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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:24,774 --> 00:00:26,401 I'm Dr. Walt Miner. 2 00:00:26,484 --> 00:00:28,319 I'm here to talk about LSD. 3 00:00:32,407 --> 00:00:35,744 We have never given LSD to a living creature 4 00:00:35,827 --> 00:00:37,787 that it hasn't affected. 5 00:00:37,871 --> 00:00:40,248 It affects fish, it affects spiders, 6 00:00:40,331 --> 00:00:42,834 it affects rabbits, and dogs, and cats. 7 00:00:43,793 --> 00:00:47,630 Perhaps most interesting of all, for one reason or another, 8 00:00:47,714 --> 00:00:49,758 LSD was given to an elephant once. 9 00:00:50,884 --> 00:00:53,219 And, lo and behold, it killed the elephant. 10 00:00:53,303 --> 00:00:56,598 Some people have a bad experience the first time they take the drug. 11 00:00:56,681 --> 00:01:00,560 Others take it 30, 60, or even a hundred times, 12 00:01:00,643 --> 00:01:02,228 before their bad trip. 13 00:01:02,312 --> 00:01:03,563 And the bad trip? 14 00:01:03,646 --> 00:01:05,190 Instant insanity. 15 00:01:05,273 --> 00:01:08,026 Often a never-never land of no return. 16 00:01:08,109 --> 00:01:11,362 There is nothing, um... grown-up or sophisticated 17 00:01:11,446 --> 00:01:13,823 in taking an LSD trip at all. 18 00:01:13,907 --> 00:01:15,992 They're just being complete fools. 19 00:01:16,409 --> 00:01:18,953 It is playing Russian roulette. 20 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:31,508 Drug use in educational films has always been portrayed 21 00:01:31,591 --> 00:01:34,344 in a somewhat exaggerated and hysterical way. 22 00:01:34,427 --> 00:01:36,346 Parents panicking, 23 00:01:36,429 --> 00:01:40,391 children having freak-outs, and people jumping out of windows. 24 00:01:48,733 --> 00:01:51,486 Don't get me wrong, drugs can be dangerous, 25 00:01:51,569 --> 00:01:54,030 but they can also be hilarious. 26 00:01:54,405 --> 00:01:56,574 Now, what kind of person would put themselves 27 00:01:56,658 --> 00:01:59,202 through something dangerous and hilarious? 28 00:01:59,702 --> 00:02:01,121 If nothing else, 29 00:02:01,204 --> 00:02:04,374 my hope is that tonight's film will answer that question. 30 00:02:05,125 --> 00:02:06,125 Enjoy. 31 00:02:07,710 --> 00:02:11,089 I don't think psychedelics are the answer to the world's problems, 32 00:02:11,172 --> 00:02:12,507 but they could be a start. 33 00:02:12,590 --> 00:02:14,050 All geniuses did it. 34 00:02:14,134 --> 00:02:18,471 Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, A$AP fuckin' Rocky. 35 00:02:18,555 --> 00:02:22,559 And I just always had this question, "There's gotta be more..." 36 00:02:22,642 --> 00:02:26,938 And then when I took acid, I went, "Oh, you were right. There's a lot more." 37 00:02:27,021 --> 00:02:29,649 My point of view changed on drugs. 38 00:02:29,732 --> 00:02:33,695 We gained a lot of insight about the way I view reality. 39 00:02:33,778 --> 00:02:36,739 I've easily done over a hundred hits... 40 00:02:37,198 --> 00:02:39,242 easily, and probably closer to two. 41 00:02:39,325 --> 00:02:42,704 - Doesn't eight make you legally insane? - They say that... 42 00:02:42,787 --> 00:02:46,499 I think I've done mushrooms, like, 12 times... 43 00:02:46,583 --> 00:02:49,294 I probably did mushrooms... 12 times. 44 00:02:49,377 --> 00:02:50,670 Literally 50 times. 45 00:02:50,753 --> 00:02:52,755 I took a lot of acid. 46 00:02:52,839 --> 00:02:53,755 A lot of acid. 47 00:02:53,756 --> 00:02:56,886 I took a lot of acid. I must've taken around 500 trips. 48 00:02:56,968 --> 00:02:58,845 I took acid once. 49 00:03:01,306 --> 00:03:04,642 Maybe even didn't need to actually take it. 50 00:03:04,726 --> 00:03:06,853 Probably could've just watched this documentary. 