Podcasts about enpsychedelia

Support Don't PunishIs a global campaign, focused on prioritising public health and human rights in our drug policies, rather than punishment and coercion. Enpsychedelia has supported #SupportDontPunish​ since our first broadcasts in 2015 on Melbourne's 3CR 855AM.SSDP AustraliaThis year, the Students for Sensible Drug Policy Australia crew held a webinar 'Uncovering the Australian War on Drugs' with guest speakers:Dr. Mary Harrod Dr. Peta MalinsTara Schultz

Nicotine and vaping in AustraliaWhere's the smoke?Documentary maker and author John Safran has turned his attention to vaping in Australia. He's currently research a book into the state of vaping and joins us on Enpsychedelia to share some of his research so far, and to hear updates from experts and community members.GUESTSDr. Colin Mendelsohn - Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction AssociationColin is a Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was a general practitioner for 27 years and now works as a Tobacco Treatment Specialist helping smokers to quit. He has a special interest in the use of less harmful alternatives to smoked tobacco for smokers who are unable to quit (tobacco harm reduction).He is a member of the Expert Advisory Group that develops the Australian national smoking cessation guidelines and is past Vice President of the Australian Association of Smoking Cessation Professionals, Australia’s peak body for experts in the field of smoking cessation.Colin is actively involved in teaching health professionals and research in smoking cessation and has published widely in the field.For more information, visit his website at www.colinmendelsohn.com.auBrian Marlow - Legalise Vaping AustraliaBrian Marlow is Legalise Vaping Australia’s Campaign Director.Legalise Vaping Australia was formed in 2017 as a joint initiative of MyChoice Australia and the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance, as a unique grassroots advocacy and activist organisation. Legalise Vaping Australia is dedicated to campaigning for the legalisation and risk proportionate regulation of vaping and e-cigarettes across Australia.While we all know the best way to eliminate harm caused by smoking is to quit smoking completely, for those who are unable to quit, moving to smoke-free products provides an opportunity for better health and an improved life.E-cigarettes and vapes are endorsed by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom and Public Health England as being a better alternative to smoking and more effective for smoking cessation than nicotine-replacement therapy. Legalise Vaping Australia and its community of supporters are working to legalise vaping in Australia, ensuring Australian smokers have access to these less-harmful devices.The Legalise Vaping Australia campaign is funded by supporters via donations and sales of campaign merchandise. We have not and we will not accept funds from the tobacco industry.Along with the help of experts and leading researchers, the Legalise Vaping Australia team is engaged with key politicians across Australia and across the political spectrum to find the right regulatory balance that ensures these products are available to all Australian smokers who are trying to quit. 

Nick and Ash are joined in the studio by Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) Australia's Greg Denham on the final episode of Enpsychedelia for 2019. Greg provides valuable insight into the mindset of policing as we discuss issues related to festival policing, the politics of policing and how the drug law reform discussion is affected by policing politics in Victoria._Lobe_ SubterrestrialWe play an excerpt of this clip of Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent speaking to Sky News.There was a recent festival safety forum, with stakeholders ranging from across the festival industry in Victoria organised by Victoria police. This is an excerpt from VicPol's media release on this forumPolice will today join health, emergency services and music festival industry experts and leaders at a forum in Melbourne that is putting safety at music festivals at the forefront. Hundreds of thousands will attend music festivals across Victoria this summer, and the Music Festival Industry Forum is key to preparing for the vibrant season. The Music Festival Industry Forum, organised by Victoria Police, will be hosted by Professor John Fitzgerald and will include guest speakers, interactive workshops and discussion from a range of stakeholders.We play an excerpt from Drug Policy Australia's event at the Melbourne Town Hall:Is it Time to Legalise or Decriminalise Drugs? Panel discussion and book launch of Pills Powder and Smoke by Antony Loewenstein at the Melbourne Town Hall 9th September 2019Mista Savona - Carnival (Opiuo Remix)Know Your Stuff NZWendy Allison joins the program to talk pill testing in New Zealand. KnowYourStuffNZ is a community organisation of volunteers operating in collaboration with the New Zealand Drug Foundation to provide drug related harm reduction services at events around New Zealand, including drug checking.  The service is free of charge to clients. 

