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C.J. Spotswood: The Microdosing Guidebook

CJ Spootswood is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and author of The Microdosing Guidebook - we unpack a lot of the largely forgotten history of clinical psychedelic use in the 1950's on through today's status quo of the psychedelic research movement as well as the value of the underground.



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