Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris - Psychedelics as Medicine

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🗓️ 28 February 2013

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris of Imperial College London talks about the effects of Psilocybin & MDMA and how they could be used to help with depression and addiction, his controversial colleague Professor David Nutt who claimed Cannabis & Ecstasy were safer & less addictive than Alcohol & Tobacco, and why he refrains from sampling psychedelics in order to remain objective about his research.

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0:00.0	What's up y'all? It's Brian Rose from London Reel. We're here in
0:03.4	Hawkston Square in Historic Shortage, London.
0:06.7	We've just dropped the Jake Wood episode, which is the guy who was a veteran from
0:11.4	Afghanistan.
0:12.6	He wrote the book called Among You,
0:14.3	and he suffers from what it seems to be an extreme case of PTSD.
0:18.1	He came on the show for two hours and poured his heart out.
0:20.9	It was one of my most intense times in the studio.
0:24.0	Everyone's enjoyed the episode.
0:25.2	We got veterans retweating it and saying it really spoke to them a lot.
0:28.8	So please check that out on iTunes or YouTube if you haven't. This week we have Dr Robin Carhart Harris.
0:35.6	This guy is doing research at Imperial College London here on MDMA and
0:40.2	silicibin and how it can affect the brain to perhaps one day combat depression and other
0:46.6	what he calls rigid patterns of thinking and what I really like about
0:50.8	Robin and he's not necessarily a proponent of
0:53.5	psychedelics like I am you know he's a very objective scientist and he actually
0:57.9	talks about what really goes on in the brain and I think this is important
1:01.6	because so often with people that promote psychedelics
1:04.8	there's a lot of anecdotal evidence like I saw aliens or someone's head turned
1:10.6	into a turtle and I think it alienates people that don't know much
1:13.8	about these substances that know they can actually be very good at deflating the ego and
1:18.4	increasing empathy so I'm really happy there's someone like Robin out there
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