Recorded live at Nimbin Town Hall Saturday 4th May for the 2019 Mardi Grass HemposiumDrug Testing Driver Saliva: Safer Roads or Bigger Brother?Panel Discussion: Roadside saliva drug testing is an increasingly commonplace strategy used by police to apparently address road safety issues. However, there is very little research concerning the effectiveness is a zero tolerance policy of traces of cannabis in saliva and reducing harm on the roads. After many years of rigorous research, an agreed limit of allowable alcohol and safe driving was agreed upon. Why can’t the same be done for cannabis? What’s happening in Australia, and around the world?NSW’s controversial Roadside Drug Testing scheme has come under increased scrutiny. The RDT program was first rolled out in Victoria in the early 2000’s, with tests for cannabis and methamphetamine, and a promise of increased road safety. The scheme continues to be promoted as a road-safety initiative similar to breath-testing for alcohol. Each year it costs tens of millions of dollars and leads to thousands of lost licenses. All of this would seem justifiable if each driver removed posed an increased risk on the roads. The problem is that the Securetec Drugswipe devices used by police across Australia do not distinguish between impairment and detection. And research shows that being able to detect whether or not someone uses cannabis has nothing to do with whether or not someone is currently impaired by cannabis.3CR’s Enpsychedelia explores issues at the intersection between drugs and society. Nick Wallis from Enpsychedelia will be hosting a panel exploring this issue of incomplete science leading to expensive policy, sold on a shaky road-safety rationale.Facilitator: Nick WallisSpeakers: Steve Bolt [Solicitor]Adela Falk [Pow420]Andrew Katelaris [Medical Cannabis Advocate]Andrew Kavasilas [HEMP Party]Sally McPherson [Solicitor] Fiona Patten [Reason MLC Victoria]

EGA Garden States is on Sunday May 12th and Enpsychedelia will be broadcasting live from the event, with 'The Thin Green Line', taking a look at Australia's drug law history and how it has affected plants and fungi.Rainbow Serpent Festival 2019 Lifestyle VillageThe Australian Psychedelic Society Presents: Counter-Culture Meets Mainstream AustraliaWith:Dr. Martin Williams - PRISM (Psychedelic Research In Science and Medicine) Melissa Warner - Mind Medicine Australia

Chloe Span hosts Enpsychedelia, talking about the upcoming International Family Drug Support Day and hosting guests:Tara SchultzSofia Devetak (SSDP NSW)Penny Hill (SSDP Australia Co-founder)

Part 2 of the Rainbow Serpent Festival 2018 panel - Drugs in Australia: Going Round the Twist with:Nick Kent, President of Students for Sensible Drug Policy Melbourne University chapterMartin Williams, President of Psychedelic Research In Science and Medicine (PRISM)Ash Blackwell, Co-Host of Enpsychedelia and co-founder of SSDP AustraliaFiona Measham, The Loop

Nick and Ash discussed the week in news, before quickly seguing into a segment about the launch of the University of Melbourne's Student Union and Students for Sensible Drug Policy Australia new Safer Partying Initiative.Nick and Ash also launched the Enpsychedelia fundraiser. Donate here.

SSDP Australia's Chloe Span helps produce an Enpsychedelia special, looking at the way drug use is framed differently, especially for young women.Dr. Kat Daley helps to facilitate a discussion with Jane and Sarah.Kat's book Youth and Substance Abuse is out now.

