Willy Myco and Philly Golden Trainer have racked up a good quantity of notoriety within the psychedelic group for his or her instructional movies geared towards educating would-be trippers develop and synthesize their very own psychedelics.
This issues to you, pricey reader and presumed drug fanatic, as a result of rising shrooms is absolutely rattling onerous. Most individuals can determine develop an oz. or two utilizing Google (or Excessive Instances articles) however a majority of individuals discover it far too difficult at first look and most processes concerned with psychedelic manufacturing are a lot simpler to know with visible aids. Being because it had been that lots of people would like to devour their medication with out participating in some sweaty, parking zone trade with a dude named Indigo, lots of of us can be shit out of luck if it weren’t for folks like Willy and Philly.
These guys are actually placing their cash the place their mouths are within the sense of taking huge authorized and private dangers to advance the science of psychedelic manufacturing and educating the lots on safely replicate the processes for themselves. They each disguise their identities in numerous methods. Willy wears a face masks in his movies and PGT has but to indicate his face or reveal what his voice appears like. Their channels and messages usually are not related to each other however they’ve every amassed a formidable following and every contributed essential details about psychedelics on to the individuals who want it.
Excessive Instances caught up with Willy and Philly each collectively and individually to speak store about psychedelic tradition and their efforts to protect, promote and advance it.
Willy Myco
Willy is, I shit you not, a Harvard graduate with levels and {qualifications} out the wazoo who walked away from a quarter-million greenback wage at a big-name pharmaceutical firm to make his instructional YouTube and Patreon movies. The movies span from DIY shroom rising strategies to how LSD is synthesized and extra. He now pays his payments nearly completely by way of YouTube and Patreon, because of his organically grown group which he refers to because the “journey staff household” or TTF.
“I ain’t shit with out you guys,” Willy mentioned. “With out that group behind me, supporting me and being there for me, then I wouldn’t be capable to do it.”
The TTF is tough to quantify however in line with Willy it ranges wherever from 70 to 120,000 folks. They’ve a personal Discord server that’s genuinely a optimistic place to discover with tremendous pleasant folks, all of whom are stoked to assist different budding mycologists and psychedelic lovers on their particular person journeys.
Not solely that, however these cats throw one hell of a celebration by the sound of issues. Willy places on this huge occasion yearly referred to as “Journey-A-Ween” the place they principally fry balls on world-class psychedelics and do enjoyable shit like lease out a whole amusement park or dwell giant in Costa Rica for per week. They spare no expense and discuss it prefer it’s an enormous household reunion.
As a Patreon supporter and member of the TTF discord, I received’t reveal a lot of what I’ve seen in there for apparent causes however I’ll observe that proper earlier than I began writing this text, an enormous member of the TTF group who goes by the alias Watr was arrested and had their youngsters taken away from them for allegedly distributing psychedelics. Within per week, Willy had a sweatshirt made up and began an in-house fundraiser to lift cash and produce Watr again house to his children. Willy has additionally personally given hundreds of {dollars} out of his personal pocket to finance medical therapy for some supporters of his who wanted assist.
Willy is at the moment within the course of of shopping for a home in Puerto Rico the place he might be organising a hashish develop to offer employment for the folks dwelling there, to not point out internet hosting a podcast, possible throwing extra shroom events and offering mycology/hashish cultivation courses to impoverished Puerto Ricans. Willy instructed Excessive Instances his final aim is to protect the legacy of the individuals who got here earlier than him.
“I need to see folks be capable to help their households and construct their empires off of psychedelics, I need to have the ability to see folks flourish and do effectively—the folks that truly deserve it, and are doing it for the suitable causes,” Willy mentioned. “I don’t need that tradition to be gone. I don’t need it simply to grow to be a machine like hashish has grow to be. It’s an business now. It’s an enormous factor. Earlier than, when it was underground, it was in regards to the members of the group and the individuals who truly put within the work to protect it. After which as soon as it grew to become an business, it simply grew to become about cash. It was now not about group.”
Philly Golden Trainer
Philly is a little more elusive than Willy however his movies are very detailed and dive deep into the artwork of shroom rising. Whereas Willy’s movies embody all psychedelics, Philly strictly focuses on mycology and mushroom cultivation. He’s a prolifically paranoid man (for VERY good purpose) who used a voice modulator when chatting with Excessive Instances.
“I’m scared. I’m scared to place myself on the market,” Philly mentioned. “That worry actually places me into anxiousness mode.”
Philly didn’t inform me many specifics about himself apart from he tries to mix into society as a lot as attainable to keep away from detection. He works a 9-5 at a name heart and spends his off-time engaged on superior mycology tasks, certainly one of which is trying to crossbreed psychedelic mushrooms to make a brand new “pressure.” Pressure is in quotes as a result of it’s even much less correct when used to confer with mushrooms than the way it’s generally used for hashish however for our functions, pressure is okay.
“It’s a must to perceive crossbreeding is much more advanced than placing two completely different mycelium collectively on a plate and having them go ‘right here, kiss.’ It’s a must to isolate a single spore to have the ability to do it at a microscopic stage. It’s onerous to try this; it’s onerous to confirm that with out a microscope so folks don’t get into crossbreeding until you may afford a microscope to place the work behind to do it,” Philly mentioned.
The factor with mushroom rising is that very like hashish, a good quantity of the legwork on determining do it correctly is pioneered by guys like Philly, who lives in fixed worry of federal police raids at worst and dropping his YouTube account at greatest.
“I’ve to actually watch out what I put out on there,” Philly mentioned. “I’m making an attempt to steer issues forwards, simply making an attempt to to drive issues to Patreon as a result of I can’t actually depend on YouTube.”
Philly instructed Excessive Instances he’s notably enthusiastic about mushroom lineage playing cards he and his spouse have been engaged on with details about the breeders and historical past behind the completely different “strains” of psychedelic mushrooms.
“We principally went full Pokemon,” Philly mentioned.
Each PGT and Willy expressed parallel views to Excessive Instances on how psychedelics ought to be used or checked out going ahead. They each hammered house two distinct factors a number of instances over:
- Psychedelics can be utilized as medication however ought to extra so be checked out as instruments.
- Decriminalization as an alternative of legalization.
“I’m extra snug with decriminalization than legalization,” Willy mentioned. “I don’t assume folks ought to go to jail or be charged for cultivating their very own medication, whether or not that’s mushrooms or extracting DMT or cultivating hashish, regardless of the case could also be. Folks ought to be capable to do it freely. However, legalization brings a complete nother slew of issues: oversaturation, stepping on the toes of all of the cultivators which were doing this for a very long time. You may have firms which have thousands and thousands of {dollars} of backing and also you simply can’t compete with that.”