Could Psychedelic Drugs Save Your Life?
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Psychedelic science is back — and they could help heal people with addictions, PTSD and end-of-life anxiety.
Guests:
Ayelet Waldman,Stephen Ross,Katherine MacLean,Daniel Kasza,William Richards
Interviews:
Ayelet Waldman Talks about Depression, LSD, and Her Marriage With Michael Chabon,How Psychedelic Drugs Will Revolutionize Psychiatry,Lessons from a Psychedelic Guide,On A Mountain Top, With Ayahuasca And Frog Poison,Psychedelics and God,Psychedelics: The Next Revolution in Psychiatry?
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs. Could a psychedelic drug save your life? |
| 0:07.7 | I have a mood disorder, and my medications had stopped working. I was in a profoundly broken, devastated place. |
| 0:18.5 | And then somebody said to me, I heard this story from a friend about a doctor, |
| 0:23.3 | and he's been microdosing for decades, and maybe he has some extra. And I thought, it just |
| 0:28.5 | sounds nuts. Writer, I yell at Waldman. About a week or two later, I opened my mailbox, and there was this package, |
| 0:41.0 | and the return address read Louis Carroll. |
| 0:47.5 | So I opened the package. |
| 0:49.2 | There was this little blue bottle. |
| 0:53.5 | And I looked at it, and I'm not crazy. I don't take things that come in the mail. |
| 1:00.3 | I went and I ordered an LSD testing kit from Amazon. Yes, that's where you get them. |
| 1:07.6 | It turned out to be LSD diluted in distilled water and and so I thought, all right, I'm just gonna trust this. |
| 1:16.6 | I put two drops under my tongue. |
| 1:20.6 | I waited for, you know, my keyboard to burst into psychedelic fireworks. |
| 1:26.6 | Goodness knows from this is... |
| 1:28.3 | That didn't happen. |
| 1:33.3 | But what did happen is that I had a really good day. |
| 1:41.3 | The first in as long as I could remember. It was like this dark, heavy weight, |
| 1:48.2 | just lifted off my shoulders. When I would ask, like, the most sort of stonery people, like, |
| 1:56.4 | if they could get me some LSD, they would always say, when you're ready for the mother, she will come |
| 2:01.8 | to you. And I would like roll my eyes and move on. And when I tell people this story, they're like, |
| 2:06.5 | well, the mother came to you because you were ready. I yell at Waldman tried microdosing with LSD |
| 2:13.8 | for one month. Her experiment is over. She's not planning on breaking the law again, |
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