51 00:03:06,936 --> 00:03:08,521 Is everybody in? 52 00:03:08,605 --> 00:03:11,065 The movie is about to begin. 53 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,137 ♪ There will be some happy endings ♪ 54 00:03:44,015 --> 00:03:46,726 ♪ There'll be dreams That don't come true ♪ 55 00:03:50,063 --> 00:03:52,315 ♪ But in the times ahead ♪ 56 00:03:52,398 --> 00:03:56,027 ♪ There's love and hate And hope and dread coming ♪ 57 00:03:56,402 --> 00:03:57,737 ♪ All in all ♪ 58 00:03:58,696 --> 00:04:01,866 ♪ It makes it that much harder For you, yeah ♪ 59 00:04:02,659 --> 00:04:05,578 ♪ I know you're worried ♪ 60 00:04:08,790 --> 00:04:11,793 ♪ I'm worried too ♪ 61 00:04:15,088 --> 00:04:17,757 ♪ But if you're ready ♪ 62 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,388 ♪ I'm here to fall with you ♪ 63 00:04:27,392 --> 00:04:30,186 ♪ What else is there for us to do? ♪ 64 00:04:48,037 --> 00:04:52,709 Psychotropic drugs fall under a huge, broad category. 65 00:04:52,792 --> 00:04:57,088 What I experimented with were hallucinogens. 66 00:04:57,672 --> 00:05:03,428 And they put you in a state of consciousness which is very altered, 67 00:05:03,886 --> 00:05:06,973 where your perception, your cognition, 68 00:05:07,473 --> 00:05:11,185 your, uh... knowing is very different. 69 00:05:11,894 --> 00:05:15,773 Uh... Initially, it feels like it's not real, 70 00:05:15,857 --> 00:05:19,110 but then when you come out of it, you wonder what is real. 71 00:05:20,069 --> 00:05:25,408 Um, I wouldn't like this to be an exercise in the sort of "just say no" campaign, 72 00:05:25,491 --> 00:05:28,494 you know... ...putting people off this experience, 73 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:31,706 because I think it's a valuable experience. 74 00:05:32,165 --> 00:05:34,625 And whenever I've had a bad trip, 75 00:05:34,709 --> 00:05:36,419 and I've had many, 76 00:05:37,003 --> 00:05:41,466 I always realize that, um... it was what I needed. 77 00:05:41,841 --> 00:05:43,718 Um... 78 00:05:43,801 --> 00:05:45,511 sometimes it kicks your arse, 79 00:05:45,595 --> 00:05:49,474 and sometimes you need to have your ego taken down... 80 00:05:49,891 --> 00:05:50,892 a notch or two. 81 00:05:50,975 --> 00:05:52,226 On the other hand, 82 00:05:52,310 --> 00:05:55,480 you can get immensely rewarding experiences, 83 00:05:56,272 --> 00:05:58,900 full of love and support, 84 00:05:58,983 --> 00:06:00,735 and a sense of buoyancy, 85 00:06:00,818 --> 00:06:04,614 and a sense of... a religious sense of connection to the planet. 86 00:06:05,198 --> 00:06:09,202 So my feeling is it's, um... It balances out. 87 00:06:20,004 --> 00:06:23,966 I remember one day, a friend of mine gave me some dried peyote, 88 00:06:24,050 --> 00:06:26,469 which I'd... I'd never taken before. 89 00:06:26,969 --> 00:06:29,430 I live on a farm down in England. 90 00:06:29,514 --> 00:06:31,724 I took it at 11 a.m. 91 00:06:31,808 --> 00:06:35,019 On the way back to the main house, um... 92 00:06:35,103 --> 00:06:37,647 I started to get this feeling, 93 00:06:37,730 --> 00:06:39,982 and everything was coming alive. 94 00:06:40,441 --> 00:06:42,610 The grass starts talking to me... 95 00:06:42,693 --> 00:06:45,071 Sting! 96 00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:49,700 ...and very quickly, I entered this psychedelic realm. 97 00:06:49,784 --> 00:06:53,162 The trees are waving kind of musically at me. 98 00:06:53,246 --> 00:06:54,247 Sting! 