Ian Benouis is a graduate of the prestigious West Point Military Academy who flew Blackhawk Helicopters for the US Army. After leaving the military, Ian worked as a sales representative in the pharmaceutical industry. Eventually, he bumped up against the limitations of what the Western medical model had to offer. This episode discusses working with plant medicines for trauma, reframing the discussion of psychedelics/entheogens as medicinal, the history of how psychedelics were socially constructed in the US and more…