Paul Stamets is a mycologist and advocate for mushrooms for helping the overall health of people and planet. His new book, "Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats: A Guide to the History, Identification, and Use of Psychoactive Fungi," is available now.
Three percent of Americans tripped on psilocybin in 2023.
Psilocybin should be made free as a citizen's right to have access.
98% of people are good and 2% of people are assholes.
Psilocybin makes nicer people.
Mushrooms were known as the flesh of the gods in both Mesoamerica and Egypt.
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we up yeah put them headphones on it's rock and roll Paul good to see you sir good to see you Joe
what's happening how you doing book number eight huh book number eight yeah who would have known
there's so many books to be written on mushrooms well this is state-of-the-art taxonomy so it's
how mushrooms are natural habitat cover 60 species all over the world but it also shows not only
historical use which people are surprised have been used in India and Europe and South Africa a
new species was just gone so lost to be Maluti but the Basuthu and the Suthu and province have been
using and obviously hundreds of years we know this because they have songs so it's really interesting
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