99 00:06:54,330 --> 00:06:56,541 And I go past the farm, 100 00:06:56,958 --> 00:06:59,961 and I have a guy who runs my farm called John, 101 00:07:00,044 --> 00:07:02,630 who hails me over very urgently, 102 00:07:02,713 --> 00:07:04,799 "Come on! I need your help!" 103 00:07:04,882 --> 00:07:06,592 I said, "John, I'm, uh... 104 00:07:06,676 --> 00:07:08,886 I'm actually busy." 105 00:07:08,970 --> 00:07:11,556 He says, "No, you've gotta help me." I said, "Well, what is it?" 106 00:07:11,639 --> 00:07:15,518 He said, "Well, one of the cows is having a problem birthing, 107 00:07:15,601 --> 00:07:17,687 and I need your help... 108 00:07:17,770 --> 00:07:21,774 ...because without your help, she'll die. She's in a, you know, a bad way." 109 00:07:21,858 --> 00:07:25,486 And as he's speaking, I'm getting more and more high, and... 110 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:27,029 and disconcerted. 111 00:07:27,113 --> 00:07:29,073 So I go over to him, 112 00:07:29,574 --> 00:07:33,286 and she's in distress, she's crying, and she's in a great deal of pain. 113 00:07:35,371 --> 00:07:38,207 What the experience does is it very clearly 114 00:07:38,291 --> 00:07:41,419 presents you with the idea of mortality, right here, 115 00:07:41,502 --> 00:07:43,421 and you cannot... You can't dodge it. 116 00:07:43,504 --> 00:07:47,341 It's your own mortality, the mortality of this planet, 117 00:07:47,425 --> 00:07:50,386 the mortality of this little steer who's being born, and its mother. 118 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:52,472 So you cannot get around that. 119 00:07:52,555 --> 00:07:55,641 That is the central issue of consciousness. 120 00:07:56,184 --> 00:07:58,311 One day we will not exist. 121 00:07:58,603 --> 00:08:00,480 How do we... How do we deal with it? 122 00:08:00,563 --> 00:08:06,235 So, we wrap some rope around the steer's forelegs and snout, 123 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:07,987 and my job is to pull 124 00:08:08,070 --> 00:08:10,823 while he navigates the operation. 125 00:08:10,907 --> 00:08:14,660 And we're getting covered in all kinds of amniotic fluid and stuff. 126 00:08:14,744 --> 00:08:17,413 This operation takes about 20 minutes. 127 00:08:18,581 --> 00:08:21,334 It's like pulling in a whale on a fishing boat. 128 00:08:22,126 --> 00:08:23,377 And I'm getting higher. 129 00:08:27,965 --> 00:08:30,551 And we eventually get the steer out. 130 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:33,596 His mother breathes a sigh of relief, and for me, 131 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,307 the entire universe has cracked open. 132 00:08:36,390 --> 00:08:38,059 It was like the meaning of life. 133 00:08:39,977 --> 00:08:42,939 You know, I think what the psychedelic experience does 134 00:08:43,356 --> 00:08:44,482 is it takes... 135 00:08:45,983 --> 00:08:48,945 the "it" out of "me and it". 136 00:08:50,488 --> 00:08:52,698 It becomes me and thou. 137 00:08:52,782 --> 00:08:55,660 Everything, you know, whether it's a tree, 138 00:08:55,743 --> 00:08:58,204 or it's a river, or it's a piece of rock, 139 00:08:58,287 --> 00:09:01,290 you realize that you are connected. 140 00:09:01,374 --> 00:09:04,710 You know, you're made up of the same matter. 141 00:09:04,794 --> 00:09:07,505 I think when you treat the world as just an object, 142 00:09:07,588 --> 00:09:09,215 you tend to treat it badly. 143 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:12,885 If you see the world as part of you, 144 00:09:12,969 --> 00:09:15,221 then you will treat it better. 145 00:09:15,304 --> 00:09:17,890 You know, it's not something you want to do every day. 146 00:09:17,974 --> 00:09:19,433 You have to prepare. 147 00:09:19,725 --> 00:09:21,269 You need an intention. 