Building a psychedelic media company: DoubleBlind's Shelby Hartman and Madison Margolin

Business Trip

Today’s episode features Shelby Hartman and Madison Margolin from DoubleBlind, a psychedelic magazine and media company founded in 2019 covering timely, untold stories about the expansion of psychedelics around the globe. Focused on how the industry can engage in sacred reciprocity and ethical psychedelic therapies, DoubleBlind is a for-profit company working on becoming a fully licensed certified B corporation.
Links to topics discussed in this episode:
What It’s Like to Have Sex on Different Kinds of Psychedelics
How Oregon is Leading the Country in Drug Policy Reform
Entheogen: Definition and History
How Psychedelics are Reigniting Judaism
Michael Pollan's book How to Change Your Mind
Ayelet Waldman's book: A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
MDMA Testing Kits from DanceSafe
Read the transcript here.
Watch episode 2 on YouTube.

Created by Greg Kubin and Matias Serebrinsky
Host: Greg Kubin
Produced by Jonathan A. Davis

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Theme music by Dorian Love
Additional music: Plasticity by Blue Dot Sessions
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Chapters

1. Beginning of Interview w/ Shelby & Madison (00:01:15)

2. How does DoubleBlind decide on articles? (00:03:44)

3. Grow your own mushrooms (00:04:29)

4. Access to psychedelics in USA (00:04:48)

5. Entheogen (00:05:07)

6. Oregon: Leading the country on drug policy reform (00:05:40)

7. Sex on psychedelics (00:06:32)

8. Multiple lines of business (00:07:04)

9. Advertising psychedelics (00:09:34)

10. For-profit psychedelic companies (00:13:11)

11. B corp company (00:15:16)

12. MAPS and Compass Pathways (00:17:40)

13. Sacred reciprocity (00:20:55)

14. Advice for starting psychedelic company (00:24:11)

15. Check out DoubleBlind articles (00:25:25)