Psychedelics: For Getting Help or Getting High? | Dr. Andrew Weil

Andrew Weil (0:00)

Okay, our world is in pretty desperate shape.

You know, you don't have to, in any direction you look, things are really bad out there, and they've gotten very significantly worse in recent years. I don't know any way to turn things around, except through a global change in consciousness. And when I look out there, the only thing that I see that has the power, potentially to do that is psychedelics.

Michael Gervais (0:35)

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Okay, this week's conversation is with Dr. Andrew Weil, a world renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. He is a New York Times bestseller author of 15 books.

He's the founder and the director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. And he has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.

And that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of Andrew's accomplishments and contributions to society throughout his incredible career. And to put it simply, this human is an absolute legend as a man and as an harbinger in his field. We had Andrew on the podcast back in 2020 So that's episode 250, if you're wanting to go check that out as well. And I was so excited to have him back on for round two because this time we dive into psychedelics, a topic that Andrew has been studying since his time at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s.