148 00:09:21,352 --> 00:09:24,146 You can say, "Okay, I'm going to have this experience, 149 00:09:24,605 --> 00:09:27,275 and I'm hoping with this experience, 150 00:09:27,358 --> 00:09:29,151 I will be able to write a song, 151 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:31,571 or I will write my novel, 152 00:09:31,654 --> 00:09:33,155 or I will make love, 153 00:09:33,239 --> 00:09:37,118 or I will treat my family better, I'll be a better citizen." 154 00:09:37,201 --> 00:09:39,036 So if you have an objective, 155 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,039 and then you have the experience, then you'll be rewarded. 156 00:09:42,123 --> 00:09:44,542 If your objective is to just get fucked up, 157 00:09:44,625 --> 00:09:46,085 then you will get fucked up. 158 00:09:46,502 --> 00:09:48,796 So, my advice is don't do that. 159 00:09:48,879 --> 00:09:52,341 I'll be honest, I don't remember having a conversation about it, 160 00:09:52,425 --> 00:09:54,927 I don't remember anything other than he handed it to us, 161 00:09:55,011 --> 00:09:57,888 and we just went "boop," put it right in our mouths. 162 00:09:57,972 --> 00:10:01,142 Didn't think one thought about it. 163 00:10:02,393 --> 00:10:03,936 No thought went into it. 164 00:10:04,812 --> 00:10:06,981 Could've been a big life decision. 165 00:10:16,741 --> 00:10:18,951 I was a young comedian... 166 00:10:19,577 --> 00:10:21,162 in New York City. 167 00:10:22,496 --> 00:10:24,665 We used to hang out at the end of the night, 168 00:10:24,749 --> 00:10:27,376 all the comics would hang out at this restaurant. 169 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:30,963 This old hippie-looking white guy walked in. 170 00:10:31,047 --> 00:10:35,468 He had these, like, pretty substantial, like, white pieces of paper... 171 00:10:35,926 --> 00:10:37,261 "Boop... Boop." 172 00:10:37,345 --> 00:10:38,804 Forty-five minutes later... 173 00:10:38,888 --> 00:10:42,308 "What was that, was that acid we took? I don't feel anything." 174 00:10:42,391 --> 00:10:44,977 And it's always when you say, "I don't feel anything," 175 00:10:45,436 --> 00:10:47,855 it's usually kind of the tipping point. 176 00:10:49,273 --> 00:10:51,108 Do I feel anything? 177 00:10:52,109 --> 00:10:54,070 What is feeling? 178 00:10:55,696 --> 00:10:58,699 What is feeling? What is feeling anything? 179 00:10:58,783 --> 00:11:01,952 Oh, this is what tripping on acid is like. 180 00:11:02,036 --> 00:11:04,080 And the hot chocolate came, 181 00:11:04,163 --> 00:11:07,667 and the foam or the whipped cream was, like, breathing, 182 00:11:07,750 --> 00:11:09,919 and it was too alive to drink. 183 00:11:10,002 --> 00:11:12,046 We floated to Washington Square Park 184 00:11:12,129 --> 00:11:15,424 with a gaggle of people we had never met before. 185 00:11:15,508 --> 00:11:18,302 Semi-homeless, maybe-ish people. 186 00:11:19,303 --> 00:11:22,765 And we found ourselves feeling each other's faces, 187 00:11:23,099 --> 00:11:26,268 and laughing and crying... 188 00:11:26,352 --> 00:11:28,729 ...and realizing huge things. 189 00:11:28,813 --> 00:11:31,315 I remember saying, "Let's go back to my apartment." 190 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:33,901 - Ooh, yeah! - Yeah! 191 00:11:35,069 --> 00:11:36,153 So we just ran. 192 00:11:38,823 --> 00:11:40,241 Aww... 193 00:11:40,324 --> 00:11:42,827 So we get in his car, and he pulls out, 194 00:11:42,910 --> 00:11:44,453 and we get to the red light, 195 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:46,789 and the red light turns green, 196 00:11:46,872 --> 00:11:48,749 and then yellow, and then red... 197 00:11:48,833 --> 00:11:49,976 ...green, 198 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,337 and then yellow, and then red, then green, and yellow, and red. 199 00:11:53,421 --> 00:11:55,214 He has forgotten how to drive. 