Magic Medicine
Nov 08 2018
•1h 19m
•Documentary
In 2012 a team of medical researchers asked themselves, "what would happen if we gave psilocybin (magic mushrooms) to people suffering from severe depression"? It took them three years to get the necessary permissions to find out.
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Robin Carhart-Harris
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Rosalind Watts
Self
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