Dear Skraps Friends, We, Arun and JoJo, have had taken on a huge project in PsychedeRx, a ten episode series about psychedelics – their history, their abuse, their potential, and their future. We’re halfway through the...
We’ve spent some time already on the definition of psychedelics - and we’ll spend more time before this series is over. But, Skraps is a podcast whose roots are run deep in the sciences, we couldn’t ignore the topic of the basic pharmacology of psychedelics. This episode is a primer for citizen scientists and holds some intriguing information for the bonafide scientists among us.
Fear. Fear causes people to do amazing and improbable things. Fear of an enemy, fear of an unknown. They are powerful motivators and ones that Syndey Gottlieb embraced with every fibre of his professional being. The same man whose family would have been Nazi victims engaged in some of the most insidious “experiments” known to man - experiments based on the knowledge and tutelage of the same Nazi scientists who deployed the gasses that would have killed his own family.
We move psychedelic history to characters like Albert Hoffman, Humphry Osmond, Abram Hoffer, Duncan Blewett, Sandoz, and even Arun’s Grandmother.
In episode two of PsychedeRx, Peyote comes north to the good old US of A. And it’s not just for religious ceremonies anymore, either. Spanish conquistadors and European explorers, seeking to dominate the indigenous tribes, used Peyote to show force by banning its use and denying the tribes their spiritual practices. And we all know what happens when prohibitions are imposed - the use doesn’t stop, it just gets moved underground.
We explore the use, misuse, and history of psychedelics. In this episode, we will cover the most important question of what these substances are.
#PsychedeRx Trailer
First glimpse of the podcast series and what’s to come. PsychedeRx is a SKRAPS original podcast exploring the therapeutic use of Psychedelics. An enthralling story of an improbable drug class, as old as humankind itself,...
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