LSDs inventor Albert Hofmann called it "medicine for the soul." The Beatles wrote songs about it. Secret military mind control experiments exploited its hallucinogenic powers. Outlawed in 1966, LSD became a street drug and developed a reputation as the dangerous toy of the counterculture, capable of inspiring either moments of genius, or a descent into madness. Now science is taking a fresh look at LSD, including the first human trials in over 35 years. Using enhanced brain imaging, non-hallucinogenic versions of the drug and information from an underground network of test subjects who suffer from an agonizing condition for which there is no cure, researchers are finding that this "trippy" drug could become the pharmaceutical of the future. Can it enhance our brain power, expand our creativity and cure disease? To find out, Explorer puts LSD under the microscope.
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TrancecoachMy friend & colleague, Jim Fadiman is a featured interviewee in this documentary. His early research set the stage for much of the research being done some 40 years later.
Other colleagues of mine, Alicia Danforth and Charlie Grob, are also featured in this documentary and are part of the exciting new research being done with human subjects for the first time in many decades!
joel_eb/\ but why aren't you featured? this must make you feel left out. ):
TrancecoachNa, it's all good.. I'm pleased to be workin "behind the scenes." ;-)
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shagen454Oh my, this makes me so happy. I love LSD; I took two double dosed tabs once as my first experience and will never forget it. It's definitely nowhere near as scary as the media and public propagates. I took it in my late 20's - the whole time I was thinking about why the $#@% do people lie about this drug as my apartment building opened up like giant drawers and flew by my head like a cuckoo clock.
mkknyrsays...educated white male 18-22 taking LSD.... check.
mkknyrsays...but seriously, this doc is pretty cheesy.
shagen454yeah i watched it after i commented on it; this documentary focuses on the fact that it's a dangerous and illegal drug that could be useful as a medicinal substance without psychedelic effects. Seriously, wtf? I want them to study the actual psychedelic effects and really figure this chemical out so us humans can further develop mind expansion, haha. But, of course the government wouldn't want that - then you'd have a bunch of liberal scum protesting illegal wars and reading books and shit and that would just be real... retarded.
majortom3000exactly what i thougt..
i love acid...
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JAPRwtf it's in french only?
geo321Here's an english version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJrRBWbtJZ0&feature=player_embedded>> ^JAPR:
wtf it's in french only?
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