Psymposia sits down with Thought Slime to chat about carving out a leftist space in psychedelia.

Co-hosts: Neşe Devenot, David Nickles, Brian Pace, Russell Hausfeld. Editor: Matt Payne

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Contents of this podcast

Reasons for reaching out to Thought Slime

"Making the world a harder place to have a bad trip"

Introductions / Why we care about psychedelics

Drug Exceptionalism / Criminalization

History of McDonald's mascot, Grimace

Corporadelia

Dose the Water 2.0

What is "Corporate Harm Reduction"?

Psychdedelic authoritarians and the Nazi roots of the term "psychonaut"

Psychedelic conferences and Leftist perspectives in psychedelia

The DMT Nexus

COMPASS Pathways' conflicts

Martin Ball Saga

BreadTube

Parasocial relationships

Cultural appropriation of psychedelics

Public Opulence

Ethics struggles in criminalized spaces

Anarchy /Anarchism

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