In this Mocktails and Mushrooms Podcast episode, we speak with Blair Bliss shortly after her trip to Gabon Africa. Blair was initiated by the Bwiti Tribe in Iboga. Jimmy and Ashley talk to Blair her trip of a lifetime.

Here is a summary of the key points from the podcast transcript:

- The guest is Blair Bliss, who was recently initiated into the Bwiti tradition in Africa through the sacred medicine iboga.

- Iboga is a shrub found in Central West Africa. Ibogaine is the pharmaceutical version made from iboga.

- Blair first felt called to work with iboga after an ayahuasca experience told her she was meant to work with this medicine.

- Blair and her brother went to an iboga retreat in Costa Rica to help treat his crack addiction. The medicine brought them back to their "pre-addictive state."

- Blair later got the chance to be initiated into the Bwiti tribe in Gabon, Africa. She was part of the first group of Westerners to be initiated by this particular shaman and village.

- The initiation involved ceremonial dances, music, vomiting medicine, smoke purifications, ancestor honoring, psychedelic mirror work, and 48+ hours in ceremony consuming iboga.

- Iboga provides energy, stamina, truth, and healing. It "rewires" the brain and nervous system.

- Blair sees iboga as her medicine and feels called to start a Bwiti church in Colorado. She aims to spread access to this healing medicine.

Blair's transformative personal experience with iboga in Africa, traditional Bwiti practices, and the potential of this medicine as a treatment, while emphasizing the importance of responsible use and regulation.

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In this Mocktails and Mushrooms Podcast episode, we speak with Josh Hudelson, a military veteran and C.E.O of Club Karma Colorado. Jimmy and Ashley talk to Josh about the new online community that provides a place to discuss all things psilocybin openly.

https://clubkarmacolorado.com/

• Club Karma Colorado is a new online community created to openly discuss psilocybin and provide psychedelic education and advocacy.
• Founder Josh Hudelson aims to help those suffering from mental health issues find alternatives to pharmaceuticals through ancient fungi and natural medicines.
• The website offers a membership program with educational resources, community forums, and a free "awareness kit" of supplement samples.
• Josh wants to build a grassroots Colorado community to influence policy and loosen the pharmaceutical industry's grip on mental healthcare.
• He emphasizes natural psilocybin's spiritual benefits and low harm potential compared to addictive prescription drugs.
• Josh shares memorable psychedelic experiences from concerts and family farms to illustrate mind-expanding capabilities.
• Future plans may include in-person wellness centers combining holistic services like yoga, acupuncture, and float tanks alongside Club Karma's offerings.
• Challenges include influencing policymakers with facts to counter propaganda and misconceptions about psychedelics.
• The goal is increasing access to mushroom healing through community organizing and fighting special interests trying to suppress psychedelic therapies.

Overall, the episode provides an introduction to Club Karma Colorado's mission to advocate for psilocybin as a safe, natural alternative medicine through online and real-world community building.

In this episode of the Mocktails and Mushrooms Podcast, we discuss the upcoming Psychedelic Cup in Colorado, presented by the Psychedelic Club of Denver. Jimmy and Ashley speak with Jonathan Cherkoss, the event's lead organizer.

https://www.copsychedeliccup.com/

• The Psychedelic Club of Denver hosts the upcoming Psychedelic Cup on November 2 at Mile High Station in Denver, Colorado.
• The Psychedelic Cup will be a psilocybin mushroom growing competition where home growers can submit mushroom samples to be tested for potency and alkaloid content. There will be categories for highest psilocybin content, most average content, and others.
• Samples need at least 3 grams of whole fruits (cap and stem) and can be submitted to partner Altitude Consulting between August 14 and October 17. Each sample costs $40 to test in addition to an entry fee.
• In addition to the potency competition, there will be a mushroom beauty contest judging samples on appearance.
• The event on November 2 will be at Mile High Station and open to the public (21+ only). There will be speakers, music, food, and liquor, but no public consumption is allowed.
• The event's goals are to promote education and harm reduction around psilocybin mushrooms, bring the community together, and generate aggregate data on potencies that can be used for research.
• We also discuss confusion around some aspects of recent natural medicine laws in Colorado, confusion around the current public display regulations, Psychedelic Science 2023, and the need for evolution as a community as more expertise enters the policy space.