The Trip Report Report

It's a beautiful day in Topanga Canon. The breeze is blowing, the birds are chirping, and as we wait for some extravagantly priced breakfast burritos we're joined for Business Lunch by psychedelic media icon Shelby Hartman. After some of the hottest months in psychedelic capitalism to date, there is much to discuss, and with such special company, no location would be more idyllic than the breathtaking Inn of the Seventh Ray. Despite Kai’s ill timed and quite frankly unprofessional digestional distress (gross) we make the most of our afternoon as we reflect on our president making quips about trying Ibogaine in the Oval Office, the implications of the largest pharma company in the world purchasing ATAI Beckley, and the consequences of drinking unfiltered water from a stream in a fire ravaged canyon.

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This episode features music by East Forest and John Hopkins as well as Poranguí

Sources

Executive Office of the President (Executive Order 14401), “Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness” [2026]. https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-07907.pdf

Transcend Therapeutics (Press Release), “Otsuka Pharmaceutical to Acquire Transcend Therapeutics” [2026]. https://transcendtherapeutics.com/otsuka-pharmaceutical-to-acquire-transcend-therapeutics/

Steve Paulson for Wisconsin Public Radio, “Psilocybin, the ‘God Molecule,’ and the Quest to Revolutionize Mental Health Care” [2022]. https://www.wpr.org/health/mental-health/psilocybin-god-molecule-and-quest-revolutionize-mental-health-care

Porta Sophia, “Third-Party Pre-Issuance Submission and Claims Chart, U.S. Patent Application No. 17/604,610 (Treatment of Depression and Other Various Disorders with Psilocybin)” [2022]. https://www.portasophia.org/files/claims-charts/17604610_3PS_Claims_Chart-Receipt.pdf

Robert B. Kargbo et al. in ACS Omega, “Direct Phosphorylation of Psilocin Enables Optimized cGMP Kilogram-Scale Manufacture of Psilocybin” [2020]. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c02387

Eyk Henning and Madison Muller for Bloomberg, “Lilly Said to Near Deal for Psychedelic Drugmaker AtaiBeckley” [2026]. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-15/lilly-said-to-near-deal-for-psychedelic-drugmaker-ataibeckley

Shelby Hartman and Madison Margolin, “The DoubleBlind Guide to Psychedelics: A Road Map to Tripping, Microdosing, and Beyond” [2026]. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/shelby-hartman/the-doubleblind-guide-to-psychedelics/9781648291791

Compass Pathways, “Change the Tune in TRD” campaign site: https://www.changethetuneintrd.com/

Maryia Zhdanava et al. in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, “The Prevalence and National Burden of Treatment-Resistant Depression and Major Depressive Disorder in the United States” [2021]. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33989464/

National Institute of Mental Health, “Generalized Anxiety Disorder” statistics page: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/generalized-anxiety-disorder

Steve Levine, MD for HCPLive, “COMP360 Safety Data in Phase 3 TRD Trials, With Steve Levine, MD” [2026]. https://www.hcplive.com/view/comp360-safety-data-phase-3-trd-trials-steve-levine-md

Disclaimer

This podcast addresses sensitive subjects, including drugs, addiction, and related topics. The information presented is for educational and entertainment purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

Discussion of drugs, their effects, or methods of consumption does not imply endorsement, encouragement, or promotion by the producers, hosts, guests, or affiliated parties. Use of this podcast implies agreement and understanding that any reliance on material contained herein is at your own risk. The producers, hosts, guests, and affiliated parties are not liable for any damages arising from the use of this podcast.

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We're giving you a taste, a beautiful bite, of what Trip Report Report Reserve listeners are calling a delectable auditory meal. For our first ever Reserve episode, we're exploring aa scandal from an esteemed educational institution of the far east: Penn State. It appears some naughty fraternity boys have been caught up in something of a cocaine trafficking scandal. Oh dear! Later in the episode we explore cocaine use while everyone else is on shrooms and at a "low-grade" strip club probably somewhere in the UK.

