Michael J Maki
As a child of the 1960’s, I have greatly benefited and spread the gospel of wise use of psychedelics all of my adult life. From student radical to back-to-the-lander, community and conference organizer, organic consultant and advocate, I continue to work for a greener and more just world. My active retirement includes a medicinal mushroom startup in Washington State and ethnobotanical research and development work in the Peruvian Amazon.
Michael Maki is an ethnobotanist, biological agriculture specialist, and mushroom entrepreneur. He was a founding board member of the Pacific Northwest’s regional organic agriculture organization (now approaching its 50th anniversary), and its first regional organic certifier. Co-founder of Full Moon Mushrooms and Mushroom Resources Inc. in the 1980s, he is also now able to claim former careers as a guerrilla cannabis grower and psilocybin producer.
As host and facilitator of psychedelic therapy ceremonies, he has long appreciated and practiced the wise use of these and other substances.
Today, following three years in Federal prison (2013-2016) for production and distribution of psilocybin, he is involved in a fully legal medicinal mushroom R&D startup, MycoDynamics, in Washington State.
Mr. Maki also works in the Peruvian Amazon, as co-founder of the Richard Evans Schultes Center for Amazonian Ethnobotanical Research.