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>> American astronomer Carl
Edward Sagan was best known

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from his show called
"Cosmos," as the spokesman

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for the responsible
use of science,

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his interest in
extraterrestrial intelligence,

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and the eloquent way he
simplified complex concepts

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to the world.

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However, a little known fact
about the late, great thinker

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was his ritual use of cannabis.

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His love for this plant
caused for a few quotes of his

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to be immortalized regarding
the absurdity of its illegality,

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the ability for its effects
to improve experiences

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of food, art, and lovemaking.

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He spoke of the
possibility that cannabis,

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or the textile producing parts
of the plant known as hemp,

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as humanity's oldest
cultivated crop,

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and that it may have led to
the invention of agriculture,

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thereby leading to its
roots of civilization.

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Could a simple
psychoactive and textile

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crop have been given
so much acclaim,

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or is there more to this
plant than meets the eye?

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>> Cannabis, in my view,
is another of the great

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and powerful teacher plants.

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We cannot really argue that
cannabis is a psychedelic,

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although at high dosages, with--

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particularly with
individuals who

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are not experienced
with cannabis--

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the experience is
pretty close to a full

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on psychedelic experience.

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It can be.

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But you know, I think
that the natural world

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has been bounteous to us.

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It has provided us with--

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well, of course, all our food
and clothing and everything

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comes out of nature,
and has provided us

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with these substances
that alter consciousness

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as well, which humanity has
had a long relationship with.

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>> There are so many terms for
this plant today that it seems

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each passing generation and
cultural clique refreshes its

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terminology.

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>> It's called ganja.

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>> The combination of
mindfulness and marijuana--

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>> We hang out, we talk,
we kind of break the ice.

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>> The class opens with students
sampling cannabis products.

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>> But how far back can we find
evidence of man's use of hemp

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or cannabis, and what might
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>> Well, as far as
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you know, hemp fibers
and the use of hemp--

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that goes back, according
to the foremost expert

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on ancient textiles, Elizabeth
Whalen Barber, to about 25,000,

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28,000 years ago.

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And this is in the
form of tools used

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for breaking up hemp fibers.

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We have evidence of
hemp cloth going back

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at least 12,000 years, very,
very widespread, you know.

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The use of cannabis
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be followed by the spread
of Indo-European language,

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and we're talking about the
root language of French,

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German, English, Sanskrit.

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Wherever it goes,
as soon it's there,

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it starts taking on new names.

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You know, the giver of delights,
the end of sorrow, the gift,

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the secret, you know,
all these different names

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start coming into play.

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>> In 1936, a Polish
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Sula Benet, proposed that the
biblical term kaneh bosm was

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misinterpreted by the Greek
and Latin translators as being

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the marsh root calamus, which
commonly grew everywhere

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throughout the Middle East.

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But cannabis was not
native to this region.

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>> In the Old
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a kaneh is specifically
described as something coming

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from a distant land and that's
why I would suggest that

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the Indo-European term,
kaneh, followed it.

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It came with that name
as an item of trade,

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and we know that
Scythians and other groups

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were trading in the
area of the region

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from archeological evidence.

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>> The term Scythian identifies
a collection of nomadic tribes

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that were cannabis using tribes.

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They even were over in India
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from about 400 BC
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And it's interesting,
because Ithithians in India

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adopted the worship of Shiva,
a god associated with cannabis.

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Some ancient texts refer
to Buddha as a Sacae,

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and Sacae's the Persian
name for the Scythians.

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And so there's this
whole connection

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that he may have been
a Persian prince.

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And in some of the
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it's also written that he
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before coming to his
divine revelations.

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>> Why would this single plant
be found in so many ancient

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cultures, riddled
throughout religions,

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and seen as a divine sacrament?

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Could a psychoactive
experience be worth enough

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to trade this plant across a
5,000 mile stretch of land,

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or is there more to this
plant than we've been told?

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>> There are so many uses
of this amazing plant,

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cannabis sativa.

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You could eat the leaves.

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A lot of people don't know
that just eating the leaves

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could be juiced, and
made into a salad.