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

Sheila Flynn for BBC News, "How Penn State Students Ran an Alleged Cocaine Ring – Until It All Fell Apart" [2026]

Daniel Cody for the New York Post, "13 Penn State Frat Bros Busted in Cocaine Trafficking Ring—Including NY Student at 'Top of the Food Chain'" [2026]

Wickham for Erowid Experience Vaults, "Freezing in Snow" (Cocaine & Cannabis) [2009]

Dominos Corwin for Erowid Experience Vaults, "My First White Pony" (Cocaine & Tobacco) [2008]

Disclaimer

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The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

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Over the last hundred years, cocaine has morphed from a glitzy Hollywood indulgence, to the drug of choice for tens of millions of people worldwide. We discuss the last hundred years of cocaine's history — with no shortage of side quests and indulgences of our own. Later in the episode we cap things off with a report from a very responsible drug user in Las Vegas, and a singularly awesome Erowid poster. Finally, we're giving an update on our mission to get enough podcast reviews that Cheth's Dad will allow us on his yacht (don't call it a boat) for the end of the summer season in St. Barthes.

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Sources Referenced in this Episode:

"United Nations News (Audio), "INCB Celebrates Centennial of the 1912 International Opium Convention" [2012] https://news.un.org/en/audio/2012/03/571962

David T. Courtwright in "Treating Drug Problems" (eds. Dean R. Gerstein and Henrick J. Harwood), ""A Century of American Narcotic Policy"" [1992] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234755/

EBSCO Research Starters, "International Opium Convention Signed" https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/international-opium-convention-signed

Paul Gootenberg, "Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug" [2008]

Donald J. Cantor in the Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology & Police Science, "The Criminal Law and the Narcotics Problem" [1961] https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4977&context=jclc

Malcolm X with Alex Haley, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" [1965]

Steven Hyland for Origins (Ohio State University), "The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking" [2011] https://origins.osu.edu/article/shifting-terrain-latin-american-drug-trafficking

Geoff Ramsey and David Smilde for WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America), "Beyond the Narcostate Narrative: What U.S. Drug Trade Monitoring Data Says About Venezuela" [2020] https://www.wola.org/analysis/beyond-the-narcostate-narrative-venezuela-report/

Michael Demarest for Time, "Cocaine: Middle Class High" [1981] https://time.com/archive/6595044/cocaine-middle-class-high/

David T. Courtwright in the Journal of Policy History, "The Controlled Substances Act: How a 'Big Tent' Reform Became a Punitive Drug Law" [2004]

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), "National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2022–2023" [2024] https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/illicit-use-of-drugs/national-drug-strategy-household-survey-2022-2023/contents/use-of-illicit-drugs

Annie Kelly for The Guardian, "How Big Is Europe's Cocaine Problem — and What Is the Human Cost?" [2024] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/11/how-big-is-europes-cocaine-problem-and-what-is-the-human-cost

OCCRP, "Cocaine Everywhere All at Once: How Drug Production Is Spreading Into Central America, Europe, and Beyond" [2023] https://www.occrp.org/en/project/narcofiles-the-new-criminal-order/cocaine-everywhere-all-at-once-how-drug-production-is-spreading-into-central-america-europe-and-beyond

European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), "Cocaine — The Current Situation in Europe (European Drug Report 2026)" [2026] https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/european-drug-report/2026/cocaine_en

Institute for Security Studies / ENACT (INTERPOL report), "Illicit Trafficking of Cocaine in Western and Northern Africa" https://issafrica.org/enactafrica/research/interpol-reports/illicit-trafficking-of-cocaine-in-western-and-northern-africa

Trip reports

Senseless, "Vegas Baby" on Erowid [2012]

Accident-Prone, "Danger to Myself" on Erowid [2018]

Kung_Fu_Fighting, "I'm So Awesome"" on Erowid [2018]"

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The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

Discussion of drugs, their effects, or methods of consumption does not imply endorsement, encouragement, or promotion by the producers, hosts, guests, or affiliated parties. Use of this podcast implies agreement and understanding that any reliance on material contained herein is at your own risk. The producers, hosts, guests, and affiliated parties are not liable for any damages arising from the use of this podcast.

