Episode 38: Decriminalizing Nature with Nicole Foerster

We’re baaaack! Again! Thank you, dear listeners, for being understanding about our (sometimes variable) apocalypse release schedule. We are rewarding your patience with a fantastic episode featuring Nicole Foerster, an advocate for psilocybin mushrooms as a treatment for cluster headaches, a mental health professional, and a proponent for the full decriminalization of entheogenic plants and fungi. In this episode, we talk about their work as director of Decriminalize Nature Colorado which recently submitted a ballot proposal to decriminalize entheogens in the 2022 Colorado statewide election, why decriminalization offers a more intentional and just model for psychedelic access, and the emerging models for holistically supporting mental health. Afterward, Joy and Sarah wander through strange metaphors as they reflect on these strangely psychedelic times in the Society of the Spectacle. 

GET INVOLVED

Decriminalize Nature Colorado
https://www.facebook.com/decrimnaturecolorado/

Insta: @decrimnaturecolorado
https://www.instagram.com/decrimnaturecolorado/?hl=en

Decriminalize Nature (national)
https://decriminalizenature.org/

FEATURED MUSIC

“All the Same” by FaceKiss
https://facekiss.bandcamp.com/

“Hey Moon” and “Peter Pan” by Ray Diess
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2k9ZPxMCH5vm2E7KHBwmfD
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ray-diess/1553592537

RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES

Your Healing is Killing Me
https://bookshop.org/books/your-healing-is-killing-me/9780991418398


Our Right to Drugs
https://bookshop.org/books/our-right-to-drugs-the-case-for-a-free-market/9780815603337

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
https://bookshop.org/books/the-book-of-woe-the-dsm-and-the-unmaking-of-psychiatry-9798200063345/9798200063345

Psychiatric Survivors
https://www.psychiatricsurvivors.net/

Mad in America
https://www.madinamerica.com/

Students for Sensible Drug Policy
https://ssdp.org/

SPORE: Society for Psychedelic Outreach, Reform, and Education
https://www.thespore.org/

Unlimited Sciences
unlimitedsciences.org/

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