FDB on DMT: Psych-Out with Rick Strassman, M.D.

Five Dollar Buzz

Welcome to Season 2 of FIVE DOLLAR BUZZ. For the first time ever and from here on out we will be providing both an audio only version on Apple and Spotify as well as a video recording on our new FIVE DOLLAR BUZZ YouTube Channel! And boy do we start out with a doozy. On this episode the Buzzards talk with renowned professor, researcher and author Rick Strassman, M.D. He is the clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He also held a fellowship in clinical pharmacology research at UC San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. Strassman was the first person to do human research with the psychedelic DMT. And through that research he authored the famed non-fiction book DMT: The Spirit Molecule which was subsequently turned into a documentary with the same name featuring Joe Rogan as the narrator (whose podcast he has also been on). He has also written two other novels, the non-fiction book DMT and the Soul of Prophecy - in which he compares Hebrew prophecy with DMT experiences - and the fictional novel Joseph Levy Escapes Death. On this episode we have the great doctor explain all things DMT and other psychedelics such as LSD and ketamine, you know, the good stuff. We also learn more about Dr. Strassman himself, too, which gives us insight into how he approached his research in the first place. To say the least, we at FDB were all too eager to be schooled in this class, hell, we sat right up front willingly and raised our hands even when we weren't called upon. The best students he ever had. So get your changa and your pipe, take a hit, wait ten seconds, exhale, repeat two more times, kick back and focus your attention on our voices as we take you past the light show, past the beings trying to take you to your death, go through the tunnel and find us on the other side in this episode of FIVE DOLLAR BUZZ. We gonna get psycho-fuckin'-delic, baby! Please remember to hit subscribe on YouTube so that you can be updated on each new episode or, if you want to still listen to us on your long drives to the tollhouse of pain, remember to like us and subscribe on Apple and Spotify. For any comments, questions, ideas or potential subjects and guests, please reach out and email us at [e-mail]. Just wait at least fifteen to twenty minutes as we come back from our, ahem, "trip."