2017-03-20
58 分钟You know, some people send their kids out.
They're like, drive safe, honey.
As my kids leave the house, my teenagers, I shout after them, use a condom and test your molly.
Because these drugs are criminalized.
There is no body testing it and verifying purity.
So imagine being in such an unrelenting state of depression that the only thing that was stopping you from ending at all was the thought of leaving your children motherless.
Well, that's where today's guest is found herself.
She tried pretty much everything through years and years and years, nearly every kind of medication, every kind of therapy.
And she reached a point in her life where what was working for a long time stopped, and she just didn't know where to turn.
Until one night she had a major wake up call, and she decided to try something that she never in her wildest imagination would have thought that she'd be open to trying, and that is psychedelics.
That journey that unfolded from that point forward became the subject of a book called a really good day.
And it documents in fierce and funny, at times detail, her 30 day microdosing experience with LSD.
We go a lot of places in this conversation, from the nature of these types of medicines and chemicals to the history of it, to the politics of it, the legality of it, and also, on a really personal level, what it did to and for her and what she was thinking about as she was doing this and how it affected her relationships with her family and with other people.
It's a real episode.
It's a real conversation.
It's raw, it's unfiltered, as always here.
And she has some really strong opinions that really made me hit pause and think, what would I do if I hit that point where everything I had tried wasn't working anymore?
And the only hope that I saw was something that was very illegal?
What would I do?
Interesting conversation.