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Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, he is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he is a clinical professor of medicine and professor of public health. A New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Weil is the author of 15 books on health and wellbeing, including Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better, and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own; Fast Food, Good Food; True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure; Spontaneous Happiness; Healthy Aging; and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health. He is the editorial director of DrWeil.com, the leading online resource for healthy living based on the philosophy of integrative medicine. He is also a founder and partner in the growing family of True Food Kitchen restaurants. 

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• The influence international travel had on Dr. Weil from an early age.
• Dr. Weil's years at Harvard: first psychedelic experiences and early research on Cannabis.
• Pioneering integrative medicine—and becoming classified as a “dangerous person” by the White House.
• Dr. Weil's story of using Cannabis while speaking in front of Congress.
• Expanding the paradigm of psychedelic research.
• Defining Integrative Health.
• Lessons from the psychedelic wave of the sixties.
• Misunderstood medicinal and psychoactive plants.
• The future of the psychedelic landscape.

Episode Links:

• Dr. Weil’s Website Andrew Weil Center For Integrative Medicine
• Book: The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin
• Dr. Weil’s book, The Natural Mind
• Dr. Weil’s book From Chocolate To Morphine
• Dr. Charls Nichols’s research at LSU on Psychedelics
• Book: Wizard of the Upper Amazon by F. Bruce Lamb 
• Book: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• Book: Be Here Now by Ram Dass
• Book: The Religion of Tomorrow by Ken Wilber
• Book: The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
• Video: “1950’s Housewife on LSD”
• Books: Pharmako Series by Dale Pendell

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