Psychedelics on the Joe Rogan Experience
6 fact-checked claims across 4 episodes · Nov 2019 to Jan 2026 · updated Jul 11, 2026
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- Paul Stamets (3)
- Dr. Mark Gordon (1)
- Joe Rogan (1)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1)
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“And one with one session is in the 80 percent range. With two sessions, it's somewhere around 97 percent, which is just crazy. 93 to 97 percent. It's phenomena…”
Dr. Gordon claims ibogaine treatment has roughly 80 percent success with one session and 93 to 97 percent with two, and that Texas HB 1802 in 2022 was the first state-funded psychedelic research bill.
“And they are doing a lot of great work with that with MDMA too MDMA for soldiers and so they're running these trials and these studies with MDMA and soldiers t…”
Joe Rogan says MAPS is running clinical trials and studies using MDMA to treat soldiers and is finding great results.
“I decided that even though it had a history of potentially of killing this child, I think that's a false positive. I think it was bad science. I couldn't find …”
Stamets describes dismissing a documented child fatality linked to baeocystin as 'bad science' before self-administering the compound in an uncontrolled N-of-1 experiment.
“For the longest time, that was a left-wing perspective, legalize marijuana, legalize psychedelics. You didn't hear about it from former Republican governors li…”
Kennedy characterizes psychedelic and marijuana legalization historically as an exclusively left-wing cause before Rick Perry's involvement.
“Fifteen patients, small clinical studies, statistically significant. Ten out of 15 people, after one or two heroic doses of psilocybin, 12 months later had not…”
Stamets claims a Johns Hopkins study found 10 of 15 smokers quit after one or two high doses of psilocybin and stayed smoke-free 12 months later.
“you add 100 to 200 milligrams of niacin. Now, if someone tries to get high by taking 10 times as much, they'll have like two grams of niacin. This is flushing …”
Stamets claims stacking niacin with microdosed psilocybin mushrooms acts as a built-in 'antabuse' deterrent against taking higher, intoxicating doses.