Wednesday Breakfast 13th of DecemberPresenters, Nick Wallis and Patty Beggs.Early childhood: Dr Avis Ridgway speaks about the pleather of ways cultures and the importance of instilling a pedagogy of play. ICAN and Can do attitude wins a Nobel Peace prize: A number of Australians who were instrumental in setting up ICAN…travelled to Oslo for the ceremony. Other ICAN members and supporters watched it at Melbourne Town Hall and Gem Rumold was one of them. Gem is the Outreach Coordinator for ICAN Australia spoke with Judith.News Of the Day: Blockchain???: Dr Jason Potts imagines this new technology to have the ability to revolutionise the value system to which ew work from. Conversation "Bitcoin may be reaching new heights, but the ASX shows the blockchain is reinventing business". Live broadcast: Nick Wallis takes us through the Ethnogenesis symposium 2017 retrospectively while offering a small recap of the Enpsychedelia live broadcast that took place amongst many other talks and discussion. 

The Enpsychedelia team present a Radiothon special, with guests and lots of talking points about the past year in drug law and policy discussions. 

Nick and Ash discuss the week in drug news.MUSICClancye Milne - The River Song with Paper FlowersSEGMENTAsh and Nick discuss part one of an anonymous underground pill testing blog, published at the Enpsychedelia website.I’ve found the festival scene in Australia to be one of the most life enhancing and positive communities in my life. In the dancing, the conversation, the play, the music and of most of all in the community, love and connection. I’ve found inspiration to live authentically and embrace my true self. In this crazy world of beautiful freaks I’ve found the support and compassion to grow and express myself fully. In the intimate space created in this abstract and alternative world, I’ve worked through difficult times and supported others through their journeys.  Sometimes I go for the introspection, sometimes for the knowledge or the intimacy. Other times I just like to get loose and party with my crew. Drugs are sometimes part of enhancing this experience, whether it’s through deepening a sense of intimacy or just shaking some ass. READ MORE...MUSICKaya Project - One Hundred Lights (Grouch in Dub remix)SEGMENTComedians Dominique and Miles join the program to talk about their comedy shows as part of 59 Free Comedy for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

SEGMENTMiss Guidance from the Nimbin HEMP Embassy joins the program to talk about her recent trip along with HEMP Embassy president Michael Balderstone to the United States and Canada, to see how their medical and recreational cannabis markets are operating.SEGMENTComedian Anthony Jeannot joins the program to talk about his show for Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2017 'Just Like Buddha'. We also gave away five double passes to Anthony's show. You can read a review written by Chris Mac from SSDP Australia and see some clips from the show at the Enpsychedelia website.MUSICStaunch - Alpha Mode [Feat. Kash]SEGMENTMelbourne University SSDP chapter president Nick Kent recently returned from a whirlwind trip to the US for the SSDP International Conference. SSDP Australia President Penny Hill also chats with us about what the organisation is up to internationally. 

Alternative News.Nick Wallis of 3CR’s Enpsychedelia presents a vignette on the Victorian Government accepting submissions to a wide-ranging inquiry into drug law in the state.  Dean speaks with Stephanie Cousins, Advocacy and External Affairs Manager at Amnesty International Australia, about how Amnesty International has welcomed the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights’ decision not to water down the Racial Discrimination Act (section 18C).Matt Kunkel of 3CR’s Stick Together presents a quick fire news segment of trade union news and stories.Dean speaks with Sophie Verass, Content Editor and concept creator photo series -‘Muslim, Aboriginal and outspoken’, about the 2011 National Census’ report, SBS’ campaign #FU2RACISM.

