Drugs on the Joe Rogan Experience
8 fact-checked claims across 6 episodes · Jan 2018 to Nov 2024 · updated Jul 12, 2026
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- Dr. Phil (3)
- Joe Rogan (2)
- Brian Muraresku (1)
- Dr. Carl Hart (1)
- Ben Greenfield (1)
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“he claimed in 1976, it was five to ten times more potent than psilocybin”
Muraresku claims Albert Hofmann self-experimented with ergonovine (an ergot alkaloid) and found it five to ten times more potent than psilocybin.
“for you to relax like a little sniff of heroin is a relaxing thing. Oh, it's heaven. I mean, I'm chilled. It's great.”
Hart states that occasionally snorting heroin recreationally is gentler on his body than alcohol and helps him relax and be a better, more forgiving person.
“That poisoning, fentanyl poisoning, is the number one cause of death for people 18 to 49 in this country.”
Dr. Phil claims fentanyl poisoning is the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 49.
“all these pills you're buying on Snapchat, 100% of them are counterfeit.”
Dr. Phil claims that 100% of pills purchased through Snapchat are counterfeit.
“Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin, 100 times stronger than morphine.”
Dr. Phil states fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.
“the guy's a professor at at Columbia he said that there's two drugs that will kill you when you get off of them he goes it's alcohol and benzodiazepine”
Rogan claims that Dr. Carl Hart, a Columbia professor, says alcohol and benzodiazepines are the only two drugs whose withdrawal can be fatal.
“We googled it like one year. There was like 39 million prescriptions for Adderall in this country.”
Rogan claims there were about 39 million Adderall prescriptions in the US in a single year.
“you're getting exactly 10 micrograms of LSD and about 10 to 20 micrograms, like one to two dropper bottles full, that would be considered a micro dose for most…”
Greenfield states a specific microgram dosage (10-20 micrograms) that constitutes a standard LSD microdose for most people.