Dr. Roland R. Griffiths is a clinical pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Griffiths has been researching mood-altering compounds for over 40 years, has published over 360 times, and started the psilocybin research program at Johns Hopkins nearly 2 decades ago.
Chapters from this 1 hour 15 minute conversation:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:05 – Psilocybin’s mind-altering abilities
00:10:52 – Anxiety and depression
00:13:00 – Historical psilocybin research
00:14:32 – Anxiety & depression
00:20:52 – Neurogenesis & PTSD
00:23:08 – Ketamine
00:26:33 – Psilocybin’s mechanism of action
00:32:12 – “The hard problem of consciousness”
00:38:15 – Smoking cessation
00:45:08 – Risks and Safety
00:51:45 – Dosage
01:00:00 – Meditation
01:05:18 – Heat therapy & mood
01:08:23 – Salvinorin A, ayahuasca and peyote
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