Nick and Ash discuss the past couple of weeks in news, especially focusing on recent incidents such as the mutliple reported hospitalisations following Electric Parade at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, reported to be related to GHB, GBL or 1-4B.INTERVIEWMeriana Dinkova is a licensed marriage and family therapist from California who also works with people on navigating altered spaces. Meriana chats with Nick about common problems people run into and the tendency for 'virusware' to infect our thought patterns and lead us astray. VICTORIAN INQUIRY INTO DRUG LAW REFORMSubmissions due Friday 17th March 2017We’ve been talking about this inquiry since November 2015, when the Australian Sex Party’s Fiona Patten MP pushed for a broad ranging inquiry into the state’s drug laws. Inquiries like this are conducted to give you, the citizen, a chance to comment on legislative issues. It is also a chance for academics and professional organisations to provide their expertise to often complex issues, with the goal of creating better policy outcomes in the future.Making a submission doesn’t have to be hard or complex. If you’re reading this and don’t know what you could add, remember that every voice counts, even if you only have something minor to add. Many people make one page submissions to inquiry focusing only on their personal knowledge. These submissions are an important part of the overall process as they add a level of common realism to the discussion, which is often lacking, especially when the right-wing tabloid media (grumble, grumble, Herald Sun, Channel 7 News) try to define and direct the discussion and propose their own legislative outcomes.Visit the Enpsychedelia website for an outline on a few issues that we have been covering since the show began on 3CR in 2015. MAKE YOUR VOICE COUNT!PSYCHEDELIC SOCIETY FEBRUARY EVENTMUSICKalacoma - KaleidoscoperKalacoma are a five piece trip-hop/electronica band writing music which draws on their love of vintage tone and the avant-garde. By fusing electronic and acoustic elements, they layer intricate rhythms and filmic soundscapes with soaring melodic vocals, weaving diverse influences into something hard to pin down but seamless in its execution.Temple Step ProjectTemple Step Project’s intention is to bring the vibration of sacred ceremony to the dance floor via sacred bass music. Dubstep and Glitch Hop meets Middle Eastern and Shamanic, Spiritual Music. Stomping beats and whomping bass meet acoustic instrumental melodies, chants and overtones. Progressive synthesizers merge seamlessly with flutes, violins and oud. The Temple Step Project brings a unique blend of future tech music with an uplifting and healing vibration, a sense of the sacred and a depth like nothing before it.

Back from the dusty, sun-drenched pop-up village that is Rainbow Serpent Festival, where the battles for sensible drug policy continue. This episode of Enpsychedelia brings a variety of guests in the studio, on the phone and via Skype to chat about pill testing, Victoria's drug inquiry, post-Rainbow discussion and some psychedelic dreamings.During the past fortnight, Port Phillip City Council voted to support trials of pill testing, following the death and hospitalisation of several people on Chapel Street in Melbourne, potentially caused by unknown novel psychoactive substances (NPS).Guests:US artist, musician and futurist Michael Garfield.Dr. Monica Barratt, Drug Policy Modelling Program at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.Melissa Warner and Dr. Dean Wright of The Australian Psychedelic SocietyMember of the (Victoria) Legislative Council and President of the Australian Sex Party Fiona PattenPort Phillip City Council, Gateway Ward councillor and member of the Victorian Greens Ogy Simic

Nick, Ash and Penny discuss the week in drug news.MUSICInterpulse - Revolution of Consciousness (feat. Russell Brand)INTERVIEWGreg Kasarik, founder of Community of Infinite Colour and self-described mystic joins the program to discuss the principles which he has founded his psychedelic religion upon. We discover that Greg is a drug-taking, atheist church leader. This is the 21st century, after all. For more information on Greg's ideas and the Community of Infinite Colour, visit his website.MUSICAnimatronix - Ina-TekINTERVIEW CONT.OUTROSupport Don't Punish is coming up on Sunday June 26th and this year's Melbourne event will be held on Saturday June 25th in Footscray. If you're in town, make sure to come along and see what we're up to! Enpsychedelia and 3CR will be there, recording the whole event for broadcast on Sunday's show.Have a listen to our Community Service Announcement for the event here:

