The other cancer patientsin the study also felt their anxiety fall. Six months later,...

[narrator] The other cancer patients
in the study also felt their anxiety fall. Six months later, most of them were still
holding on to that sense of peace. All from taking just one pill. There have only been
a few studies like this and sample sizes have been small. But the early results
are pretty extraordinary. In one study,
a couple of psychedelic doses were enough to help two-thirds of smokers
quit for at least a year. That's the most effective
smoking cessation treatment ever studied. And In a study of 19 people
with persistent depression who weren't helped
by typical treatments, all of them felt at least some relief
after taking psilocybin. How can a brief encounter
with a psychedelic drug have dramatic and varied effects? And what does that tell us
about the mind? [man 1] A real acid trip is, like,
beyond pleasure, beyond pain