Psychedelic Timeshare

Phil is a former jailer and police officer in Texas for 13 years who found natural healing through yoga, cannabis and other earth medicines. We cover PTSD, suicide, childhood trauma, the War on Drugs, asset forfeiture, police reform and funding, and what needs to change in Texas and nationally going forward to reclaim our country.

Dave is a veteran cannabis advocate and previous dispensary owner in California. We dive deep in to the story of how his church was raided, Prop 215, Prop 64, Measure Z, asset forfeiture, the War on Drugs, the Portugal experiment, medicine churches, decriminalization, federal descheduling and rescheduing and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). We go all the way down the rabbit hole and come back out with fresh tails and perspectives and how to dig our way out of the drug war we are waging against our own selves.

Dave and Jason are combat veterans and twenty plus year career soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively and then after retiring received medical disability for their service. They are both advocates and activists in Texas for natural healing with cannabis and other psychedelic medicines. Dave and Jason share their personal healing journeys, insights and visions in to the decriminalization, medicalization and legalization of cannabis and entheogens in Texas and nationally.

Sam is a combat veteran who served two tours of duty as a marine in Afghanistan in the Helmand province, the center of worldwide opium production. He went to Peru for an ayahuasca dieta and Mexico for other medicines. Sam talks about his personal healing journey and how he would like to see the medicines available and integrated in to society. He offers a vision for veteran healing using the National Park System.

Ryan is a combat veteran who served as a marine in Iraq and sustained injuries resulting in a purple heart. He was a key advocate who got PTSD added as a qualification to the medical cannabis program in Maine in 2013. Ryan was part of the group of veterans that protested the VA's policy on medical cannabis which was featured in the episode Stoned Vets on Weediquette on Viceland in 2016. Ryan went to Mexico in December for bufo and dmt working with other veterans. He returned this January from a 21 day dieta in Peru working with ayahuasca and mapacho (peruvian tobacco). https://www.facebook.com/ryan.begin80

Carol Gilson and Jordon Stanford join us to share what is like to give thousands of people ketamine treatments along with therapeutic support. We talk about the future of ketamine and psychedelics in America and how we can integrate them in to society. They share some of their own personal journeys and what the psychedelic retreat center of the future could look like.

Bryan shares his experiences serving in the military as a Forward Observer and Blackhawk Helicopter Crew Chief in Iraq. He tells his story of returning from combat with PTSD and using alcohol, opiates and pharmaceuticals to treat himself and finding a higher and deeper path with natural plant medicines (cannabis, mushrooms, dmt and 5-meo-dmt). Bryan shares his experiences with cannabis and psychedelics and tells us how we can move forward to deliver full medical and spiritual freedom in Texas and the US.

Ten months of quarantine from our inaugural podcast and we are back live with Episode 1 of the Psychedelic Timeshare - The Deep State Strikes Back. We discuss covid, the drug war, big tech, universal basic income, censorship, the Buffalo Shaman and more.

The inaugural episode (0.1) of the Psychedelic Timeshare Podcast brought to you by the people of Mark Couillard and Ian Benouis broadcasting from Austin, TX. We discuss Kanye West, corona health protocols, Donald Trump, social distancing, shopping partners, microbiomes, shilajit, Alex Jones Austin Mexican Freetail Bat colony conspiracy and we have our first super surprise guest. Hint- his name rhymes with My Sharona. Peace and love, Mark and Ian