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Global Psychedelic Society
globalpsychedelic.org

Psychedelic Seminars
psychsems.com

Lajolla the Band
https://linktr.ee/lajollatheband

SoundCloud
soundcloud.com/mikemargolies

Substack
mikemargolies.substack.com

Walking the Earth Podcast
wtepodcast.com

Twitter
@mikemargolies

Instagram
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LinkedIn
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YouTube
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E-mail
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Journalism and Writing

The Pathway to Peace is not a Plan, it’s a Process (Substack, 15 January 2024)

Biden Promises Reform of His Punitive Drug Laws (Lucid News, 23 December 2020)

COVID Bonding: Parties, Dating, & Human Connection in a Pandemic (Lucid News, 12 September 2020)

Biden RAVE Act Legislation From 2003 Continues to Impede Risk Reduction Efforts (Lucid News, 29 April 2020)

Prescription Psychedelics are Almost Here—But Western Medicine Isn’t Ready.
A paradigm shift needs to happen as psychedelics go legal. PEACH—Psychedelic Education and Community Healing—is the path forward. (DoubleBlind, 9 December 2019)

The Ibogaine Conversation [Editor] (Psymposia, December 2017 – January 2018)

Ibogaine treatment comes with risks. We had a discussion about safety with medical providers. (Psymposia, 3 January 2018)

How has Western influence changed the traditional use of iboga in Gabon? We talked to a French guy living there. (Psymposia, 6 December 2017)

Crowdfunding Psychedelic Harm Reduction in the Czech Republic (Psymposia, 13 July 2017)

Dennis McKenna on his ethnopharmacology conference 50 years in the making (Psymposia, 5 June 2017)

The DEA Scheduling System is a Joke (Psymposia, 27 February 2017)

The Servant Libertarian Manifesto: Consent, Choice, Compassion and Community (Laissez Faire, 8 October 2016)

How About a Positive Nicotine & Alcohol Story? (Psymposia, 17 August 2016)

Baltimore Uprising: The Untold Story (Psymposia, 27 June 2016)

Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet conversation series [Editor] (Psymposia, May – July 2016)

Interviews

Building Healing Communities with Mike Margolies (Ketamine Startup Podcast, 16 July 2025)

BDSM, Kink, and Psychedelics: Exploring the Edge with Mike Margolies (Modern Anarchy, 12 March 2025)

The World That Is Possible For Us (Visions of the Village, 21 January 2025)

Global Psychedelic Society – Connecting Psychedelic Communities & Creating Global Change (Beth Weinstein, 1 July 2024)

Kind Weird Wild meets Lajolla The Band (25 February 2024)

Swedish Psychedelic Society IG Live (18 January 2024)

Reinventing Organizations, Lessons From Burning Man, and Batman & The Joker (Psychedelics Today, 9 January 2024)

From Taboo to Transformation: How Psychedelic Societies Are Shifting the Narrative Globally – Mike Margolies and Jaz Cadoch on the work of Global Psychedelic Societies (Mindy Body Health & Politics, 6 June 2023)

Psychedelics Today IG Live (30 May 2023)

Global Psychedelic Society (Mycopreneur, 30 May 2023)

Mike Margolies – Psychedelic Seminars: the Benefits, Risks, and Complexities of Psychedelics (Psychedelics Today, 5 February 2020)

Sharing our Psychedelic Stories (The Third Wave Podcast, 27 January 2017)

Cognitive Liberty, Psychedelics and the Drug War (Laissez Faire, 13 September 2016)

Shamans & Psychedelics, Ayahuasca In Peru (The Travelers Podcast, 24 April 2015)

Media Mentions

10News speaks to Ocean Beach business & resident about pier closure, repair (ABC 10News San Diego, 19 March 2025)

How to Find Your Local Psychedelic Society—and Make the Most of It (DoubleBlind, 12 October 2023)

You Can Now Join Psychedelic Communities All Over the World (DoubleBlind, 7 June 2023)

Psychedelic Store Busts Force Difficult Questions (Lucid News, 14 December 2022)

The Psychedelics Industry Could Offer a Whole New Approach to Work (Rolling Stone, 2 October 2021)

Grandparents of Psychedelics Ann and Sasha Shulgin Honored by Friends and Fellow Researchers (Lucid News, 26 July 2021)

CryptoPsychedelic Conferences Examine Links Between Psychedelics and Blockchain Technology (Lucid News, 4 March 2021)

The Case for Macrodosing (Rolling Stone, 10 December 2020)

The Systemic Culture Problems of the Psychedelics Industry (Lucid News, 1 October 2020)

Psychedelic Community in the Social Distancing Era (Lucid News, 7 April 2020)

As Mind-Altering Drugs Meet The Mainstream, The D.C. Psychedelic Society Is Bringing The City’s ‘Trippy People’ Together (DCist, 11 June 2018)