"Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world's largest psychedelics conference, and you'll see exhibitors hawking everything from mushroom jewelry, to chewable gummies containing extracts of the psychoactive succulent plant kanna, to broad flat-brim baseball caps emblazoned with "MDMA" and "IBOGA." Booths publicize organizations such as the Ketamine Taskforce and the Psychedelic Parenthood Community, and even The Faerie Rings, a live-action feature film looking to attract investors."
"It's a motley, multifarious symposium where indigenous-plant-medicine healers mingle with lanyard-clad pharma-bros, legendary underground LSD chemists, and workaday stoners tottering around in massive red and white toadstool hats that make them look like that cute little mushroom guy from Mario. And yet, oddest among such oddities may be the sight of enormously burly NFL tough guys talking candidly about their feelings."
Research into whether drugs like ayahuasca can mitigate traumatic brain injury remains in its infancy, while professional athletes are already experimenting with psychedelic therapies. Psychedelic Science at the Colorado Convention Center presents a vast marketplace of products and organizations, from mushroom jewelry and kanna gummies to booths for the Ketamine Taskforce and Psychedelic Parenthood Community. The conference mixes indigenous-plant healers, pharmaceutical entrepreneurs, underground chemists, and casual attendees in surreal costume. At a keynote titled "Healing Behind the Highlights," NFL players Jordan Poyer, Robert Gallery, and Jon Feliciano described ayahuasca retreat experiences that helped them reconcile on-field toughness with human vulnerability.
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