How to Legalize Medical Psychedelics in Your Country — Tania de Jong on Australia’s Breakthrough

Resumen

Tania de Jong recounts her journey from being a drug-naive individual to co-founding Mind Medicine Australia, a charity that successfully advocated for the legalization of psilocybin and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. She shares her personal transformative experience, the grassroots campaign strategies used to influence the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration, and the ongoing work in building a clinical ecosystem that prioritizes patient access, rigorous clinician training, and data-driven mental health reform.

Temas tratados

• Personal Transformation
• Grassroots Activism

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We're standing in the kitchen and my husband goes, "It's been rescheduled." And I just said, "No, you can't be serious." And I said, "You've got to show me this." And I read the document. I kept thinking, "There must be an error in the document. It can't have been rescheduled." And no, it's been rescheduled. So, we start dancing around the kitchen. It's like, "This is unbelievable. This is really amazing. We were so thrilled." The headlines start coming out from around the world. Australia has rescheduled. Australia is the first country to do this. Look at Australia now. Australia's leading the world in this field. And it's like, this is surreal. >> Where do you think it makes sense to begin? I mean, we could just begin with >> the trip treatment and how that domino knocked over so many dominoes. >> It did. >> And then what you did? >> Yes. >> With all of the momentum of said dominoes. D…