#9 Victoria Wueshner and Joel Brierre on the God molecule

Uncharted Territory

What's the best way to have possibly the most intense and short-lived psychedelic experience possible? Psychedelic facilitators Victoria Wueshner and Joel Brierre, who run the Tandava retreat centre in Mexico where they serve 5-MeO-DMT, explain their protocol and how to avoid the many shysters in the space. Until relatively recently, most of those seeking to ingest 'the God molecule' were seasoned psychonauts but today more and more people who have had no previous psychedelic experiences are smoking the drug to experience the psychospiritual and medical benefits that it appears to bring about, plus - for some - a cosmic full release, and more. Serving to such folks requires a far greater level of care in the emerging industry, which has experienced significant growing pains in the wild west of an unregulated market mostly focused in Central America. We discuss the harms done by cowboy facilitators, how Victoria and Joel can retain their strong reputations and whether synthetic 5-MeO is as good as the natural medicine, bufo, from which it is derived. If you'd like to read more on the topic, check out Mattha's Vice piece 'Tourists Are Now Smoking Toad Venom in Mexico’s Hipster Town Tulum'.