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Magic Medicine

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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Monty Wates

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Now, what psilocybin does is to introduce - Magic Medicine

Now, what psilocybin does is to introduce

- [John] Oh, that's the
reason for the scans, - Magic Medicine

- [John] Oh, that's the reason for the scans,

- [Monty] Tell us whether
you'd have been able - Magic Medicine

- [Monty] Tell us whether you'd have been able

Coming in here, a place in London, - Magic Medicine

Coming in here, a place in London,

It's nice, you're not sitting
thinking about yourself - Magic Medicine

It's nice, you're not sitting thinking about yours...

It's like someone's just come
along, and they've taken away - Magic Medicine

It's like someone's just come along, and they'...

- Today, I just really wanna get it - Magic Medicine

- Today, I just really wanna get it

I don't really have any
hopes or predictions - Magic Medicine

I don't really have any hopes or predictions

Let's just get on with it, really, yeah. - Magic Medicine

Let's just get on with it, really, yeah.

(light orchestra music) - Magic Medicine

(light orchestra music)

- I feel really tired, hungover. - Magic Medicine

- I feel really tired, hungover.

Massively abnormal
feelings forming that I've, - Magic Medicine

Massively abnormal feelings forming that I've,

- [Monty] Do you feel like
it's something that's, - Magic Medicine

- [Monty] Do you feel like it's something that's,

- I kinda wanna work on it, - Magic Medicine

- I kinda wanna work on it,

There was nothing that like linked back - Magic Medicine

There was nothing that like linked back

And it's like it's still
a massive mystery to me. - Magic Medicine

And it's like it's still a massive mystery to me.

- It's no more disappointing
than every other day, - Magic Medicine

- It's no more disappointing than every other day,

I know the first Christmas
I had a red trike, - Magic Medicine

I know the first Christmas I had a red trike,

(soft music) - Magic Medicine

- That's where I used to
sit with Lynn on the stairs - Magic Medicine

- That's where I used to sit with Lynn on the stairs

Going into the treatment, I thought, now, - Magic Medicine

Going into the treatment, I thought, now,

Strangely, I've not even thought much - Magic Medicine

Strangely, I've not even thought much

It's kind of, it's automatically
just sort of drifted back - Magic Medicine

It's kind of, it's automatically just sort of drif...

That's where the damage was done. - Magic Medicine

That's where the damage was done.

- This is probably the
third or fourth time - Magic Medicine

- This is probably the third or fourth time

And all he's ever done is
remembered it with fondness. - Magic Medicine

And all he's ever done is remembered it with fondness.

"This is where I grew
up, and I loved this, - Magic Medicine

"This is where I grew up, and I loved this,

A change has occurred, but it's not, - Magic Medicine

A change has occurred, but it's not,

It's a bit as though I had ingested - Magic Medicine

It's a bit as though I had ingested

It feels of I've got onboard
now my own therapist. - Magic Medicine

It feels of I've got onboard now my own therapist.

- [Yvonne] (mumbles) - Magic Medicine

- [Yvonne] (mumbles)

- Cheers!
- Thank you so much, - Magic Medicine

- Cheers! - Thank you so much,

- I know it's a work in
progress, but you know, - Magic Medicine

- I know it's a work in progress, but you know,

I'm not sure if it's correct or not, - Magic Medicine

I'm not sure if it's correct or not,

But the other thing was
this awful image that I had - Magic Medicine

But the other thing was this awful image that I had

With the smothering,
this awful image that-- - Magic Medicine

With the smothering, this awful image that--

- [Andy] Trying to make sure
they can pull out the memory. - Magic Medicine

- [Andy] Trying to make sure they can pull out the memory.

I could actually see the pillow, - Magic Medicine

I could actually see the pillow,

(opera singer vocalizing) - Magic Medicine

(opera singer vocalizing)

- [Ros] Stay here with us, just let it-- - Magic Medicine

- [Ros] Stay here with us, just let it--

That feeling was real,
then the realization - Magic Medicine

That feeling was real, then the realization

(crying) Really beat up on me that badly? - Magic Medicine

(crying) Really beat up on me that badly?

All I can remember about my dad is good, - Magic Medicine

All I can remember about my dad is good,

'Cause there are lovely
memories of getting up - Magic Medicine

'Cause there are lovely memories of getting up

- Your mind will allow you
to remember those things, - Magic Medicine

- Your mind will allow you to remember those things,

- Anything that is
confusing or conflictual - Magic Medicine

- Anything that is confusing or conflictual

Okay.
- After you, are we all going? - Magic Medicine

Okay. - After you, are we all going?