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Many of us have heard some version of this story, often oversimplified and misconstrued by Hollywood or the mainstream media, content to ignore primary sources in favor of demonizing the drug user. The truth as told by those who lived it goes like this.

In the early 1980s, the CIA coordinated cocaine trafficking operations in order to fund a violent paramilitary group attempting to topple the Nicaraguan government. A significant portion of that product was sold to enterprising drug dealers at bargain prices who processed it into crack, bringing devastation to LA's South Central neighborhood and beyond.

Between August 18th and 20th 1996, Gary Webb published a groundbreaking series of articles titled Dark Alliance, which shed light on this whole affair and brought millions of people to the same conclusion.

On the 30 year anniversary of this historic exposé, we're discussing Webb's findings in detail, outlining how and why the CIA trafficked cocaine into the United States, the key players involved in the explosion of the crack trade, and the devastating repercussions for black communities nationwide.

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Written Sources:

Thomas W. Walker, "Nicaragua: The Land of Sandino" [1981]

Gary Webb, "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion" [1998]

D. Bruce Hicks in Presidential Studies Quarterly, "Presidential Foreign Policy Prerogative After the Iran-Contra Affair: A Review Essay" [1996]

PsychonautWiki, "Cocaine"

Rachel Bannarasee for Chef's Resource, "How to Cook Cocaine into Crack?" [2024]

Rick Ross and Cathy Scott, "Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography" [2014]

Donna M. Hartman and Andrew Golub in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, "The Social Construction of the Crack Epidemic in the Print Media" [1999] https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1999.10471772

Peter Kornbluh for Columbia Journalism Review, "The Storm over 'Dark Alliance'" [1997]

The New York Times (Editorial), "The Mercury News Comes Clean" [1997]

Nicholas Dujmovic in Studies in Intelligence, "Managing a Nightmare: CIA Public Affairs and the Drug Conspiracy Story"

Ryan Grim, Matt Sledge, and Matt Ferner for HuffPost, "Key Figures in CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin to Come Forward" [2014]

Congressional Record, "Proceedings and Debates on CIA and Drug-Trafficking Allegations," 105th Congress [March 18, 1997]

Audio Sources:

CIA Director John Deutch in South Central L.A. 1996.

Freeway Ricky Ross on Rappers Stealing His Name

Gary Webb on Democracy Now

Disclaimer

This podcast addresses sensitive subjects, including drugs, addiction, and related topics. The information presented is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

Discussion of drugs, their effects, or methods of consumption does not imply endorsement, encouragement, or promotion by the producers, hosts, guests, or affiliated parties. The producers, hosts, guests, and affiliated parties are not liable for any damages arising from the use of this podcast.

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We’re back with Cheth to discuss the first ever FLINTA trip reporter in the Western Cannon… Annie C. Meyers

At the turn of the 20th century, Annie was a wealthy society woman living in Chicago when she came down with a head cold. She procured some OTC medication du jour, "Dr Birney's Catarrhal Powder," unaware it contained mostly cocaine. Far from healed, Annie found herself blown into eight years of active addiction, and narrowly avoiding a deadly sanatorium fire!

Later in the episode, we begrudgingly dust off a flagrantly racist (redundant) New York Times article that influenced the passing of one of the United States' first drug prohibition laws, setting the stage for a torrent of racialized drug rhetoric to come. Plus, did we mention Cheth is back?

