Joining the fray is Jon Stewart: comedian and former host of \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d. You may have watched him arguing for cannabis legalisation, back in the day when it was certainly risky to do so. When every other news outlet stoked the coals of fear and claimed that psychedelics were a \u201cgateway drug\u201d (where have we heard that one before??)<\/em>, Stewart used his platform to help educate Mom and Pop viewers at home and make them feel at ease. Psychedelics are more than just for tripping out<\/em>, he would say. There is more than meets the eye\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n And he is absolutely right! <\/p>\n\n\n\n In a recent interview<\/a><\/strong> with Radio Rahim\u2019s \u201cTil This Day\u201d<\/em> podcast, Stewart revealed how he sharpens his wits prior to a gruelling standup set onstage. A week-long binge of magic mushrooms<\/strong>, which he claims has helped him perfect his craft in comedy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou sort of learn about producing something. And I got to the point where I could do [magic] mushrooms for a week and wake up and go onstage, and to the audience, I got to be a good enough craftsman that it could forgive my imperfections to an audience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As proof of how the understanding of shrooms has progressed, podcast host Radio Rahim had no follow-up questions for the comedian. Such an open revelation would have landed the front page of TMZ back then \u2014 or maybe even cost Stewart his job at the network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Not today, however!<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is more to standup comedy, apparently, than simply going up on stage and telling an embarrassing anecdote or two. The most effective standup and hosting gigs require days, even weeks, of preparation to make the entire thing go just right<\/em>. Stewart, a veteran TV host and comedian, knows this all too well. He also knows to time his week-long shroom binges to be totally sober once it\u2019s showtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the topic of perfecting his talk show or a comedy set, Stewart told Radio Rahim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou start to realise there\u2019s a more sophisticated refinery that goes on behind this. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut then you continue to challenge yourself and build a different set of tools. Managing people, <\/em>comedy\u2019s a very solitary form<\/em><\/strong>. But what if you could marshal other resources, and manage them so that we\u2019re all working towards the same goal? And that\u2019s the talk show. And everything has a render time. If I want to make a graphic, if I want to do a [comedy] bit, if I want to shoot it and then edit it, you start to learn all the different subsets of creating your voice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Even though microdosing<\/a><\/strong> as a trend has grown only recently, the idea of it has been floating around since the 1960s. The first person to point out that taking psychedelics \u2014 LSD to be specific \u2014 in very small doses to help treat depression, anxiety, ADHD, or existential boredom was Albert Hofmann: the chemist who discovered<\/a><\/strong> \u201cacid\u201d<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And while he fought for the public acceptance of LSD until his death in 2008, the psychedelic compound would only enjoy a renewed popularity in Silicon Valley years later. What Hofmann had described as his “problem child”<\/em> has become something else entirely. The tech boom of smartphones and social media would leave employees burned out and fresh out of ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The easiest solution for a daily boost in creativity? Microdosing. <\/em>And not just LSD, either; the buffet of favourites had come to include psilocybin<\/a><\/strong> from shrooms and magic truffles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Stewart had expressed a desire to try microdosing psilocybin in the past, but he merely flirted with the possibility. (Hollywood is a high-octane industry<\/em>, after all.) This podcast interview with Radio Rahim is the first time the TV icon has admitted on air to taking magic mushrooms on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year, Jon Stewart had exclaimed on an episode of his podcast, \u201cThe Problem\u201d<\/em>, of his itch to try taking super-low doses of psilocybin on a schedule:<\/p>\n\n\n\nJon Stewart\u2019s Week-Long Binge on Shrooms<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The King of Comedy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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