This week, we are featuring episodes of Altered States, a podcast exploring what science can tell us about psychedelics—and what psychedelics can tell us about ourselves. It’s produced by the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and PRX.
This episode is the show's premiere from the summer of 2024. Host Arielle Duhaime-Ross spends a day with a licensed psilocybin facilitator and a client at a legal Psilocybin clinic in Portland, Oregon. It’s all part of what’s been called The Oregon Experiment.
In 2020, voters in Oregon passed a ballot measure that allows people to take magic mushrooms, or psilocybin, with a guide. But what does that actually look like — or sound like?
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