#2- Madison Margolin - Making the Mainstream a Little Bit More Psychedelic

MIND THINGS

English - November 08, 2020 21:20 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Madison Margolin is the co-founder and managing editor of DoubleBlind, a biannual print magazine and digital media company at the forefront of the rapidly growing psychedelic movement.

Also a Los Angeles/New York-based journalist, Margolin covers psychedelics, cannabis, drug policy, and spirituality. She’s written for Playboy Magazine, Rolling Stone, Nylon, VICE, LA Weekly, High Times, Tablet, and others.

A graduate of Columbia Journalism School and UC Berkeley, Margolin has traveled everywhere from pot farms in the Emerald Triangle to the shores of the Ganges River, and all over Israel-Palestine, exploring the role of plant medicine in religion, mental health, and conflict resolution.

She got her start in journalism with a column on cannabis at the Village Voice, after having lived in south Tel Aviv working with Eritrean refugees.

With more than 4 years of experience covering cannabis and other drugs, Madison has spoken on topics like social equity, cannabis feminism, cannabis journalism, and so forth at conferences like Digital Hollywood, the Association of Alternative New Media, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, The Rind's Women in Cannabis, Pepperdine's Cannabis Law Symposium, and more.

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SHOW NOTES

1:50 - What is DoubleBlind?

4:35 - Surprising parts of starting a psychedelic media business

7:06 - Giving back to indigenous communities and conscious capitalism

9:37 - Psychedelics, the Drug War and the Decrim Movement

17:46 - The role of DoubleBlind in the movement

19:53 - Not wanting psychedelics to become mainstream

22:28 - Dr. Bronner's as an example of conscious capitalism

23:59 - Growing up in the weed scene and having parents who are Jewish Psychedelic Hippies

26:56 - How Madison decided to become a psychedelic journalist

30:49 - Living in Tel Aviv, and the psychedelic culture in Israel / Palestine