Danny Motyka’s keys to psychedelics access are educated chemistry and mission-driven business. As a teenager tackling severe depression with psilocybin and LSD, Danny found his calling in psychedelics and is now CEO of PsyGen Labs, a Canada-based manufacturer of pharmaceutical-grade psychedelics for clinical research and therapeutic use. In our conversation, we discuss changing the nature of business with psychedelics, understanding our drug biases, and moving ourselves beyond our default modes.
Resources
• How Psygen came to be
• Erowid and a New Yorker feature on its founders
• Default Mode Network: our brain's guessing machine
• The Coddling of the American Mind
• SNL’s “Stop gaslighting me!” skit
• Social media and dopamine addiction
• Blockchain + Psychedelics at Scale
• Silk Road, crypto currencies, and illegal substance sales
Music: Sochii by Adrian Thomas (2020)
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