In this episode we introduce you to the science, taboo and business of psychedelics. Tara Austin, consulting partner at the Ogilvy Behavioural Science Practice, wants to run as a UK conservative party candidate on a psychedelics platform. Josh is in the top 100 psychedelics influencers and founder of Psilocybin Alpha. We first came across Tara when she rescued David Nutt's psychedelics presentation at Nudgestock after his internet cut out:
In turn, she introduced us to Josh after we expressed an interest in the business of psychedelics. Josh was involved in this recent piece on psychedelics research in Yahoo News.
It was a terrific discussion covering a couple of significant psychedelics stocks, Atai Life Sciences and Compass Pathways. Importantly, Josh also emphasised the long term commitment of not for profits such as Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Usona Institute in combating the taboo created by the Nixon administration.
In addition to her political plans, Tara is currently involved in the Psilocybin Access Rights campaign (visit par.global or https://www.cdprg.co.uk/psilocybin). This has the goal of changing the classification of this drug so people are not criminalised for possessing it, and so it can be used as medicine. Visit the website to see how to contribute.
After dispatching the psychedelics taboo, we ended with the next taboos Josh and Tara are turning their attention to. Quite inspirational guests, and we are proud to have had the chance to bring them to you. Thanks again Tara and Josh.
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We solve the mathematical problem of causing an enormous increase in one's bank account balance through human effort. The podcast therefore has two themes, mathematics and human behaviour. Together, behavioural investing. We take a first principles approach by summarising scientific studies and interviewing psychology and mathematics researchers. This will show us the first principles. We will then reason from these first principles to the best strategy to cause optimal human investing behaviour.
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S3 E6 🍄 The Science, Taboo and Business of Psychedelics