Jim Gordon: In your opinion, putting you on the spot here, but I’m hearing such wonderful news. Is Ibogaine the potential solution that you see?
Ian Campbell: Indigenous people have utilized plant medicines for millennia. And we continue to do so. In my own personal life, I’ve used many plants grown up in the community, listening to my elders, my grandparents. And when I heard about Ibogaine, a plant medicine, ...
I felt that I had nothing to lose at that point. But when my treatment was a complete success, I knew we had to pay this forward to other combat veterans.
… of plants and fungi that contain ibogaine, dimethyltryptamine, mescaline, psilocybin, … known as magic mushrooms or shrooms—peyote, and iboga.
… to the lay person, magic mushrooms and psychedelic plants like cacti, iboga and ayahuasca—the Metropolitan Police Department's lowest priority.
The District of Columbia will likely become the nation’s second jurisdiction to include a psychedelics decriminalization measure in November.
Oregon made a similar announcement last week, and will include psilocybin decriminalization on its ballot. In the case of DC, the ballot will also include ayahuasca and ibogaine, among others.
According to Decriminalize Nature DC, the activist organization behind the proposal, Initiative ...