Aaron Rodgers To Speak At Upcoming Psychedelics Convention In Denver

By CBS Denver Staff:

NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers is joining more than 300 speakers who will be participating in a Denver convention about psychedelics. It takes place in June at the Colorado Convention Center and is called Psychedelic Science. On its website, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies calls their event the "largest psychedelic gathering in history" and the "definitive event of the psychedelic renaissance."

Rodgers is open about his use of and intrigue with psychedelic drugs. The 39-year-old went on a podcast over the weekend to talk about his plan to do a four-day "darkness retreat" this month which will include "'sensory deprivation isolation' that will simulate the drug DMT with the potential for hallucinations," CBS Sports reported. Last summer he said the Ayahuasca plant, a psychedelic, helped him perform at an elite level for the Green Bay Packers in the 2020 and 2021 football seasons. Rodgers won the league MVP award both of those years. Rodgers said he has also experimented with psychedelic mushrooms.

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