As you explore the promising world of psychedelic healing, the MAPS Canada Youtube channel and podcast is your resource for science-based information, learning, and invigorating conversation. Whether you're a researcher, a healthcare professional, or simply someone who wants to learn more about psychedelics, check out the MAPS Canada YouTube channel and podcast.

The MAPS Canada Podcast hosts a variety of guests from scientists on the cutting edge to popular figures sharing personal experiences, to policy makers discussing the present and future legal landscape of psychedelics. By bringing together such a broad range of voices, the MAPS Canada podcast provides listeners with a multi-dimensional view of the psychedelic movement in Canada and around the world. 

The MAPS Canada podcast is a video podcast, but it’s also available in audio-only format on all streaming platforms. Whether you are a long-time enthusiast or new to the world of psychedelics, the MAPS Canada podcast has something to offer for everyone. So don’t miss out! Subscribe to the YouTube channel today!

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MAPS Canada Presents:

Wisdom From The Psychedelic Underground

Podcast with Rachel Harris

Rachel Harris, PhD, is the author of “Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground” and “Listening to Ayahuasca.” A psychologist who has been in private practice for 40 years, she spent 10 years in an academic research department where she published more than 40 scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals and received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator’s Award. Rachel splits her time between an island in Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area

Visit her online at http://www.swimminginthesacred.com

And consider donating to MAPS Canada at https://mapscanada.org/donate/

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MAPS Canada Presents:

You Had a Mystical Experience - Now What?​

Podcast with Michael Phillip

Michael Phillip is the creator and host of Third Eye Drops, a media vessel dedicated to philosophy, psychology, spirituality, meaning, and adventure (both physical and mental). Michael is a writer, podcast host, speaker, community-builder, and wonder junkie holding a B.A. in Journalism.

Check it out at https://thirdeyedrops.com/

And consider donating to MAPS Canada at https://mapscanada.org/donate/

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MAPS Canada Presents:

A Christian Minister Took Psychedelics, This Happened

Podcast with Don Lattin

Don Lattin is a veteran religion journalist and award-winning author of several books on psychedelics including The Harvard Psychedelic Club and his latest book God on Psychedelics.

He was a speaker at Psychedelic Science 2023, the world biggest ever conference on psychedelics, and he has been closely following the movement from it’s beginnings.

In this podcast, hear Don Lattin’s perspective on the rise of psychedelic churches, the NYU-John Hopkins study on religious clergy members experience after two psilocybin sessions

Find more about Don Lattin here: www.donlattin.com

More information on Don Lattin’s latest book God on Psychedelics: https://apocryphilepress.com/book/psychedelics/

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MAPS Canada Presents:

The Soap Maker Quietly Leading the Psychedelic Revolution

Podcast with David Bronner

David Bronner is the CEO (Cosmic Engagement Officer) of Dr. Bronners as well as a board member of MAPS and a long-time activist and leader in the psychedelic, hemp and organic-fair trade movements.

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MAPS Canada Presents:

Why You May Soon Have a Local MDMA Clinic

Podcast with Rick Doblin

Listen to this interview with Rick Doblin on new results from the MAPS Phase III clinical trials for MDMA assisted therapy, the upcoming biggest psychedelic conference in the world ever—Psychedelic Science 2023—and stories of getting banned from the U.S for life.

Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) founded in 1986.

MAPS is a nonprofit organization that provides public education, research and policy reform towards the legal, responsible and evidence–based use of psychedelics.

Rick has dedicated 50 years of his life towards this mission and MAPS now leads the way towards creating legal context for the beneficial uses of psychedelics on an international scale.

We are MAPS Canada, a sister organization to the U.S. based MAPS.

MAPS needs MDMA therapists! Learn more about becoming an MDMA therapist here: https://mapsbcorp.com/training/

Check out the biggest psychedelic conference ever, Psychedelic Science 2023: https://psychedelicscience.org/

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MAPS Canada Presents:

Can Psychedelic Help Solve The Climate Crisis?

Podcast with Dr. Dennis McKenna

In this episode Dennis McKenna joins MAPS Canada in discussing Ayahuasca tourism, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy, Biognosis, the future of the psychedelic movement and the counter-force to the movement—the “war on consciousness”.

Dennis McKenna has conducted research in ethnopharmacology for over 40 years. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute and was a key investigator on the Hoasca Project, the first biomedical investigation of ayahuasca. He was part of the original Scientific Strategy Team at Shaman Pharmaceuticals in the early 90s. He is the younger brother of Terence McKenna.

From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on Ethnopharmacology and Plants in Human affairs as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. In the spring of 2019, in collaboration with colleagues in Canada and the US, he incorporated a new non-profit, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy. In collaboration with colleagues he organized two landmark conferences in 2017 and 2022, the Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (see ESPD50.com and ESPD55.com) He emigrated to Canada in the spring of 2019 together with his wife Sheila, and now resides in Abbotsford B.C.

Learn more about the McKenna Academy, Biognosis and how you can support, here: https://mckenna.academy/

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MAPS Canada Presents:

The Researcher Bringing MDMA Therapy to Ukrainians

Podcast with Dr. Olga Chernoloz

🇺🇦 Meet the researcher conducting research to bring MDMA assisted therapy to Ukrainian refugees abroad and ultimately, to the countless victims of the Ukraine War.

In this MAPS Canada Podcast episode, Luc Briedé-Cooper and Sabrina Ramkellawan sit down with Dr. Olga Chernoloz a Ukrainian researcher based in Canada.

Become part of the psychedelic movement by donating at: https://mapscanada.org/donate/

Dr. Chernoloz has extensive experience in research of psychoactive compounds for mental health and
neurological applications.

She is a scientific advisor to Psychedelics Studies Research Group at University of Toronto and has held a number of roles in clinical trial management, drug development, biotech, and pharmaceutics.

From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on Ethnopharmacology and Plants in Human affairs as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. In the spring of 2019, in collaboration with colleagues in Canada and the US, he incorporated a new non-profit, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy. In collaboration with colleagues he organized two landmark conferences in 2017 and 2022, the Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (see ESPD50.com and ESPD55.com) He emigrated to Canada in the spring of 2019 together with his wife Sheila, and now resides in Abbotsford B.C.

Learn more about the McKenna Academy, Biognosis and how you can support, here: https://mckenna.academy/

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