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You can eat the seeds,
they're high in protein.

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They're high in
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You could be feeding this
plant for livestock feed

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to your goats and chickens
and horses and cows.

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We could be using this
plant to make a rope.

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It makes a very,
very strong rope.

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>> The use of hemp for
cordage and rope has been seen

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in hunter gatherer groups all
the way up until World War II.

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>> Thus plans are afoot for
a great expansion of the hemp

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industry as a part
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This film is designed
to tell farmers

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how to handle this ancient
crop, now little known

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outside Kentucky and Wisconsin.

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This is Manila hemp, from
the Navy's rapidly dwindling

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reserve.

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When that is gone, American
hemp will go on duty again.

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Hemp for mooring ships,
hemp for towlines.

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>> But as technology
compounded upon itself

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in the post-industrial
era, newer and more useful

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applications of the
hemp plant have emerged.

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Radio host and
researcher Max Egan

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has been using this plant
medicinally for himself

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and his community
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and speaks publicly around
the world about its many uses.

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>> We can make plastics
out of cannabis.

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We can make paper
out of cannabis.

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The best quality materials,
as strong as denim and as soft

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as silk.

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Everything you can think of,
we can make of this plant.

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Half of old Cairo is
built from cannabis.

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You can get the hurd, mix it
with lime, and it petrifies.

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What other plant will
petrify into stone

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and allow you to
build houses from it?

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This is what this plant can
do, it's an incredible plant.

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And you can grow
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and it'll produce a crop that
will do all that stuff in three

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months rather than tearing our
forests down and ripping up

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our landscapes and doing
all the things we're doing.

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>> Logging has become a
multi-billion dollar industry

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and employs almost 1 million
people in the US alone.

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In the past 30
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has destroyed a plot
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of Germany in the Brazilian
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If industrial hemp weren't
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in nearly every country
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from corporate interests,
much of these issues

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could be diminished or
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But for some reason,
this highly useful plant

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is shunned on a cultural level,
illegal on a federal level,

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and feared on an industry level.

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>> The reason cannabis is banned
is because it would destroy

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most of the most profitable
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were it legalized, and
unfortunately these are all

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some of the most pollutive
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as well.

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>> So, I can see why this
is really a threat to a lot

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of industries.

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There's one plant that
could solve so many

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of our environmental
problems and grows so easily.

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I don't know another
plant that does this.

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>> The benefits of cannabis have
been speculated for generations

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that existed in times less bound
by the burden of scientific

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proof.

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Today, as several
countries around the world

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are loosening the
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the scientific
data is pouring in.

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Dr. Joe Cohen has been
researching the many healing

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qualities through case studies
and personally overseeing

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the results in patients.

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>> Most of my research related
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patient experiences.

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I've been practicing
cannabis medicine

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for close to eight
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seen thousands of patients.

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So I often see patients
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and one area that I work a lot
with is autoimmune disease.

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>> Autoimmune disease is
characterized by the body

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producing antibodies, which in
turn attacks its own tissues.

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This confusion of
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is often seen when diet is
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and the health of
the gut microbiome

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has an imbalance of unhealthy
bacteria and not enough healthy

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flora.

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However, great advancements
in treating the symptoms

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has been seen with the many
compounds found in cannabis.

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>> So, there is over 400
different parts of a cannabis

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plant, chemicals in the plant,
of which probably 85 to 100 are

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cannabinoids, like THC,
and cannabidiol, CBD,

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which has become very popular.

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And then on top of that,
we have probably a couple

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hundred different terpenes.

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Terpenes are in a lot
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that gives flavor
and odor to things.

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So when you smell
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you're actually
smelling terpenes.

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They actually
modulate-- modify--

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the effects of the
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And then there's flavonoids.

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So, we're talking about over
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and they all kind
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to give the effect that
you are looking for.

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>> As with all other
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the different chemical
properties alter the types

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of feelings and
effects one receives,

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creating a symphonic effect
where no one ingredient is

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given full credit for the high.

