Can magic mushrooms cure depression?
The film’s website says:
“Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression.
His remarkable film follows three of the volunteers and their families, and the ambitious staff running the trial, who are hoping this controversial treatment will have the power to transform millions of lives.
With deeply moving footage of the ‘trips’ the patients go on, this intimate film is an absorbing portrait of the human cost of depression, and the inspirational people contributing to groundbreaking psychedelic research …”
You can find out more (and watch the film’s official trailer) here.
And here – as featured in the film – you can also find out about the recent launch, by Imperial College London, of the world’s first Centre for Psychedelics Research.
