Around 5 years ago, while actively trying to promote my newest book, #My #Life & #Rollercoaster #Career (#Memoir + #Newsletter), on #LinkedIn, I picked up leads to my newly revived interest – #psilocybin, #baeocystin, and #norbaeocystin (#PBN), and reconnected with the #psychedelics movement. I promptly forgot about my new book, as befitting my character of undiagnosed ADHD.
Then, I returned from retirement after over 50 years of a successful career in #natural #products (esp. cosmetics, drug chemicals & Chinese herbs) having isolated PBN from the liquid culture of an Oregon magic mushroom decades earlier in the mid-1960s. During all these decades, no one has succeeded in isolating these important new chemicals (BN). Important because they are the closest #twin/ #sister compounds simultaneously to #serotonin (S, a hormone present throughout our body responsible for many functions such as mood and happiness, possibly also our thought/creative process and generating new nerve cells, or #neuroplasticity). These important issues have never been seriously investigated. Instead, #synthetic #drug-#therapy’s #vicious #cycle (#VC) has dominated in recent decades as the key reason in our search for new drugs. If a drug does not kill us, the more side effects and new diseases it generates, the more new drugs (synthetic and inherently toxic) are needed to perpetuate the VC.
My #PBN #Naturals #Worldwide #Consortium will break this VC at least for some of the #toxic #synthetics (both #drugs & #additives). My experience during the past several years has convinced me to keep on trying. However, the revival of psychedelics over the past decade also reactivated greed in many of my colleagues, making the movement a present-day #gold #rush. Hence, for example, one new company led the charge changing from #nonprofit #to #for-#profit after its owner-couple made use of free advice from honest experts to build the company into a financially attractive entity, when they quietly switched from nonprofit to for-profit and quickly received tens of millions of dollars from unknowing investors or those with questionable ethics. So far, only this company, the biggest that I know, has started with deceit in the present gold-rush. So, my friends and colleagues, beware of the big ones, especially of their ads and promotions, mostly lies!
Because of my work with PBN in graduate school, the founder of a psychedelic company approached me at the time to be one of its cofounders, I agreed when I found out Countess Amanda Feilding was one of them. Then, the company got a couple of $million and we were on our way. What I didn’t count on was its business partner, who promptly took charge of its technical team and started online conferences without notifying me, its technical director. After missing 2 such teleconferences within months, I handed in my resignation. Then, the company went under after it ran out of funds.
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That was not the first time some businessmen #misjudged my #character and #capabilities. A few more such instances followed as described in my memoir (see MLRC). Invariably, it was the business manager in the second or third level of company hierarchy wanting to show the boss/owner how much money he could save for the company if they switched suppliers, due to the general #ignorance in the industry (among both technical & lay) regarding #identity and #quality of herbal products. Most of them have no clue what is in the complex herbal materials. I ended up losing $million yearly incomes. When you look at the #HPTLC #fingerprint posted on #LinkedIn about a month ago, you can see my client’s new (fake) product has only at most 5% of the herbal ingredients compared to the real product that I used to supply. It’s sad for the consumers! No one is looking after their interests. Because he/she does not know how and where to start. Neither our government nor our highly technical institutions.
Now, even though our organization is not nonprofit because government regulations require its engaging lawyers, accountants and having to pay for expenses that I cannot afford because I am no millionaire. I just want our Consortium to make a minimum amount of profit to keep the organization operational and perpetual. None of the 1,000X- or even 100X-over-cost profits most big companies make to support their exaggerations/promotions and their owners’ mansions and yachts. I have grown up in a family that didn’t con people or lie and cheat, as most of current drug companies and their interdependent associates (insurers, advertisers, crooked politicians) do and exploit our most vulnerable fellow Americans.