Psychedelic_Science_by_Bill_Eagles_BBC1997-SweSubb

Psychedelic Science By Bill Eagles ------------------- Psychedelic Science was broadcast on [programme notes] 27th February 1997. -------------------------------------------------- Programme Notes [Image] In the late 1960s, human experiments with psychedelic drugs were brought to a halt. Government reacted to the anarchy of the hippy counter-culture. The drug-crazed Charles Manson slayings came to symbolise public fear of the street use of LSD. Funding ceased, and the few researchers who battled on were ostracised. But lost in the blanket ban were remarkable research projects in the field of psychiatry that held out new hope for the treatment of schizophrenia and alcoholism. Bill Eagles' extraordinary film tells the story of a handful of dedicated scientists who have struggled to make psychedelic research respectable again. In the USA, psychiatrists Rick Strassman and Charles Grob, and neuroscientist Deborah Mash each quietly began investigations with unknown psychedelic compounds, to avoid the alarm bells of LSD. Strassman pursued the Federal Drug Administration for permission to do safety trials of DMT. Mash works on treating cocaine addicts, achieving success with Ibogaine, a psychedelic derived from a West African plant. Their success hinges on the patient having a 'peak' experience, entering the realm of the mystical or religious. The early researchers had spotted this. Now it was dramatically reinforced by unique new evidence from Brazil. Unable to work in the USA, Grob visited Brazil to track down the ritual use of Ayahuasca, a leaf rich in the powerful DMT. For centuries it has been used amongst the shamans of the Amazon. But today, in urban Brazil, tens of thousands of men, women and children are taking the drug as part of an ecstatic Christian cult experience. The Brazillian Government asked Grob to look at long-term damaging effects of the drug. Instead, he found no evidence of toxicity or brain damage, and also that long-term users functioned better in their community. In 1992 Brazil legalised ritual use of Ayahuasca. The FDA took careful note. Then in the early 1990s, leading lights of the US computer industry began admitting that many breakthroughs in Silicon Valley in the 70s and 80s had been inspired by regular psychedelic drug use. Nobel Prizewinner Kary Mullis, and founding father of Microsoft, Bob Wallace, reveal on camera the psychedelic influence on their creativity. This anecdotal evidence raised support for the psychedelic researchers. Now Strassman has received approval from the FDA for research into LSD itself. But it is a delicate moment for the new psychedelic science. Its power to treat some of the worst ailments of society has now been recognised. Yet fears of the excesses of the 1960s are still strong. In Japan the Aum Shinrikyo cult is believed to have used psychedelics to brainwash its members before the Tokyo subway gas attack. Among high-school leavers, use of psychedelics is rapidly increasing - and strange new drugs are appearing on thestreets. The scientists and drug regulators know there is a knife-edge between hope for new treatments and unleashing a whirlwind.

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zavage (2004-05-05)

danke danke

bigdog (2004-05-05)

Supertack för denna UL!
Nu blir det en lång väntan innan programmet är på plats på HDn...
Gärna mer sådana här dokumentärer. :D

egolost (2004-05-05)

Hoppas ni klarar er trots dålig kvalitet. Det var en vän till mig som gav mig ett gammalt videoband som jag rippade. Men då det inte är en actiongrafikspäckad hollywoodrulle utan en intressant dokumentär tror jag att det inte kommer att irritera allt för många att den VHS flimrar en del.

MonsterCow (2004-08-23)

Åh det skulle vara jätte snällt om någon kunde seeda lite igen! Tack :)

Bitz (2004-10-21)

Please read this please before experimenting on your own:

StayPuft (2004-10-31)

Åååååhh, vill ha!! :D
men det finns inget frö... :(
Snälla seeda!!

oi_or_io (2004-11-09)

seed plz :'(

magiker (2004-12-13)

Den här vill jag se. Hoppas det finns någon vänlig själ där ute som vill seeda!

poker4money (2004-12-15)

seeda kom igen nu e på 90% snällllllllllaaa nån?

orgpunk (2005-03-10)

USA, tillsammans med norska staten, utförde experiment med droger på så kallade "tyskebarn" (barn till tyska soldater som varit stationerade i Norge). Runt hälften dog.

DirtyBone (2005-04-11)

Nån som kan seeda???

CultureofGreed (2008-03-23)

Can I get this without the subtitles? So many great images that are unusable because of the damn subtitles.