Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev appeared yesterday on the Drug Science Podcast to speak to former UK drugs tsar Professor David Nutt about his powerful experience with the South American psychedelic brew ayahuasca. Nutt has appeared today on Lebedev’s own podcast Brave New World to discuss Lord Lebedev’s firm belief “in the power of psychedelics as a cure for today’s mental health crisis“. The FDA is reviewing psychoactive substances, Australia has already legalised them for treating mental health issues…

We already know that use of magic mushrooms can boost economic productivity and make investors money. With research showing that left-wing individuals are dramatically more likely to be diagnosed with mental health conditions, psychedelics could solve rampant socialism too. No wonder the last Labour government criminalised harvesting and using naturally growing psilocybin mushrooms …