ASPEN, Colo. (KDVR) A man from Aspen survived a traumatic brain injury and credits an unexpected tool for his quick recovery psychedelic mushrooms.
James Hall, better known as “Jamo,” is advocating for alternative healing and winning national recognition along the way.
Hall was living the dream as someone who loved to ski in Aspen, but on March 24, 2020, his life changed.
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Credit: James “Jamo” Hall
“I went over the handlebars into a tree. I broke C7, T1, AND T-11 vertebrates. And it just snowballed from there,” said Hall.
The crash sent Hall to multiple hospitals before ending up at a top rehab center in Denver.
Doctors predicted six months of inpatient. His discharge was in six weeks.
“Everybody was like, how is this happening? Like you’re on track to make a full recovery. We’ve never seen a pace like this,” Hall said.
Hall had been microdosing psilocybin mushrooms six months prior to the accident.
An alternative therapy, while Hall said it’s not widely discussed in hospitals, he believes it helped his brain recovery.
“The psilocybin created a new, fresh layer of snow that then I could find new paths instead of just in that one path that has been worn in,” said Hall.
After Hall fully recovered, he started growing his own mushrooms, collaborating with North Spore. He even won Denver’s Psychedelic Cup for cultivating one of the most potent strains in the country.
“As far as I know, it is the most potent mushroom on record at the moment,” said Hall.
He’s turning that experience into a new business called “Mountain Made Product,” partnering with North Spore to help others safely grow mushrooms from home.
“Getting, you know, this out to everybody to try and help just more people grow and understand cubensis,” said Hall.
For people curious but unsure, Hall has a message.
“It’s not going to work for everybody, but it was it was very effective for me,” he said.
Hall said his collaboration with North Spore will launch a new line of mushroom substrates this fall.
He went on to say that while suffering from a brain injury, he had to learn to walk and talk again. He said he could understand everything someone said, but couldn’t respond, making it the toughest part of his recovery.
He hopes his story will open future conversations around alternative medicines.
