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Ifetayo Harvey, Founder of the POC Psychedelic Collective, speaks about drug use, slavery, vulnerability, depression, and the epidemic of untreated trauma that people are trying to address and self-medicate.

In this episode of Bespoken Bones, we discuss:

• What a Euphonium is and how music played a big part in her life


• Passing down ancestral blessings


• Ife’s favorite memories growing up


• How slavery isn’t really talked about at school


• Having mixed feelings growing up in Charleston, SC


• Putting value on the land where people lived and suffered


• Slave dwelling and the importance of ancestors


• Her work as the director in the Psychedelic Collective


• The power of sharing your vulnerability with people 26.23-27.20


• Depression and how she started using psychedelics


• The epidemic of untreated trauma that people are trying to address and self-medicate


• The stigma of drug use and blackness


• The laws about drugs and the drug war


• White supremacy and the war on drugs

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Explore these Resources

In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

• https://wellcelium.org/


• https://www.pocpsychedelics.com/

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