Dean Wright is a Neuroscientist, Therapist and one of the founding members of the Australian Psychedelic Society which advocates for the medicinal and therapeutic usage of psychedelic drugs.
"We as a society could progress so much if we listened to the fringe a little bit more".
In this episode of the podcast, Dean discusses some of the research surrounding psychedelics, showing that these drugs could be safer and far more effective than current mental health treatments. Not only that, we discuss some of the bumpy history of psychedelic medication and why the war on drugs might have created some unfounded misconceptions.
Finally, Konner and Dean touched on what addiction is, how drugs should be viewed legally and reflected on the fact that mental health treatment could be very different today if research on psychedelics had not have been halted a few decades ago.