🍄 Is psychedelic prohibition finally coming to an end?

In this episode of The Mushroom Podcast, Mr. Fungitarian sits down with Joe Robinson, founder of PsiloSafe and a 20-year veteran of the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, to discuss the future of psilocybin, psychedelic legalization, safe access, and why the movement needs transparency now more than ever.

Joe shares his journey from Big Pharma and healthcare technology into the world of earth-based medicines and explains why he created PsiloSafe — a nonprofit dedicated to establishing testing standards, labeling transparency, and safety frameworks for psychedelic products and producers.

Together they explore the biggest questions facing the psychedelic movement today:

🍄 Should psilocybin be regulated or simply decriminalized?

🍄 Can state access programs and underground communities coexist?

🍄 What role should synthetic psilocybin play in therapy?

🍄 How do we keep consumers safe in an unregulated market?

🍄 What can psychedelics learn from the mistakes of the cannabis industry?

🍄 Is community healing more effective than clinical models?

This episode dives deep into the intersection of policy, healing, consumer safety, and the future of psychedelic medicine.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction to The Mushroom Podcast

01:27 State Access Programs and Their Importance

05:03 The Role of Synthetics in Psilocybin Therapy

08:37 Decriminalization and Its Impact on Access

10:19 Understanding the Experience: Bad Trips vs Tough Experiences

12:17 Education and Awareness in Psychedelic Use

15:00 The Cannabis and Psychedelics Movement

18:27 The Birth of PsiloSafe and Its Mission

23:45 Empowering Patient Communities

25:24 Consumer Awareness and Product Safety

27:42 The Tipping Point for Psychedelic Acceptance

31:16 Celebrational Use of Psychedelics

36:11 Micro Discipline: Preparing for Psychedelic Experiences

42:20 Future of PsiloSafe and Safe Access

About Joe Robinson:

Joe Robinson is the founder of PsiloSafe, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public health and safety through education, transparency, product testing standards, and harm reduction practices in emerging psychedelic markets. Prior to founding PsiloSafe, Joe spent more than two decades working in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and medical technology before transitioning into advocacy for earth-based medicines and psychedelic safety initiatives.

Connect with Joe & PsiloSafe:

🌐 PsiloSafe Website: https://www.wearepsilosafe.org

Connect With @mrfungitarian: https://mrfungitarian.store

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What does it really look like to rebuild your life after rock bottom? In this episode, Johnny sits down with Johnny Chase, founder of Dry Culture, for one of the most raw and honest conversations about sobriety, identity, and discipline you'll hear anywhere. These two have history, and it shows. No filters, no fluff, just two people who've lived it.

Johnny Chase opens up about what it felt like to be two or three days deep into a bender and still sitting at the same bar in the same clothes, the moment he realized alcohol (not weed) was the real gateway drug, and why rehab taught him how to stop drinking but left him completely unprepared for what came next. He talks about the loneliness of early sobriety, "people pruning" over 100 contacts from his phone, and how one mile on a treadmill in rehab became the foundation for a completely new identity.

From losing 50 pounds and running two marathons to preparing to run 339 miles across the state of Iowa as part of an 8-man relay, Johnny's story is a masterclass in what happens when you replace one addiction with a better one and build your life around it. He and Johnny J also go deep on the intersection of sobriety and psilocybin, why the running community is becoming more open to mushrooms, and how flow state might be the missing piece for endurance athletes.

Johnny Chase is launching his 30 Day Reset workbook program, a physical guided journal built around four pillars: movement, discipline, identity, and environment. It was designed to do what rehab doesn't: give you something to replace the habit with.

What we get into:

• The moment Johnny Chase knew alcohol was destroying his life
• How cocaine entered the picture and why money made it worse
• "People pruning" and why it was the most important thing he did in early sobriety
• Running as identity and how one mile changed everything
• Losing 50 pounds just by stopping drinking
• What rehab actually does (and doesn't) prepare you for
• The 30 Day Reset: the four pillars and how the program works
• Running across Iowa on his birthday
• The sober community's evolving relationship with mushrooms and microdosing
• Psilocybin, flow state, and the mental game of endurance running
• Why "recovering out loud" is the most powerful thing you can do

About Johnny Chase:

Johnny Chase is the founder of Dry Culture, a sobriety lifestyle brand and community built for people who are past rock bottom and still in the rebuild. More than two and a half years sober, he's lost over 50 pounds and completed multiple marathons, with running becoming a cornerstone of his recovery and identity. His flagship product, The 30 Day Reset, is a 30-day physical workbook built around four pillars (movement, discipline, identity, and environment) designed to replace the habit of drinking with something better.

Connect with Johnny Chase:

Instagram: @dry_culture

Website: Dry Culture

Find the 30 Day Reset and all program info via his website above.

Eight years ago, Johnny Staniszewski was a personal trainer and nutrition coach who got caught in the medical system, handed a prescription, and ended up in a two-and-a-half-year opiate addiction. One night, alone with a handful of mushrooms that had been sitting in his closet, everything changed. He woke up the next morning sober. He has not looked back since.

In this first episode, Johnny sits down with friend and producer Jeff Fell to lay the foundation for what The Mush Room is, why it exists, and where it is going. They cover Johnny's origin story from personal trainer to mycologist to Mr. Fungitarian, what it took to spend six years building farms, feeding kids in schools, and growing millions of pounds of substrate before the world was even ready to hear the word psilocybin.

They also get into the research that is finally catching up, including an 80-year-old Alzheimer's patient who regained her speech 19 hours after a five-gram dose, and a study showing a 70% reduction in suicidal ideation after just one week of psilocybin use.

Johnny breaks down what is coming to the show: HPLC chemists, anti-aging doctors, sober athletes, everyday people whose lives were quietly rebuilt by fungi. He also shares the vision behind the Skool community and Micro Discipline program launching soon, and why 10 million Fungitarians is not a marketing goal. It is the number required to make real, collective change.

This is episode one. Welcome to the table.

Follow Johnny on all socials, find the Forgotten supplements and ways to work with him here: https://mrfungitarian.store