- Often in a psychedelic dose,
the person will experience - Magic Medicine

- Often in a psychedelic dose, the person will experience

He was stripped of his
defenses as an adult - Magic Medicine

He was stripped of his defenses as an adult

What was real for Andy was his fear, - Magic Medicine

What was real for Andy was his fear,

- I wish that I would be
able to work as his therapist - Magic Medicine

- I wish that I would be able to work as his therapist

I hope that from this
dose, there will also be - Magic Medicine

I hope that from this dose, there will also be

I think for sort of lifelong change, - Magic Medicine

I think for sort of lifelong change,

(soft music) - Magic Medicine

We've really tried to encourage him to try - Magic Medicine

We've really tried to encourage him to try

And so it's a delicate balance really, - Magic Medicine

And so it's a delicate balance really,

You know, I used to to in
the library and try and read - Magic Medicine

You know, I used to to in the library and try and read

Everyone was different, but I felt - Magic Medicine

Everyone was different, but I felt

I went to the doctor's, and he said, - Magic Medicine

I went to the doctor's, and he said,

This is 1984, you're telling
me to go to Amsterdam. - Magic Medicine

This is 1984, you're telling me to go to Amsterdam.

'Cause all I knew about Amsterdam - Magic Medicine

'Cause all I knew about Amsterdam

"Nothing's gonna change,
you're gonna be like this." - Magic Medicine

"Nothing's gonna change, you're gonna be like...

- I grew up was a valley called (mumbles) - Magic Medicine

- I grew up was a valley called (mumbles)

I could take you straight
to the very place. - Magic Medicine

I could take you straight to the very place.

And the thing was it didn't happen - Magic Medicine

And the thing was it didn't happen

Even if you were sleeping,
you would get woken up, - Magic Medicine

Even if you were sleeping, you would get woken up,

That was, I think, being
that I really started having - Magic Medicine

That was, I think, being that I really started having

- [Robin] 'Cause when these
things are experienced, - Magic Medicine

- [Robin] 'Cause when these things are experienced,

And the typical response
is to try and forget them. - Magic Medicine

And the typical response is to try and forget them.

- Yeah, (mumbles) - Magic Medicine

- Yeah, (mumbles)

There's no sense in wanting revenge - Magic Medicine

There's no sense in wanting revenge

- Yeah, it does feel like that - Magic Medicine

- Yeah, it does feel like that

You know, It's like a
just a desire to get up - Magic Medicine

You know, It's like a just a desire to get up

- John, Maggie and that children
are sharing a single room - Magic Medicine

- John, Maggie and that children are sharing a single room

- Yeah. - Magic Medicine

- Thank you. - Magic Medicine

It's got a motion sensor so
it just keeps flying itself - Magic Medicine

It's got a motion sensor so it just keeps flying itself

The main imagery (mumbles) - Magic Medicine

The main imagery (mumbles)

Firstly we come up here they
will not believe us ahead - Magic Medicine

Firstly we come up here they will not believe us ahead

And if he was nice, he
was good for laughing - Magic Medicine

And if he was nice, he was good for laughing

It's just binge having john
here because I've been used to - Magic Medicine

It's just binge having john here because I've been...

- Apparently that if you take
the full month more from me - Magic Medicine

- Apparently that if you take the full month more from me

The reason it works is
because it's about you, - Magic Medicine

The reason it works is because it's about you,

And so what that does is
it it kind of shifts all up - Magic Medicine

And so what that does is it it kind of shifts all up

But the first it felt quite nice. - Magic Medicine

But the first it felt quite nice.

Might an anemia that lasts for
six hours and doesn't stop. - Magic Medicine

Might an anemia that lasts for six hours and doesn't st...

- And that's that's a
danger if you just to say - Magic Medicine

- And that's that's a danger if you just to say

I was lucky that I had Dr. Joe Novotny, - Magic Medicine

I was lucky that I had Dr. Joe Novotny,

But if we did see him, it
wouldn't be for very long - Magic Medicine

But if we did see him, it wouldn't be for very long

And she's managed to spend
time with her husband - Magic Medicine

And she's managed to spend time with her husband

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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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Director: Monty Wates

Writer: Monty Wates

Production: Dartmouth Films

Genre: documentary

Year: 2018

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 7.1

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 26 Nov 2021

Awards: N/A

Homepage: https://magicmedicine.net