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Sources:

View the incredible Dr. Birney's Cattarhal Powder advertisements on our website at tripreportreport.com/extras

Annie C. Meyers, "Eight Years in Cocaine Hell" [1902]

Edward Williams M.D. "Negro Cocaine Fiends are a New Southern Menace" in the New York Times, Feb 8th, 1914

Dr. Birney's vials and straws available on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/277912525460?_skw=dr.+birney%27s+catarrhal+powder

Disclaimer:

This podcast addresses sensitive subjects, including drugs, addiction, and related topics. The information presented is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

Discussion of drugs, their effects, or methods of consumption does not imply endorsement, encouragement, or promotion by the producers, hosts, guests, or affiliated parties. The producers, hosts, guests, and affiliated parties are not liable for any damages arising from the use of this podcast.

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Let's just start by saying, you’re welcome. We’ve heard your clamoring, and never expected things would move this fast but… we got the Big Dog in the house and he's off the leash (BARK!)

Thats right folks its Kai, Max and the one and only Cheth in studio, talking about some of the 1st fiends ever reported, including the good Dr. Charles Bradley (no relation), who in the 1880s began a long lineage of men charged with familial neglect in the court of public opinion due to, well, Cocaine. 

Cheth enlightens us as to the origins of his maternal family's great fortune, offers some harrowing details about his *former captain's imprisonment in French Polynesia, and give us an exclusive on an exciting partnership with 2028 Presidential Candidate Gary ! 

Then we explore a journalistic expose on the Boston Drug Store in Chicago, where women were free to buy Schneef “over the counter” at all hours of the night, engaging in such depraved behavior as singing songs, appearing joyful, and getting a moment's reprieve from whatever nonsense they were dealing with back then.

FYI DON'T bring up Maven, the boys are fighting.

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Sources:

Dr. Charles Bradley, "His Own Story" in The Daily Inter-Ocean, Dec 31st, 1887

"A Deadly Drug" in Tuscarora Times-Review, December 4th 1885

"Where Fiends Get Cocaine" in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 13th, 1896

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This podcast addresses sensitive subjects, including drugs, addiction, and related topics. The information presented is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

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Cheth and Maven can talk forEVER about the Roman Empire, but Kai’s barely even heard of it. We talk about what we know best and this episode, that’s the origin of what would become Big Pharma, and the many Friedrichs who made it all possible (plus one classically coked up psychoanalyst).

We chart Merck Pharmaceuticals' initial rise from its inception in the literal dark ages, and discover how a few young marketing dudes at Parke-Davis would create the blueprint for medical marketing, setting off a disastrous chain reaction still felt today. When Max was their age, she'd just learned what "boundaries" were! Then we take a deep breath before diving into everyone’s favorite mama’s boy who, it is said, loved a little bush.

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Directly Quoted: 

Steven B. Karch, "A Brief History of Cocaine" [2006]

Sigmund Freud, "The Cocaine Papers" [1974]

Merck Corporate Communication, "Merck from 1668 to today – daring to embark on a new path”

Background Research:

The Odd Athenaeum, "Cocaine: The Early Years"

Disclaimer

This podcast addresses sensitive subjects, including drugs, addiction, and related topics. The information presented is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

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We’re back in a BIG way, taking you to a time before posh-goth ravers would bashfully ask for a bump on the dancefloor. In this episode we explore the coca leaf’s nearly 10,000 year history before being synthesized into the crystalline form known as Cocaine.

We begin with high in the Andes Mountains, reading from an account of a coca laden llama fertility ritual, led by members of the Atacameño. Then we do our darnedest reciting funky verse poetry from the 1600's, and get into a trip report from an unhinged Italian doctor who would have traded ETERNITY for a little more time with “this little bush” ;)

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Directly Quoted: 

Video showing traditional Coca leaf consumption method: https://www.lacma.org/guides/portableuniverse/02

Stacy Shaefer, "Shamans, peyote, and coca sacraments: a path that maintains indigenous traditions and identity in a time of globalization"

Garcilaso de la Vega translated by Harold Livermore, "Royal Commentaries of the Incas"(Book 8, Chapter 15)

Abraham Cowley "Six Books of Plants" [1689]

Paolo Mantegazza in "The Coca Leaf and Cocaine Papers," edited by George Andrews and David Solomun

