Do you travel to combat climate change? The group promotes psychedelic solutions.

Miami – South Florida employs innovative ideas every day to address the threat of climate change. The startup tech company is a 3D printed seawall, turning seaweed into fertilizer and even building homes from recycled plastic.

One of the recent groups in Miami has more unorthodox ideas to deal with an existential crisis for South Florida in the coming decades. They are pitching the notion that tripping over some magical mushrooms and other hallucinogens could encourage a mass “awareness shift” to do better for the Earth.

Aside from the major legal hurdles, psilocybin, the mushroom substance that causes trips, is a controlled substance, and using it or selling it is a crime in Florida and many states — if more people transcend the psychedelic realm, it means that more people can encourage more people to be more adored and deeper personal connections in nature. Psychedelics for climate action hope that perhaps, perhaps, humanity may learn to live in harmony “like a flock of birds.”

“Psychedelics teach us that we are all one and we are all families on this planet and that we need to collectively protect our homes,” said Marissa Feinberg, founder of the group.

The group members first met in Miami last month, with the goal of subtly subtly showing psychedelics that have shown promise in treating several mental health issues, including depression and addiction. The evening consisted of lectures that followed meditation and dance at Little Haiti’s Climate Innovation Hub. Speakers included Mikkoski locals, Miami-based ketamine therapists and visitors from Switzerland.

Yadira Diaz, who heads the group’s Miami branch, said while living in California, she urged her to pivot her career with a psychedelic drug called DMT and a psychedelic drug called mushrooms. She returned to Miami to build climate startup Gradible. There, we worked with clients like the factory town at the event venue to identify ways to reduce waste and energy that ultimately save business money.

“It can be a truly beautiful and powerful awakening,” Diaz said. “When we do our best, we do our best.”

Psychedelic travel can produce intense emotions or “in vitro experiences” including hallucinations. It is said to be a feeling that time will stop. On a good trip, users say that when nature appears to be more saturated and vibrant, they can move to appear to be breathing.

Diaz said he went to kayak with some friends at the Florida key. They took some mushrooms, then went on a hike and snorkeling. During the psychedelic experience, she said she spoke about how Key was first to go from rising sea levels and how lucky they were to experience it.

“It was a beautiful experience with a beautiful group of people with the right environment, a beautiful group with the right dose, and we were all playing around and having the best time,” Diaz said.

Psychedelics are illegal in Florida, but there are some mushrooms, aka shrooms, but they are quite widely used, and all the bills introduced to try to decriminalize them have died. Last year, a Florida bill was now introduced to the committee, which could require the Department of Health to conduct research into alternative mental health treatments such as psilocybin and ketamine.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a type of ketamine, a drug originally approved as an anesthetic for children, to treat depression in adults with treatment-resistant depression.

Francesca Serquione, an overall therapist living in Miami, said that some clients suffer from anxiety over the meaning of climate change. The ketamine, which patients ordered online and placed under the tongue, was particularly useful for one of the long-time clients from New York who lost their home after Hurricane Sandy.

“Ketamine helps reorganize brain activity and process trauma,” Cerchione said. “It’s a way of connecting with the unity of the world (for the patient) and doing something outside of themselves.”

The event the group has previously hosted in New York has provided microdose drinks with legal cannabis that are less spiritual than weeds, and functional lion mane mushrooms.

“We see these events as a kind of integration, so that these people come together, connect with each other, build a community, and support each other,” Feinberg said.

For those interested, there is a 6-day mushroom cochin grate treatment in a legal jurisdiction. The last two are in the Netherlands. The program, called Connected Leadership, was the first program to study the psychedelic creativity and decision-making of business leaders observed by Professor Bennett Zellner at the University of Maryland. The group says even the founders and managers of small multinational companies paid about $10,000, including flights, to administer the psychedelics.

Pastor Houston Cypress, who read the poem during the event, said he grew up benefiting from the Mikkoski plant-based medicines. He later told the Miami Herald that these plants are being threatened by development or bad policies. He wants to adhere to the conditions under which plant medicines grow.

“Let’s make sure these plant medicines are available in the future. Let’s make sure they are available to the next generation,” he said.

The argument raised at the Psychedelic Science Conference is whether Indigenous plants, such as Peyote, can be brought into the mainstream with respect from the ground and indigenous people. Cypress believes there is an ethical way to do it.

“We can use science to produce these medicines in less-extractive forms. “We can make them available in a way that respects nature, respects Indigenous communities, and is not used to age.”

This certainly isn’t the first group to suggest that psychedelics can make the world a better place. In the 1960s, The Beatles spoke about the music of psychedelic inspiration (mostly LSD) and how they felt that giving it to all leaders would put an end to the war. Hallucinogens also influenced multiple hits, including “Come Together.” But they later stopped praises the virtue, according to Rolling Stone.

Veterans are also on the forefront of fighting for psychedelics for post-traumatic stress disorder treatment. The Department of Veterans Affairs has allocated millions of dollars to psychedelic therapy programs to treat PTSD. Some veterans didn’t wait for the funds to arrive and went to Mexico for treatment. However, there are also important questions about its long-term use and potential side effects.

Sen. Jay Collins, a Tampa area Republican, sponsored a USF Health project that funded clinical trials on the efficacy of psilocybin as a treatment for PTSD in veterans. But contrary to Psyca’s goals, he also introduced a bill to erase the term “climate change” from state law.

The next steps for the Miami group are still known. One idea Psyca has is to try out mushrooms and other psychedelics and create a climate action guide to help people get involved in sustainable communities.

“The big, furry, bold goal is to actually create conscious change, catalyze this in this community and help you make yourself outdated,” Feinberg said. “We shouldn’t need the entire climate action movement. It should be a way of life.”

The story was originally published by the Miami Herald and was shared in collaboration with the Martin Room Initiative, founded by the Florida Creemate Report Network, the Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Palm Beach Post, the Orlando Sentinel, the Orlando Sentinel, WLRN Public Media, and the Tampa Bay Times.