200 00:11:55,297 --> 00:11:58,175 For the life of him, he doesn't know how he even pulled out. 201 00:11:58,259 --> 00:11:59,593 It was just muscle memory. 202 00:12:00,010 --> 00:12:02,847 And then, he doesn't know what he's doing, how cars work. 203 00:12:02,930 --> 00:12:04,473 "How does a car work? 204 00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:06,183 We know how cars work?" 205 00:12:06,517 --> 00:12:07,685 Let's don't drive. 206 00:12:07,768 --> 00:12:09,729 Let's let... Let's have a sober buddy. 207 00:12:09,812 --> 00:12:11,522 No driving, that's insane. 208 00:12:11,605 --> 00:12:13,816 You want to be in the passenger seat. 209 00:12:13,899 --> 00:12:15,526 You don't wanna be the driver. 210 00:12:15,609 --> 00:12:16,609 I wanna be driving. 211 00:12:16,652 --> 00:12:18,612 I don't wanna sit there and think, 212 00:12:18,696 --> 00:12:21,866 "That person is seeing all the things I'm seeing, 213 00:12:21,949 --> 00:12:23,409 I think I'd better drive." 214 00:12:23,492 --> 00:12:25,327 You know when you see those white lines, 215 00:12:25,411 --> 00:12:28,289 if you look way in the distance, they almost look like they're going up. 216 00:12:28,372 --> 00:12:30,124 I remember sitting there driving the car, 217 00:12:30,207 --> 00:12:32,376 and my hands are just doing this by themselves. 218 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:35,188 It's almost like I could just sit and look out the window or whatever, 219 00:12:35,212 --> 00:12:36,714 'cause my body was driving the car. 220 00:12:36,797 --> 00:12:39,592 I eventually stopped. I just completely stopped. 221 00:12:39,675 --> 00:12:40,926 Because it's so steep, 222 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:43,262 but I'm not falling back. 223 00:12:44,388 --> 00:12:47,016 And I don't know how that's possible, and then I realize... 224 00:12:47,433 --> 00:12:49,101 I don't have my foot on the gas. 225 00:12:49,977 --> 00:12:52,313 I've just coasted to a stop 226 00:12:52,396 --> 00:12:53,689 on the Hollywood freeway. 227 00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:55,983 The road went whoosh... 228 00:12:56,567 --> 00:12:57,985 and disappeared. 229 00:12:58,068 --> 00:13:01,113 And I saw nothing but total blackness. 230 00:13:01,197 --> 00:13:04,992 And then there was this tiny little skull at the end of it. 231 00:13:05,075 --> 00:13:07,745 And it came forward, 232 00:13:07,828 --> 00:13:10,414 and in the skull was the road, 233 00:13:10,498 --> 00:13:13,292 and the mouth opened, and, whomp, I got swallowed. 234 00:13:13,375 --> 00:13:16,170 Don't drive on acid. 235 00:13:26,555 --> 00:13:28,182 Hi, I'm Tommy Roe. 236 00:13:28,891 --> 00:13:31,769 By now it must be obvious to you, as it is to me, 237 00:13:31,852 --> 00:13:34,313 that LSD is very powerful stuff. 238 00:13:34,396 --> 00:13:36,398 And that's just what it is: stuff. 239 00:13:42,029 --> 00:13:46,617 Acid and mushrooms are the Coke and Pepsi of hallucinogens, 240 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:49,954 but there are lots of things that can make you trip... 241 00:13:54,083 --> 00:13:56,627 But these are just the beginning of a list of compounds 242 00:13:56,710 --> 00:13:59,338 that can cause the human brain to experience 243 00:13:59,421 --> 00:14:02,716 altered states of reality and hallucinations. 244 00:14:04,593 --> 00:14:06,554 I decided I would, um... 245 00:14:07,721 --> 00:14:10,015 be initiated properly into peyote... 