After covering the week in drug news, Enpsychedelia focuses on medical cannabis.INTERVIEW #1Tony Bower is the man behind Mullaways Medical Cannabis, an Australian company that makes cannabis tinctures for medicinal purposes. The medicine he makes is still illegal, but the results mean that Tony will keep doing what he's doing for as long as he can.INTERVIEW #2Fiona Patten created the Australian Sex Party in 2009 to fight for Australians' civil liberties. She was elected to the Legislative Council of Victorian Parliament in late 2014 and has been working hard in many areas, including drug law reform. Fiona joins Enpsychedelia to talk about the recent moves by the Victorian Government to legalise medical cannabis.INTERVIEW #3Cassie Batten joins Enpsychedelia to tell us about her experience with medical cannabis, her three year old son Cooper and the law.Medicinal cannabis: Melbourne parents claim hospital withdrew son's treatment due to 'legal pressure' (ABC 5th October 2014)

Nick and Ash discuss the week's news in drugs.MUSICStickybuds vs. Mista Savona - Clean Air feat. Burro BantonSEGMENTMelbourne artists Andy Thomas and Steve Willis (The LightWizard) join Enpsychedelia to talk about their art and the future of blurs boundaries between the technological and natural.Find out more about Andy Thomas.Find out more about the LightWizard.

Nick brings you this weeks drugs news.MUSICCircuit Bent - Sexy/Heavy - Battlesushi (remix)SEGMENTA New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin is a movie about the science of the key psychoactive chemical in psilocybin.MUSICKalacoma - The ContenderINTERVIEWDr. Albert Garcia Romeu joins Enpsychedelia to talk about his research into psychedelics at Johns Hopkins University in the US, specifically focusing on his research into psilocybin being used for nicotine addiction.MUSICThe Wednesday Experiment - Slithering Beast

Nick and Ash discuss the week in drug news, with a special focus on a Channel 7 News report, seriously over-stating the potential danger of nitrous oxide (nangs) when used recreationally. We're pretty sure that Channel 7 News claims that "experts" warn of "possible brain damage" for every single drug they report on, whether the drug is even real or not. We guess it's on the drug story template form in the book of lazy journalism. Check out the full write-up of this story at the Enpsychedelia website.MUSICRap News - IMMIGRANTS! Feat. Donald Trump & Tony AbbottSEGMENTEventsMUSICTom Cosm - Tipsy GitzSEGMENTEntheogenesis Australis Conference piece:Beatriz Labate - Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond This presentation will offer an overview of the book “Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond”, co-edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar, and published through Oxford University Press in 2014. The book discusses how Amerindian epistemology and ontology related to certain indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon spread to Western societies, and how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have dialogued with and transformed these forest traditions. The collection also focuses on how shamanic rituals have been spreading and developing in post-traditional urban contexts throughout the world. Special attention is given to ayahuasca, a psychoactive drink usually composed of two plants, the vine Banisteriopsis caapi and leaves of the Psychotria viridis bush. Ayahuasca use has spread beyond its Amazonian origin and instigated a variety of legal and cultural responses in the countries it has spread to. The chapters address some of the ways these responses have influenced ritual design and performance in traditional and non-traditional contexts. The book analyzes how displaced indigenous people and rubber tappers are engaged in creative reinvention of rituals, and how these rituals help build ethnic alliances and cultural and political strategies for their marginalized position. It also explores modernity’s fascination with “tradition” and the “other.” This phenomenon is directly tied to important classic and contemporary issues in anthropology. One of them is the relationship between the expansion of ecotourism and ethnic tourism, recent indigenous cultural revivals, and the emergence of new ethnic identities. Another focus of this book is on trends in the commodification of indigenous cultures in post-colonial contexts, and the combination of shamanism with a network of health and spiritually related services. Finally, the book addresses the topic of identity hybridization in global societies. The previously unpublished ethnographies and analysis collected in these chapters add to the understanding of the role of ritual in mediating the encounter between indigenous traditions and modern societies.SEGMENTRak Razam - In A Perfect World Podcast snippet. Rak speaks with Martin Ball in Episode 97 of his podcast.Join experiential journalist Rak Razam and author, visionary artist, musician, podcaster and entheogenic explorer Martin Ball, Ph.D., as they engage in a far-reaching discussion about entheogens, DMT, “radical nonduality” and the Mind of GOD.