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The THC molecule found in
all strains of cannabis

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affects the body and mind the
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So, the reason every
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affects people differently
has to do with the terpenes.

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And this symphony
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also accounts for the numerous
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found in clinical research.

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>> The most profound thing that
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it can treat so many
different disorders,

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and that's really related
to the fact that we have

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an endocannabinoid system.

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We produce our own cannabinoids.

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Animals have been
producing cannabinoids

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for 600 million
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didn't arrive until about
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>> The endocannabinoid system
in our body contains specific

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receptors in the mammalian
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system that not only
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the psychoactive effects,
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a healthy homeostasis
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One of the hallmarks
of this effect

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is most notable in the
increase in appetite

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after ingesting cannabis.

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>> Why does weed
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Why do you get the munchies?

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And it's because you have a
chemical mechanism in you that

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keeps you alive that says, hey
dude, you're kind of running

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low on nutrients, and if you
want this machine to keep

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running, fuel me up.

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And the longer you disregard
that internal chemical message,

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the more that chemical pain
increases and chemically

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forces you to eat.

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That's what hunger is, and
it's keeping you alive,

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and it's this natural
balancing mechanism.

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And it's balanced
on cannabinoids.

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The heaviest amount
of cannabinoids

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that humans produce
is in breast milk,

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cause it feeds the building
blocks of life to children.

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Balances also all
of your receptors--

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your electronic mechanisms.

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We were always told in
school by the $1.3 billion

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monopoly a year, DARE, that
cannabis kills brain cells.

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Well, it's the opposite.

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It's actually
neurological protectants.

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>> It's what we
call an adaptogen.

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An adaptopogenic herb is
something that tries to create

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balance in our body.

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So, this is an herbal
medicine, a plant medicine,

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that actually has
the same chemical

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structure as our
own cannabinoids,

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and it tries to keep
everything in balance.

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Cannabinoids travel in
a reverse direction.

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They go retrograde
through the synapse,

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and by going retrograde through
the synapse, what they're

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actually doing is they're
slowing down the hypersystem

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and they're speeding
up the hyposystem,

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and therefore creating balance.

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>> The beauty of this
adaptogenic herb is

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in the intelligence of how
it knows to bring biological

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processes back into balance.

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It has an ability to listen
and respond to its environment

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in order to bring
balance and growth.

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Through our
endocannabinoid system,

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we are hardwired to
listen and respond,

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meaning we have an
ancient symbiotic language

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with cannabinoids.

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And the fact that a
specific tree that

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can grow to full maturity
in one year with healing

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properties in its very structure
is truly remarkable, even

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for the whole of
the plant kingdom.

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Although cannabis is not
a classic psychedelic that

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works on the serotonin
2A receptors,

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it's the ability of the
flowers of this tree

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to bend the mind in so
many different ways that

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deserves deeper investigation.

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>> Cannabis is much
more, in my opinion,

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about sensual experience, about
realizing the full potential

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of our sensuality.

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And when I say sensuality,
I don't only mean sex,

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I'm also talking
about appreciation

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of food, appreciation of music.

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Stuff that our ears and our
eyes have been shut off to

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suddenly comes in and we realize
what majesty we live amongst.

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Cannabis can play that role.

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>> When used with the right set
and setting and the right skill

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set, cannabis can
mimic psilocybin.

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It can mimic Ayahuasca and DNT.

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It can also mimic the
empathogens, like MDMA.

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And so from my experience,
it's also a little slower

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than other
psychedelics, so we can

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have a capacity to develop
those skill sets like navigation

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or capacity or focus in
overwhelming situations,

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or the capacity to engage
strong emotional experiences.

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And then those
skill sets can then

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be translated to other
psychedelic medicines.

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So, cannabis is like a bridge
to other psychedelic medicines,

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but it's also its
own sacred substance.

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Its own sacred medicine.

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It's gentler on the body.

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It has shorter
experiences, so people

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who have compromised physical
bodies can use it safely,

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and it can also be
used more regularly

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than other psychedelics.