246 00:14:10,099 --> 00:14:12,768 So I took a plane down to Mexico City, 247 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:15,896 and then we went out in a van to the mountains, 248 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:19,358 and we met these people who would initiate me into this peyote cult. 249 00:14:19,441 --> 00:14:22,319 First of all, they cram massive amounts of peyote into your mouth, 250 00:14:22,403 --> 00:14:25,865 I mean huge amounts, with strychnine, 251 00:14:25,948 --> 00:14:28,826 and you look at this thing, and go, "This is poison." 252 00:14:28,909 --> 00:14:32,037 And they... keep stuffing it in. 253 00:14:32,329 --> 00:14:35,499 And very quickly, I am very high. 254 00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:40,754 You know, I mean, the desert already is a sort of surreal psychedelic experience. 255 00:14:40,838 --> 00:14:43,215 You just have to look at one of these gigantic cacti. 256 00:14:43,299 --> 00:14:45,759 You're in a sort of primal alien world. 257 00:14:45,843 --> 00:14:47,177 Sting! 258 00:14:47,261 --> 00:14:49,555 - Sting... - Ssssting! 259 00:14:50,764 --> 00:14:54,643 And then they blindfolded me with three other initiates. 260 00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:56,270 When you have your eyes closed, 261 00:14:56,353 --> 00:14:59,023 you're in this three dimensional, uh... cartoon world. 262 00:14:59,565 --> 00:15:02,359 You know, you're in a kind of space movie. 263 00:15:02,443 --> 00:15:05,821 And we were forced to climb the sacred mountain, 264 00:15:05,905 --> 00:15:09,116 I've forgotten the name of the sacred mountain, blindfolded, 265 00:15:09,199 --> 00:15:10,492 high on peyote, 266 00:15:10,576 --> 00:15:11,827 in the midday sun. 267 00:15:13,203 --> 00:15:16,749 So, we're stumbling up this mountain, and it's quite a hike. 268 00:15:16,832 --> 00:15:20,169 Anyway, eventually we get to the top in the early evening, 269 00:15:20,252 --> 00:15:23,380 and I feel this kind of sprinkling on my head. 270 00:15:23,464 --> 00:15:26,634 I think, "Oh, they're giving me a shower," because we were filthy dirty. 271 00:15:26,717 --> 00:15:30,012 I open my eyes, and it's blood. 272 00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:33,349 And I said, "What is this?" "Oh, it's deer's blood, it's part of it." 273 00:15:33,432 --> 00:15:36,060 I'm having deer's blood poured on top of me. 274 00:15:38,729 --> 00:15:41,065 And it was during the time of Halley's Comet. 275 00:15:41,565 --> 00:15:45,319 Halley's Comet is quite something, especially when you're on peyote, 276 00:15:45,402 --> 00:15:48,072 because it looks like a fiery dragon. 277 00:15:50,282 --> 00:15:52,201 Quite fearsome, and very threatening. 278 00:15:52,284 --> 00:15:57,414 But it didn't frighten me as much as this concept of mortality, 279 00:15:57,498 --> 00:15:59,208 which is a constant with me. 280 00:15:59,291 --> 00:16:00,751 This was something... 281 00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:06,632 difficult and, I think, meaningful. 282 00:16:20,437 --> 00:16:22,481 Drugs are great. 283 00:16:22,564 --> 00:16:25,526 Psychedelics are so cool. 284 00:16:25,609 --> 00:16:27,611 I love hallucinogens. 285 00:16:27,695 --> 00:16:29,530 Give me some, now! 286 00:16:30,197 --> 00:16:32,408 These are just some of the things you'll hear 287 00:16:32,491 --> 00:16:34,743 on a typical playground these days. 288 00:16:34,827 --> 00:16:36,036 Does that scare you? 289 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:37,204 It should. 290 00:16:37,287 --> 00:16:40,374 Because today's kids are increasingly turning on, 291 00:16:40,457 --> 00:16:42,543 tuning in, and dropping out. 292 00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:47,214 Now, how do us "squares" wrap our heads around this terrifying trend? 