Ground Game

Lt. Diane Goldstein: How Law Enforcement is Rethinking Psychedelics

Retired police lieutenant and Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) Executive Director Diane Goldstein joins Sam Chapman to discuss drug policy reform, the role of psychedelics in addressing law enforcement trauma, and LEAP's advocacy for psychedelic access and mental health support. The conversation also covers the fiscal case for legal psychedelic access and the broader psychological and societal costs of current drug policy. As always, feel free to reach out to Sam with any feedback, comments, or ideas for future episodes at sam@cppolicy.org [sam@cppolicy.org].

Dr. Adie Rae: Inside Oregon's First Federally Funded Psilocybin Study

To launch Ground Game, Sam Chapman speaks with Dr. Adie Rae, co-director of the Open Psychedelic Evaluation Nexus, the team at the center of a historic $3.3 million NIDA grant to track outcomes in Oregon's legal psilocybin program. The conversation covers what Oregon's program has already revealed about safety and efficacy, why real-world data matters, the economic realities of building psilocybin research infrastructure from the ground up, and what this federal investment signals for the future of psychedelic access nationwide.