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Kevin Bourke: The Psilocybin Mushroom Industry in Jamaica

Season 3

Kevin Bourke is one of the leading pioneers in the legal psilocybin mushroom industry globally. As the Co-Founder of Rose Hill Life Sciences and Patoo, Kevin sits at the vanguard of the world's first legal psilocybin mushroom industry. We learn about the mushroom culture on the island, the indigenous groups of Jamaica, the outsized influence the island nation has across the Caribbean and globally, and how the industry has evolved and matured since it's launch a few years ago.


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