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Ronan Levy, Founder of Field Trip Ventures sits down with The Green Rush this week as the team looks to cover something a little different: psychedelics.

Field Trip Ventures is a first-of-its-kind venture that is blending operational execution with strategic investing across all aspects of the psychedelics supply chain.  From basic research on botanical psychedelics like psilocybin, to the operation of world-class clinics focused on psychedelic-assisted therapies (for example, using MDMA to treat PTSD), Ronan and his team are on the front lines of the “next cannabis.”

The Green Rush will chat with Ronan about his cannabis roots including his time as an executive with Aurora Cannabis, the re-emergence of psychedelic-based therapies, how psychedelics could follow the same “playbook” as cannabis as it looks to move towards legalization and busting common myths and misinformation around its addictiveness and dangers.

Don’t sit back, lean forward and enjoy!

Ronan Levy – Founder, Field Trip Ventures

A lawyer by training, Ronan presently serves as a founder of Field Trip Ventures, Grassfed Ventures and is on the Board of Directors of Province Brands and Proof & Concept Inc. , He is also the founder of Toronto Gold , Toronto’s most respected precious metal broker and principal at TDF Advisory Law Professional Corporation. Ronan started his career as a corporate lawyer at Blake, Cassels Graydon LLP and Legal Counsel at CTVglobemedia Inc. (now Bell Media Inc.) He holds a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Commerce degree, both from the University of Toronto. 

Links and mentions in the show

• https://fieldtrip.ventures/
• https://maps.org/
• Michael Pollan’s Book “How to Change Your Mind” 
• Research: Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences
• Research: Drugs & Mysticism: An Analysis of the Relationship between Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Consciousness
• Research: A default mode of brain function

Links to the guest’s company and social media accounts

• Ronan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronanlevy/?originalSubdomain=ca
• Ronan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/RonanDLevy 

Show Credits:

This episode was hosted by Lewis Goldberg and Anne Donohoe of KCSA Strategic Communications.

Special thanks to our Executive Producer Nick Opich Program Director Shea Gunther at Marijuana Today

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