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The MAPS Canada Podcast hosts a variety of guests from scientists on the cutting edge to popular figures sharing personal experiences, to policy makers discussing the present and future legal landscape of psychedelics. By bringing together such a broad range of voices, the MAPS Canada podcast provides listeners with a multi-dimensional view of the psychedelic movement in Canada and around the world.
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March 27, 2025
MAPS Canada presents:
Harm Reduction & Post Trip Vulnerability, Are You Ready?
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
SHINE Collective, a nonprofit supporting survivors of harm in psychedelic spaces.
March 21, 2025
MAPS Canada Presents:
The importance of Set, Setting and Sitter at Psychedelic Clinical Trials
February 22, 2025
MAPS Canada Presents:
Cafe Scientifique on Psychedelics and Health Equity
The purpose of this CIHR-funded Cafe Scientifique was to bring together a panel of leading researchers in Canada with expertise on psychedelics and health equity. This hybrid event was held on March 10, 2024 in Vancouver and online with participants across Canada. The program included presentations from panelists: Dr. Erika Dyck, Dr. Monnica Williams, Amy Bartlett and Otis Jasper. This video is a recording of the event, including the panel discussion, a question and answer session, breakout discussions, and an overview of the graphic recording provided by Michelle Buchholz. Kim Haxton moderated the event.
January 25, 2025
MAPS Canada Presents:
Arnie’s Psychedelic Journey of Creative Unlearning
Podcast with Arnie Guha
Arnie Guha is the creative visionary behind Acid4Yuppies Studio. Arnie brings a supercharged visual language to the global art scene, drawing inspiration from the psychedelic art movement of the 1960s and the rave culture of the 1990s. Raised in Calcutta and educated at Jadavpur University, Cambridge University, and the University of British Columbia, Arnie merges contemporary vision with Indian wisdom.
November 18, 2024
MAPS Canada Presents:
Climbing for a Psychedelic Cause: Eric Schwam’s Journey to Complete Everesting 29029
Podcast with Eric Schwam
Eric Schwam, Montreal based entrepreneur, shares his experience taking on the Everesting 29029 challenge to support MAPS Canada and his passion for psychedelic-assisted therapy. He discusses what motivated him to participate and how psychedelics have played a role in his mental health and growth.
November 18 2024
MAPS Canada Presents:
How Psychedelics Can Bring Grace To End-Of-Life
Podcast with Richard Adamson
Perhaps Richard is like many of you: he’s not a therapist or health practitioner and for most of his life personal growth, spirituality, and ritual took a back seat. And there’s nothing like crisis to bring it back. A few years ago, Richard’s wife of 30 years faced a health crisis that proved fatal. That journey resulted in profound changes to his priorities and taught him the potential role psychedelics can play in preparation for death and a healthy grief process for those continuing.
August 25 2024
MAPS Canada Presents:
Psychedelics Professor: Can Psychedelics Resolve the Opiod Crisis?
Podcast with Dr. Zach Walsh
Dr. Zachary Walsh, a leading clinical psychologist and researcher, explores the therapeutic potential of psychedelics in this episode, focusing on psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for opioid titration and his involvement in the Microdose.me study. He explains the distinction between cannabis, used for symptom relief, and psychedelics and discusses the controversial link between cannabis and psychosis, emphasizing the need for further research.
April 24, 2024
MAPS Canada Presents:
Wisdom From The Psychedelic Underground
Podcast with Rachel Harris
Rachel Harris, PhD, is the author of “Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground” and “Listening to Ayahuasca.” A psychologist who has been in private practice for 40 years, she spent 10 years in an academic research department where she published more than 40 scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals and received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator’s Award. Rachel splits her time between an island in Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area
Visit her online at http://www.swimminginthesacred.com.
And consider donating to MAPS Canada at https://mapscanada.org/donate/