 - possible ketamine/CIA connections
54:40 - the importance of addressing abuse in the psychedelic industry
55:50 - Ketamine risk of OD; Lethal ketamine OD at hands of paramedics + cops
Biopiracy + drugs:
57:15 - Biopiracy, drugs, etc.
58:20 - What is biopiracy?
59:00 - Psychedelic industry as prime example of biopiracy
DMT:
1:00:00 - DMT + habitual use
1:01:00 - Personal experience with DMT
1:04:30 - Millennials + Erowid
1:06:00 - DMT withdrawals?
1:11:00 - Media portrayal vs. realities of use
1:13:50 - DMT + trauma
1:14:00 - Chasing the thrill of DMT’s existential kick
1:15:20 - Re: DMT + trauma
Eleusinian Mysteries, classism, etc.:
1:16:00 - Legacy of Eleusinian Mysteries in modern psychedelic research
1:19:00 - Eleusinian Mysteries as classist hierarchy (see also 1:28:00)
Drugs + dystopian literature:
1:19:55 - Stand on Zanzibar + John Brunner’s psychedelic sci-fi
1:21:50 - St. Peter’s Snow + Leo Perutz’s acid authoritarianism
1:25:30 -Brave New World + Aldous Huxley’s vision for social engineering; Huxley’s family connections
1:27:00 - The Nova Express + William S. Burroughs’s psychedelic warning
Wrap-up
1:28:00 - Psychedelic industry as modern Eleusis
1:30:00 - My position on drugs: legalize + regulate!
1:31:00 -Shout-outs: Katherine MacLean, Ifetayo Harvey, + Sasha Sisko
Thanks for listening!
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