Nick and Ash discuss the week in drug news.MUSICMelbourne glitch-hoppy, dub steppish heavy bass lads Boifrenz, with Kong.SEGMENTDr. David Caldicott is an emergency consultant working at Calvary Hospital in Canberra and has been advocating for harm reduction policies to be implemented around drug users for well over a decade. Dr. Daldicott speaks with Enpsychedelia about a variety of issues, from the need for pill testing at festivals and other events where drug use happens, to the rise of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), new drugs that have a very short history of human use and hardly any information on the risks... or the benefits.

First, a dedication to my friend Max Luca-Reddaway, who passed away on the 23rd of July 2015. This is for him:You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly. Amen.MUSICDaheen - AnthropoceneSEGMENTFiona Patten of the Australian Sex Party discusses Portugal's decriminalised drug policy, after a visit there back in 2012. This segment comes from episode 9 of the first season of Enpsychedelia which was a podcast in 2012.

Nick and Ash discuss the week in drug news.MUSICDysphemic - Psychedelic BreakfastElf Tranzporter - Blessed Up (feat. Vida Sunshyne)Ethereal Lotus Fleet by Elf TranzporterOpiuo - SlipINTERVIEWDr. Monica Barratt joins Enpsychedelia to talk about her recent journey to Portugal, to present at the Club Health conference in Lisbon. Dr. Barratt is a researcher who focuses in particular on darknet markets, especially those which deal with currently illicit substances.In A Perfect World (podcast)Rak Razam is an experiential journalist who has traveled around the world, exploring issues around psychedelics, especially the esoteric and archaic revival. Only a small snippet of Rak's full program was played on the show. Make sure you click the link to listen to his full podcast.Nick and Ash round out the program with further discussion on some of the news items and other drug policy issues.In A Perfect World (podcast)Rak Razam is an experiential journalist who has traveled around the world, exploring issues around psychedelics, especially the esoteric and archaic revival. Only a small snippet of Rak's full program was played on the show. Make sure you click the link to listen to his full podcast.- See more at: http://www.3cr.org.au/enpsychedelia/episode-201507121400/ep2-dancewizes-steph-tzanetis-and-prof-david-penington#sthash.hDq58bdC.dpufIn A Perfect World (podcast)Rak Razam is an experiential journalist who has traveled around the world, exploring issues around psychedelics, especially the esoteric and archaic revival. Only a small snippet of Rak's full program was played on the show. Make sure you click the link to listen to his full podcast.- See more at: http://www.3cr.org.au/enpsychedelia/episode-201507121400/ep2-dancewizes-steph-tzanetis-and-prof-david-penington#sthash.hDq58bdC.dpuf

This is the first episode of Enpsychedelia on 3CR. Nick, Ash and Greg cover news in the first segment.INTERVIEW #1Jane and Nadia from Harm Reduction Victoria (HRV) join the program to talk about their roles at HRV, how they became involved with harm reduction and their hopes for the future.INTERVIEW #2Andrew McMillen is the author of Talking Smack and joined Enpsychedelia to discuss his book and how it was received across Australia more broadly.Of all the creative industries, the most distinct link between drug use and creativity lies within music. The two elements seem to be intertwined, inseparable; that mythical phrase “sex, drugs and rock and roll” has been bandied about with a wink and a grin for decades. But is it all smoke and mirrors, or does that cliché ring true for some of our best-known performers?In this fascinating book, journalist Andrew McMillen talks with Australian musicians about their thoughts on – and experiences with – illicit, prescription and legal drugs. Through a series of in-depth and intimate interviews, he tells the stories of those who have bitten into the forbidden fruit and avoided choking.Finally on the show, we discuss a range of topics around reforming drug policy in Australia. Greg Kasarik is online here.