About the show
As you explore the promising world of psychedelic healing, the MAPS Canada Podcast is your resource for science-based information, learning, and invigorating conversation! Tune in to keep up to date with the international psychedelic movement.
MAPS Canada works with partners in government, business, and the community to advance equitable access to legal and regulated psychedelic medicine in Canada by supporting scientific, multidisciplinary research; advocating for drug policy reform; offering public education.
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Episodes
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Episode 17: Cannabis, Opioid Use Disorder & Overdose Prevention: A Harm Reduction Conversation with Dr MJ Milloy
May 1st, 2025 | 1 hr 19 mins
Using Cannabis to Delay Opioid Use: Harm Reduction Strategies for Overdose Prevention with Dr. M-J Milloy
Why isn’t the evidence around supervised injection sites leading to real change? How does cannabis interact with opioid use treatment? In this episode, Dr. M-J Milloy, Interim Director of Research at BCCSU, dives into the data—and the disconnect—between science and policy. We explore gendered and SES experiences of substance use, the link between housing and drug safety, and how research can drive more compassionate public health responses.
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Episode 16: Healing & Harm Reduction in Psychedelics: A Conversation with Erica Siegal
April 30th, 2025 | 1 hr 18 mins
mental-health, psychedelics, research, science
How can we make psychedelic healing safer?
In this episode, MAPS Canada's Podcast host, Osheen Dayal, talks with Erica Siegal about the ethics, risks, and realities of psychedelic therapy.
Erica is a licensed therapist, harm reduction expert, and the Executive Director of
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Episode 15: The importance of Set, Setting and Sitter at Psychedelic Clinical Trials
April 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 38 secs
mental-health, psychedelics, research, science
A Psychedelic Clinic Trial Cautionary Tale
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Episode 14: How Cannabis Can Act As a Reverse “Gateway Drug” | Dr. Zach Walsh
September 17th, 2024 | 56 mins 18 secs
In this episode of the MAPS Canada Podcast, Osheen Dayal and Luc Briedé-Cooper speak with Dr. Zach Walsh a leading clinical psychologist and researcher at the University of British Columbia
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Episode 13: Wisdom From The Psychedelic Underground | with Rachel Harris
April 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
In this episode of the MAPS Canada Podcast, Luc Briedé-Cooper speaks with Rachel Harris, the author of "Swimming In The Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground"
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Episode 12: You Had a Mystical Experience - Now What? | Podcast With Michael Phillip
December 6th, 2023 | 58 mins 41 secs
In this episode of the MAPS Canada Podcast, our co-host Sébastien Clermont speaks with Michael Phillip, the creator of Third Eye Drops.
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Episode 11: A Christian Minister Took Psychedelics, This Happened | Podcast with Don Lattin
October 4th, 2023 | 56 mins 34 secs
christian psychedelics, christianity, don lattin, nyu john hopkins, psychedelic churches
Listen to this interview with Don Lattin at the Psychedelic Science 2023
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Episode 10: The Soap Maker Quietly Leading the Psychedelic Revolution | Podcast with David Bronner
August 2nd, 2023 | 19 mins 54 secs
consciousness, david bronner, drug policy, education, healing, legalization, neuroscience, plant medicine, psychedelic science, psychedelic science 2023, psychotherapy, ptsd, trauma
Listen to this interview with David Bronner at the Psychedlic Science 2023
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Episode 9: Why You May Soon Have a Local MDMA Clinic | Podcast with Rick Doblin
May 31st, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
maps, mdma therapy, psychedelic history, psychedelic science 2023, rick doblin
Watch this interview with Rick Doblin on new results from the MAPS Phase III clinical trials for MDMA assisted therapy
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Episode 8: Can Psychedelic Help Solve The Climate Crisis? | Podcast with Dr. Dennis McKenna
May 1st, 2023 | 1 hr 3 mins
ayahuasca tourism, biognosis, dennis mckenna, terrence mckenna, the mckenna academy, the psychedelic movement, the war on consciousness
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Episode 7: The Researcher Bringing MDMA Therapy to Ukrainians with Dr. Olga Chernoloz
March 31st, 2023 | 48 mins 43 secs
mdma therapy, russia invasion of ukraine, ukraine, ukraine war, war in ukraine
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Episode 6: How Can Psychedelics Heal Ancestral Trauma? With Kayla Breelove Carter
February 28th, 2023 | 1 hr 7 mins
In this episode of the MAPS Canada Podcast, our co-host Sabrina Ramkellawan speaks with our board member Kayla Breelove Carter discussing trauma, race and psychedelic therapy.
Kayla Breelove Carter works with individuals and organizations to increase their awareness and understanding of trauma, racial trauma, and adverse childhood experiences. With over ten years of clinical experience, Kayla specializes as well in nutritional psychology and psychedelic assisted therapy.