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>> The fact that cannabis
can elicit different effects

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depending on the
way it's ingested,

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the mindset going in, and
the type of setting it's done

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in, shows a versatility not
typically seen with other

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psychoactive plants.

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Cannabis can induce visuals,
euphoria, relaxation,

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or even heightened alertness.

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However, it can also
cause anxiety, paranoia,

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and short term memory fog.

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But these are not always
adverse side effects,

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as they mimic the
ability of psychedelics

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to dredge up trauma
from deep in the psyche.

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Some of the skills people bring
to these kinds of difficulties

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are breathing techniques or
movement like dance or Qigong.

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In modern applications,
biohackers and extreme athletes

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have come up with their
own uses for cannabis.

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Personal trainer and
podcast host Ben Greenfield

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has been using this plant
to aid in his highly

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competitive sports lifestyle.

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>> I'm a hard charging,
high achiever,

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trying to live this limitless
life of racing and traveling

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and speaking and writing, and
it's hard to turn the mind off

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at the end of the day.

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And I initially found cannabis,
and frankly, CBD, not even

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THC to be useful for that.

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I began micro dosing
with smaller amounts

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prior to workouts.

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CBD is an interesting
molecule in that it currently

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is not banned by the World
Anti-Doping Association

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or by the US Anti-Doping
Association or many

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of the governing
bodies of sport,

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which, for me, as a
professional athlete,

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is something that's important,
because I'm able to use it

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for those purposes
without having

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to worry about in-season pee
tests or anything like that.

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And for CBD, there's
a host of research

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now on not just the relaxation
and the anti-inflammatory

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effects, but also the
beneficial hormonal effects,

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the beneficial effects on
muscle response the training,

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the beneficial effects on
everything from testosterone

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to a slight increase
in fat mobilization

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to all sorts of things
that serve an athlete well.

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But when you look at
something like off season use

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of cannabis, I began to realize
that THC, the more psychoactive

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component, is actually something
that served me quite well

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for writing and for creativity.

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And so I would say that from a
creative production standpoint,

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I've found that both micro
and admittedly macro dosing

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with THC has been
something that's been

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really helpful in that regard.

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>> Cannabis, in my opinion,
can be used as a performance

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enhancing drug.

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It tends to help me elicit
flow states more readily,

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kind of calms my
mind, helps me relax.

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But the mental
clarity that really

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comes from it is probably
why I micro dose anything,

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is for that mental clarity.

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Really getting
out of my own way,

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stopping the self-judgment,
stopping the self-criticism.

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Those are really my
biggest barriers.

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>> Flow states are spoken about
intensively in Steven Kotler

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and Jamie Wheal's books,
"The Rise of Superman,"

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and "Stealing Fire."

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They are typified by the
zone that athletes, dancers,

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musicians, and even
meditators find themselves

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in when the task they're
performing becomes effortless.

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Time slows down, analysis goes
quiet, and intuition guides

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each decision.

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And though these flow states
can be brought on simply

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through mental discipline
or breathing techniques,

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another reliable way is through
micro dosing psychedelic

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plants.

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But how is it that
cannabis can enhance

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mental clarity, when the
cultural stigma claims

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the opposite?

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>> Innocently, they danced.

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Innocent of a new and
deadly menace lurking

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behind closed doors.

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[GONG RINGING]

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>> Marijuana, the burning
weed with its roots in hell.

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>> The reefer madness stereotype
is anti-hemp propaganda,

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there's no truth to it.

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And now that cannabis
is legal in many places,

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medical cannabis as well
as recreational cannabis,

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we have statistical evidence
that violent crime is reduced,

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that opiate use and
opiate deaths are reduced,

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and even DUIs and intoxicated
driving is reduced.

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So, the anti-cannabis
hysteria is simply

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propaganda to prohibit
the production of hemp,

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to protect corporate interests.

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They used racism and showed
out of control behavior

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and put it on something
that they couldn't otherwise

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challenge.

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>> Daniel McQueen founded
medicinal mindfulness,

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which specializes in the
spiritual and therapeutic

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application of psychedelics
or breathing techniques

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in the Boulder, Colorado area.

