Without patient s knowledge fear over ramp and drug use and the spread of the counterculture movement. not to mention harvard professor timothy liri, urging people to turn on, tune in and drop out lead to a clamp down. this nation faces a major crisis in terms of the increasing use of drugs, particularly among our young people. in 1970, president richard nixon sayyed the controlled substances act nearly all scientific research in the us into the effects of psychedelics on people stopped. it wasn t until 2000. it s scientists, roland griffiths, one fda approval to study psilocybin this whole area of research has been in the deep freeze for 25 or 30 years. and so as a scientist, sometimes i feel like rip van winkle. once you saw results, yeah, that red lights start flashing. this is extraordinarily interesting. it s unprecedented and the capacity of the human organism to change. it just was astounding.
Remembered, came back to you. i felt a lot of shame and embarrassment throughout one of the sessions about my drinking and how bad i felt for my parents to put up with all this. he took psilocybin in 2016. he says he hasn t had a drink since do you ever have a day where you wake up? i ve been and i wish i could have a vodka right now or beer. never. not at all. not at all. which is the craziest thing because that was my favorite thing to do. i want you to my back but the eye shadow on headphones and let the music qarrah, you now using psychedelic drugs and therapy is not new. there were hundreds of scientific studies done on a similar compound, lsd in the 1950s and 60s who was tested on more than 40,000 people some and controlled therapeutic settings like this one. but there were also abuses. the us military and cia experimented with lsd sometimes
it sounds like you are endorsing this for everybody. yeah. let s be really clear on that. we re very aware of the risks and would not recommend that people simply go out and do this griffiths and johnson screen out people with psychotic disorders or with close relatives who have had schizophrenia or bipolar disorder study volunteers at johns hopkins are given weeks of intensive counseling before and after the six-hour psilocybin experience. the psilocybin is given in a carefully controlled setting 123 times. to date, they say there s not been a single serious adverse outcome. so i m going to tuck you in. we were told we couldn t recall poured anyone participating in the study while they were on psilocybin because it might impact their experience. but we were shown how it begins without the psilocybin questions you lay on a couch with a blindfold to shut out distractions, but the
yeah. maybe the ego is one character among many in your mind and you don t necessarily have to listen to that voice that s chattering at you and criticizing you and tell you what to do. and that s very freeing it was certainly freeing for carrie pappas over cancer has now spread to her brain. her crippling anxiety about death he s gone. yeah. it s amazing i mean, i feel like death doesn t frighten me. living doesn t frighten me. i don t frighten me. this frightens me, but this interview for death doesn t know it turns out most of the 51 cancer patients and the johns hopkins study experienced significant decreases and depressed mood and anxiety after trying psilocybin. two thirds of them rated their psilocybin sessions as among the most meaningful experiences of their lives we re some, it was on par with the birth of their children to this day. it evolves in me.
Experience, who s going to have a transcendent experts, our ability to predict that is almost non-adult than about a third will at are at a high dose, say that they have something like that. what folks would call a bad trip. but most of those folks will actually say that that was key to the experience korean mcloughlin was a smoker for 46 years and said she tried everything to quit before being given psilocybin at johns hopkins last year sayyed itself is non addictive. do you remember what specifically what you were seeing or the ceiling of this room? we re clouds like heavy rain clouds and gradually they were lowering and i thought i was going to suffer from the clouds that was more than a year ago. she says she hasn t smoked since the study she took part in is still ongoing, but in an earlier small study of just 15 long-term smokers, 80% had quit six months after taking psilocybin.