Bryan Hubbard, the Republican Party’s unlikely psychedelic evangelist, becomes even more animated when I ask him about his experiences of tripping — despite being forced to repeatedly witness his own passing during a high-dose psilocybin mushroom trip a few years ago.
“Whenever death would come, I was always in a hospital, all these tubes coming out of me, all my family gathered around my bed, crying and shaking their heads,” he says, sitting beside me on a sofa in a Shoreditch hotel lobby bar.