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>> In regards to set and
setting with cannabis,

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we bring in a gratitude prayer
when we imbibe the medicine,

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and we sit in a circle.

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And we're calling and energies
and ways of being that

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support a psychedelic
journey work.

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And this is far from--

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like, the exact opposite
extreme of recreational use

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or unconscious use
or habitual use.

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We're not just sitting there
feeling stoned or blissed out.

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There's some real significant
psychological, spiritual,

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and energetically
healing and life

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transforming occurrences
happening in the psyche

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and in the body.

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And we turn towards
those experiences

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instead of using the
medicine to check out

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from those experiences.

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>> By creating a healing
intention or a safe space

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to enter deeply mystical realms,
circles such as these are

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dismantling the negative
stereotypes and calling

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in a revival of ancient
ceremonial use of this plant.

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>> I think the real big
attraction of cannabis

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for a lot of people is that
esoteric element that it brings

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into your daily life of
you're starting to see

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the synchronicity and patterns
and all these elements.

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I've currently writing a book
about the role of cannabis

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in Medieval and Renaissance
magic and alchemy

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and things like that.

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And I notice a lot
of references are

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based around the use of cannabis
with magic mirrors, right.

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And the magic mirrors is kind
of a splitting of consciousness,

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you know what I mean?

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As soon as you look in the
mirror, you're schizophrenic.

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There's you in the mirror,
and there's you over here,

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you know.

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And I think that
the use of cannabis

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helps to break that veil
between the subconscious

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or the unconscious,
and the conscious mind,

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and that when you project your
consciousness into there, then

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you can kind of have
that division where

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you can reach down into
lower aspects, deeper

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aspects of your own psyche
that you can't normally

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reach in waking consciousness.

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And in the same way that
that happens in dreams.

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So, the one talking to you in
the mirror, the magic mirror,

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is the one telling you
your dream at night

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as well, which is your own
shadow or your subconscious

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or your unconscious.

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>> As cannabis has been
attributed to lifting the veil

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between the conscious
and subconscious mind,

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some believe that the concept
of utilizing time rather than

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being a passive and unwitting
victim of its cycles began with

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agriculture.

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And as Carl Sagan and
many others suggest,

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agriculture likely
started with cannabis.

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An example of this lies
in the equatorial region

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of west central Africa.

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>> In regards to
cannabis and time,

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one of the first things
novice users experience is

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a difference in time.

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A minute seemed like
an hour, or an hour

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seemed like a minute
type of thing.

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>> Cannabis was
used by the Pygmies,

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and the Pygmies themselves say
that God gave them cannabis

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to be healthy and happy,
and that they've been using

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cannabis since the dawn of
time, which likely means

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their conception of time.

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Another Congo tribe that used
cannabis is the Bachilangue.

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And when they began
using it, they

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burned all their
cultic fetishes.

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And they started
convincing other tribes

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to do this as well, and
they joined together

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in a brotherhood of cannabis
called the [INAUDIBLE]..

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So, yeah, fascinating role.

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It's not thought to have
come into central Africa

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until Medieval Muslim
traders brought it in.

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>> Not only was cannabis
likely involved in some

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tribes' conception of time,
but also medicine, philosophy,

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and even mystical experiences
with their tribal lineage.

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>> In China, cannabis appears in
the oldest known pharmacopeia,

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the Pen-tsao, put together
by Emperor Shen Nung,

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who recommends it for a variety
of medical conditions that is

496
00:25:26,630 --> 00:25:28,280
prescribed for today.

497
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,950
It was also used
by Taoist priests

498
00:25:30,950 --> 00:25:33,410
for astral traveling
type journeys

499
00:25:33,410 --> 00:25:36,230
to the Land of the Ancestors.

500
00:25:36,230 --> 00:25:39,710
There's a great quatrain
from about 2,500 years ago.

501
00:25:39,710 --> 00:25:44,240
It goes "First a yin then a
yang, no one knows what I do.

502
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,985
Jade buds and holy hemp for
the one that lives apart."