293 00:16:47,297 --> 00:16:50,300 Well, we watch videos, like this one, 294 00:16:50,384 --> 00:16:53,303 about one little girl, let's call her Emily, 295 00:16:53,387 --> 00:16:55,472 because that is her name, 296 00:16:55,556 --> 00:16:56,556 and her... 297 00:17:06,358 --> 00:17:08,360 Hey, guys, what's up? 298 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:11,989 So, Emily, I'm throwing a party tonight, 299 00:17:12,072 --> 00:17:14,450 and it'd be pretty rad if you came by. 300 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:17,119 No, remember we were gonna go have fun at your place, 301 00:17:17,202 --> 00:17:19,246 doing safe stuff under your mom's supervision. 302 00:17:19,329 --> 00:17:23,208 Parents get a bad rap, but... they're not so bad to hang around with. 303 00:17:24,251 --> 00:17:27,921 C'mon, Emily, it'll be fun. There'll be tons of hard drugs there. 304 00:17:28,714 --> 00:17:30,883 Okay, maybe I'll see you there. 305 00:17:31,842 --> 00:17:33,969 I mean, how bad could it be? 306 00:17:42,352 --> 00:17:44,313 Who's ready for some hard drugs? 307 00:17:44,897 --> 00:17:46,231 Got some LSD, 308 00:17:46,315 --> 00:17:47,691 some mushrooms, 309 00:17:47,775 --> 00:17:50,778 acid, some blue heaven, purple haze... 310 00:17:51,153 --> 00:17:52,905 I got blue sky on Mars, 311 00:17:52,988 --> 00:17:54,990 I got Grandma's dentures. 312 00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:56,909 I got Pac-Man... 313 00:17:56,992 --> 00:17:59,787 We got Super Marios, we got Luigis, 314 00:17:59,870 --> 00:18:03,123 we got Reagans, and some orange sunshine... 315 00:18:03,957 --> 00:18:05,334 Oh, I'm in! 316 00:18:11,632 --> 00:18:13,217 Orange sunshine doesn't sound too bad. 317 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:15,344 It has lots of names, Emily, 318 00:18:15,427 --> 00:18:20,224 but it doesn't take being a math nerd like Maya to know what it equals... 319 00:18:20,307 --> 00:18:22,267 A bad trip. 320 00:18:26,355 --> 00:18:28,148 C'mon, Emily, just try one. 321 00:18:28,232 --> 00:18:30,109 Maybe just one. 322 00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:32,872 - Don't do it, Emily. - Think about your future, Emily! 323 00:18:36,573 --> 00:18:38,742 I think I'm tripping... 324 00:18:40,953 --> 00:18:42,538 Weird... 325 00:18:43,539 --> 00:18:45,290 That's every acid trip in a movie. 326 00:18:45,374 --> 00:18:47,668 They have never, ever nailed it. 327 00:18:47,751 --> 00:18:51,171 They always, in movies, will use, like, a fisheye lens. 328 00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:55,551 They always pitch the person's voice way down, 329 00:18:55,634 --> 00:18:59,429 so everything just looks distorted, you know, and the person's like... 330 00:19:00,097 --> 00:19:02,599 "Hey, man, I'm on acid! 331 00:19:02,724 --> 00:19:05,352 Oh, my God, I can feel my soul!" 332 00:19:05,435 --> 00:19:08,605 The one thing I've seen in a movie that was pretty close 333 00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:10,607 was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 334 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,278 There's a scene where Johnny Depp is in the casino, 335 00:19:14,361 --> 00:19:18,615 and the floor is, like, kind of moving around and stuff. 336 00:19:19,199 --> 00:19:23,662 Like, when I saw that, I was like, "Yes. That's acid." 337 00:19:23,745 --> 00:19:25,414 I don't know how much acid you've taken, 338 00:19:25,497 --> 00:19:28,584 but one of the constants in most of my trips during that period 339 00:19:28,667 --> 00:19:31,628 is things would always happen while high on acid 340 00:19:31,712 --> 00:19:35,257 that under no ordinary circumstances would happen. 341 00:19:35,632 --> 00:19:37,885 Strange, and in this case, terrible things. 