In this episode, we jump into new territory--altered states, if you will. We are pleased to welcome Connor Storck onto the show to discuss his work with psychedelic law in the United States.

Connor is currently a law student at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law where he hopes to complete his J.D. and sit for the bar in 2024. He is also the current Director of Operations for the Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network (website can be found here: https://www.intercollegiatepsychedelics.net).

Connor and Brandon were in the same cohort at Rice University where they both received their respective MA degrees in 2019. Connor's perspectives on psychedelics and the prominence of altered states of consciousness within religious communities proved to be transformative for Brandon--so much so, that it blew open his brain to the possibility of Mormonism being founded on such substance use (more on that in the future--stay tuned).

In this episode, Connor and Brandon start out by reminiscing about their days at Rice (where Christian feels left out for missing all the fun). They then jump into the tumultuous, Sisyphus-like battle over the legality of psychedelics and trying to close the Pandora's box opened by Richard Nixon's and Ronald Reagan's respective "war on drugs." Psychedelics, and altered states of consciousness more broadly, are foundational to the history of humanity --past, present, and future--and the creation of culture and mythology itself. It is simply unavoidable and has even proven to be deeply valuable in therapeutic settings. While the legal future of psychedelics is perhaps a few decades from becoming more normalized, there is hope!