503
00:25:46,985 --> 00:25:49,400
And that's kind of like
life has its ups and downs,

504
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,460
but you know, with cannabis
I'm able to maintain

505
00:25:52,460 --> 00:25:55,200
that steady road.

506
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,650
>> As cannabis trade likely
occurred along the Silk Road,

507
00:25:58,650 --> 00:26:01,830
it inevitably made
its way into India.

508
00:26:01,830 --> 00:26:05,070
>> Cannabis has an
extensive history in India,

509
00:26:05,070 --> 00:26:08,120
and is still used in
religious rituals there.

510
00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:10,380
Shivaratri, dedicated
to the god Shiva,

511
00:26:10,380 --> 00:26:12,930
cannabis is commonly
consumed in temples.

512
00:26:12,930 --> 00:26:17,580
At the Festival of Colors,
where they throw paint and dyes,

513
00:26:17,580 --> 00:26:20,880
whole villages are drinking
Bhang, the traditional cannabis

514
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,230
drink from India.

515
00:26:22,230 --> 00:26:25,110
Cannabis is particularly wound
up with the cult of Shiva.

516
00:26:25,110 --> 00:26:29,010
She was the oldest continually
worshiped god on Earth--

517
00:26:29,010 --> 00:26:33,990
also the god who is said to
have brought yoga to humanity.

518
00:26:33,990 --> 00:26:36,960
And to this day, you could go
along the banks of the Ganges

519
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,390
and you will witness
sadhus and holy men

520
00:26:39,390 --> 00:26:42,960
partaking of a chillum full of
cannabis in honor of Lord Shiva

521
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,410
before setting down to
do their Yoga asanas.

522
00:26:46,410 --> 00:26:49,860
So cannabis and
yoga go way back.

523
00:26:49,860 --> 00:26:53,160
>> There's actually a resurgence
of cannabis and yoga today,

524
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,380
called ganja yoga.

525
00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:58,260
As many states in the US
rollback the prohibition

526
00:26:58,260 --> 00:27:01,110
on the versatile and
mind bending plant,

527
00:27:01,110 --> 00:27:04,080
the trend is currently
growing, but many places

528
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,960
are still on the fence
with cannabis, culturally

529
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,460
and religiously.

530
00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:10,710
>> Cannabis in Islam
is very interesting,

531
00:27:10,710 --> 00:27:15,180
because there's not any
sort of specific prohibition

532
00:27:15,180 --> 00:27:17,710
of cannabis in the Quran,
like there is with alcohol,

533
00:27:17,710 --> 00:27:20,050
so it's been a big
matter of debate.

534
00:27:20,050 --> 00:27:23,730
But it has been used
by mystics of Islam,

535
00:27:23,730 --> 00:27:28,770
such as Sufis and Dervishes
since the very beginnings.

536
00:27:28,770 --> 00:27:30,780
And generally they
use it-- a lot

537
00:27:30,780 --> 00:27:33,510
of times it'd be for
reciting poetry and playing

538
00:27:33,510 --> 00:27:35,820
music through the evening
and drinking coffee

539
00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:38,620
and using cannabis,
and at other times,

540
00:27:38,620 --> 00:27:42,690
in more powerful preparations,
to obliterate the ego

541
00:27:42,690 --> 00:27:45,660
and get down to the essence
that animates us all.

542
00:27:45,660 --> 00:27:48,190


543
00:27:48,190 --> 00:27:51,640
>> From Africa to Scythian
tribes commemorating cannabis

544
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:56,420
with a focus on agriculture
and time, to groups in China,

545
00:27:56,420 --> 00:28:00,340
India, and sects of Islam using
it for spiritual and mystical

546
00:28:00,340 --> 00:28:05,110
pursuits, why is this versatile
textile crop that can likely

547
00:28:05,110 --> 00:28:09,070
solve deforestation and many
medical ailments seen as such

548
00:28:09,070 --> 00:28:12,920
a devious drug to
modern society?

549
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,200
Currently, the
prohibition on cannabis

550
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,680
is slowly rolling itself
back, state by state,

551
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,780
even though the federal
government holds firm

552
00:28:20,780 --> 00:28:23,720
on its prohibitory position.

