Psy Diaries

#010 Ben Lightburn interview: creating natural psilocybin for the masses

September 14, 2021 Ray Christian / Ben Lightburn Season 1 Episode 10
Psy Diaries
#010 Ben Lightburn interview: creating natural psilocybin for the masses
Show Notes

We talk with Benjamin Lightburn, CEO and cofounder of Filament Health, about blending natural psychedelics with novel technology. We discuss the "entourage effect," Vancouver dispensaries openly selling psychedelics, and Filament's mystery psychedelic compound coming soon.


 Highlights

— THE NUGGET: Toronto and Michigan with new psychedelic legalization bills (0:32)

— THE NOODLE: How to compare MDMA, LSD and psilocybin applications (0:53)

— Why they chose natural psilocybin and their approach to IP (1:28)

— Does the "entourage effect" work, and how to prove it (6:49)

— Psychedelic "suggestion bias" (8:12)

— The path for healthy people to pursue legal psychedelics (11:30)

— The case for legalization (13:23)

— Dispensaries in Vancouver are openly selling magic mushrooms (16:24) 

— The first pharmaceutical grade natural psychedelic product (17:55) 

— SOUL SEARCH: Ben's preferred mind-altering substance on a desert island  (21:20)

— SLAP and a CLAP: Eleusis and Novamind (24:53)


Ben Lightburn

He is a proven entrepreneur and leader specializing in the research, development and commercialization of novel extraction technologies. 

He is applying this experience to the delivery of psychedelic medicines as CEO and Co-Founder of Filament Health

Find Ben here:

https://filament.health/ 

See the inspiration behind the Psychedelic Diaries here.