Alex on Erowid, "Chewed Coca Leaves in Ceylon"

Background Research:

Melissa Murphy et al., "A Bioarchaeological study of Coca Use and Coca Leaf Chewing at Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru"

Dawson M White et al., "The Origins of Coca: Museum Genomics Reveals Multiple Independent Domestications from Progenitor Erythroxylum gracilipes"

Tom Dillehay et al., "Early Holocene coca chewing in northern Peru"

Disclaimer:

This podcast addresses sensitive subjects, including drugs, addiction, and related topics. The information presented is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

Discussion of drugs, their effects, or methods of consumption does not imply endorsement, encouragement, or promotion by the producers, hosts, guests, or affiliated parties. The producers, hosts, guests, and affiliated parties are not liable for any damages arising from the use of this podcast.

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It's the crossover you didn't know you needed. We pulled out all the stops to convince embattled LA eatery, Horses, to reopen for one final business lunch. We sit down at this hyper exclusive luncheon to get the download on Michelle Lhooq's most bullish trades. Our discussion ranges from Beckley Foundation founder Amanda Feilding's experimental self-trepanation, to German billionaires funding the steroid Olympics.

Subscribe to Michelle's excellent Substack, Rave New World: https://ravenewworld.substack.com/; and follow her on Instagram @michellelhooq / @ravenewworldwide

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

Matt Simon for Wired, "Inside the Mind of Amanda Feilding, Countess of Psychedelic Science"

Kiran Sidhu for Filter Mag, "The “Queen of Consciousness” Driving Psychedelic Study and Advocacy"

Christopher Turner for Cabinet, "Like a Hole in the Head"

Charles André for Sci Elo Brazil, "Evolving story: trepanation and self-trepanation to enhance brain function"

James Rucker et al., "Phase 1, placebo-controlled, single ascending dose trial to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics and effect on altered states of consciousness of intranasal BPL-003 (5-methoxy- N,N-dimethyltryptamine benzoate) in healthy participants"

David Meyer for Fortune, "A 36-year-old CEO saw how psychedelics treated his best friend’s mental illness. Now his Peter Thiel-funded firm wants to bring the drugs to the masses"

Disclaimer

This podcast addresses sensitive subjects, including drugs, addiction, and related topics. The information presented is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

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Engage with the content responsibly, critically, and with an open mind. If you or someone else is struggling with substance abuse or addiction, please seek professional help immediately.

We sit down at one of the most storied institutions on Hollywood Boulevard for a sprawling conversation spanning Compass Pathways, the psychedelic sector, and which gas station virility pills sent one of us to the urgent care. Later in the hour, Max auditions an array of drops in hopes of gaining Kai's coveted seal of approval. Is today her lucky day? Tune in to find out!

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

Osamu Shirota et al.,""Concise Large-Scale Synthesis of Psilocin and Psilocybin, Principal Hallucinogenic Constituents of “Magic Mushroom”"

Guy M. Goodwin et al., "Single-Dose Psilocybin for a Treatment-Resistant Episode of Major Depression"

Compass Pathways Press Release, "Compass Pathways Successfully Achieves Primary Endpoint in First Phase 3 Trial Evaluating COMP360 Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression"

Abigail Beaney, "Psychedelic drug developers redesign trials to avoid Lykos faux pas"

Vanina Papova et al.,"Efficacy and Safety of Flexibly Dosed Esketamine Nasal Spray Combined With a Newly Initiated Oral Antidepressant in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Double-Blind Active-Controlled Study"

Disclaimer

This podcast addresses sensitive subjects, including drugs, addiction, and related topics. The information presented is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice.

The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

Discussion of drugs, their effects, or methods of consumption does not imply endorsement, encouragement, or promotion by the producers, hosts, guests, or affiliated parties. The producers, hosts, guests, and affiliated parties are not liable for any damages arising from the use of this podcast.

Engage with the content responsibly, critically, and with an open mind. If you or someone else is struggling with substance abuse or addiction, please seek professional help immediately.