553
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,050
>> So, it's a wonderful thing
for me to see what's happened

554
00:28:27,050 --> 00:28:28,180
in Colorado.

555
00:28:28,180 --> 00:28:31,490
I do think Colorado is leading
the world in this area,

556
00:28:31,490 --> 00:28:33,800
in saying no, this is a
fundamental human right

557
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,194
of adults.

558
00:28:35,194 --> 00:28:37,610
Adults have a right to make
choices over their own bodies,

559
00:28:37,610 --> 00:28:41,480
they don't have to refer
to the government as to

560
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,780
whether they can do this or not.

561
00:28:43,780 --> 00:28:47,240
It's a very important step in
the re-liberation of mankind

562
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,560
that is taking place
in states like Colorado

563
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,560
and the other-- what,
seven or eight states that

564
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,350
have legalized cannabis
now and more than 23

565
00:28:54,350 --> 00:28:57,830
or 24 where at least cannabis is
available for medical purposes.

566
00:28:57,830 --> 00:29:01,910
This is winding back the war
on drugs, state by state.

567
00:29:01,910 --> 00:29:06,470
>> I am deeply inspired by
cannabis and it's important

568
00:29:06,470 --> 00:29:08,930
to think of cannabis as
not just one medicine,

569
00:29:08,930 --> 00:29:13,010
but many medicines that the
different plants and different

570
00:29:13,010 --> 00:29:17,820
strains have different functions
and capacities for healing.

571
00:29:17,820 --> 00:29:21,990
>> I believe that cannabis has
an amazing intelligent effect

572
00:29:21,990 --> 00:29:24,380
to it because of the
healing properties.

573
00:29:24,380 --> 00:29:27,260
When you think about
what cannabis does,

574
00:29:27,260 --> 00:29:30,140
we're wired for this
plant because we

575
00:29:30,140 --> 00:29:33,440
have the same type
of compounds that we

576
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,900
produce that are in the plant.

577
00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:39,070
And if we can use
this intelligence

578
00:29:39,070 --> 00:29:42,920
in this plant in
its natural form,

579
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:48,350
I believe that it's
incredibly healing.

580
00:29:48,350 --> 00:29:50,840
>> And since cannabis
is an adaptogenic herb,

581
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,560
bringing the body into balance,
perhaps its intelligence reads

582
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,400
and understands genetic and
biological information in order

583
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,580
to act as a medicine to any and
all that come into contact with

584
00:30:01,580 --> 00:30:03,360
it.

585
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,570
Perhaps this is why
cannabis has been revered

586
00:30:05,570 --> 00:30:10,200
for longer than any other plant,
side by side with humanity,

587
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,100
through the greatest leaps
in the evolution of the mind,

588
00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:15,590
technology, and culture.

589
00:30:15,590 --> 00:30:17,630
And some even believe
that this highly

590
00:30:17,630 --> 00:30:19,910
sought after herb
played a hand in the way

591
00:30:19,910 --> 00:30:23,060
that humans think
and behave today.

592
00:30:23,060 --> 00:30:25,400
Cannabis, like any
other plant medicine,

593
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,620
is a substance with
highly potent chemicals

594
00:30:27,620 --> 00:30:31,490
that rapidly alters body
chemistry and thought patterns.

595
00:30:31,490 --> 00:30:34,970
At present, cannabis trends
are changing so rapidly

596
00:30:34,970 --> 00:30:36,950
that only time will
tell how humanity

597
00:30:36,950 --> 00:30:39,950
will respond
psychologically, genetically,

598
00:30:39,950 --> 00:30:42,080
and even spiritually.

599
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,934
Anything with this power
must be respected and used

600
00:30:44,934 --> 00:30:46,100
with the wisdom it deserves.

601
00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:50,460


602
00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:54,630
Up next, join us as we explore
the darker aspects and shadow

603
00:30:54,630 --> 00:30:57,260
side of psychedelic use.

604
00:30:57,260 --> 00:31:07,394