342 00:19:47,811 --> 00:19:50,355 Hi, my name's Anthony Bourdain. Um... 343 00:19:51,523 --> 00:19:53,192 I liked LSD a lot. 344 00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:57,321 You know, I became a teenager just as the '60s were ending, 345 00:19:57,404 --> 00:20:01,909 and, you know, I was cruelly disappointed that I'd sort of missed out 346 00:20:01,992 --> 00:20:03,827 on the entire hippie era. 347 00:20:03,911 --> 00:20:06,246 You know, I'd read about them in Life magazine, 348 00:20:06,330 --> 00:20:09,416 when I was nine and ten years old, and that looked really good. 349 00:20:09,499 --> 00:20:12,336 I thought, "I can't wait till I'm old enough to go to San Francisco 350 00:20:12,419 --> 00:20:14,796 and take acid," you know? 351 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,799 People are jumping out of windows and stuff, it must be interesting. 352 00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:20,135 And, you know, my parents were horrified by it, 353 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:22,846 so... that was something of an endorsement. 354 00:20:22,930 --> 00:20:27,684 I know I was fully in the thrall of the works of Hunter S. Thompson, 355 00:20:27,768 --> 00:20:30,604 And by fully in the thrall, I mean... 356 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:34,274 we thought Hunter Thompson was the coolest thing ever, 357 00:20:34,358 --> 00:20:36,985 and we wanted to be just like him. 358 00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:39,529 There's that Thompson image of, you know, 359 00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:41,907 you know you're having a bad trip when you look down, 360 00:20:41,990 --> 00:20:44,326 and you see your dead grandmother with a knife in her teeth 361 00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:45,661 crawling up your leg. 362 00:20:45,744 --> 00:20:47,829 That was funny to us, and we kind of... 363 00:20:47,913 --> 00:20:50,999 We wanted to, if not experience that, to survive that. 364 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:55,170 For this weekend, we prepared ourselves for an early version of the road trip. 365 00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:58,257 I told my parents that I was staying over at my friend's house 366 00:20:58,340 --> 00:20:59,967 for a sleepover weekend. 367 00:21:01,134 --> 00:21:03,679 He had use of the car, and, I think, a learner's permit. 368 00:21:03,762 --> 00:21:07,933 This was the basic framework around which our master plan coalesced. 369 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:09,893 First we acquired some drugs. 370 00:21:09,977 --> 00:21:13,355 A lot of acid, some weed, some Lebanese hash, 371 00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:16,358 Gordon's gin, and two cases of Maximus super beer. 372 00:21:16,441 --> 00:21:18,402 I don't know why we chose that brand. 373 00:21:18,485 --> 00:21:20,570 Also, and this is important: 374 00:21:20,654 --> 00:21:21,905 some Quaaludes. 375 00:21:22,531 --> 00:21:25,701 And proceeded to take a lot of the drugs, including the LSD. 376 00:21:31,707 --> 00:21:35,168 We set out for the dark heart of the Catskills. 377 00:21:35,252 --> 00:21:37,963 So we're driving along, getting off on the acid, 378 00:21:38,046 --> 00:21:40,048 and we encounter two hitchhikers. 379 00:21:40,132 --> 00:21:43,552 Attractive-looking young women, they were exotic dancers. 380 00:21:44,136 --> 00:21:47,556 One of them identified herself by the name Panama Red. 381 00:21:47,639 --> 00:21:50,559 Experienced young women of the world in search of a ride. 382 00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:53,645 We immediately let it slip as well that we were fully loaded 383 00:21:53,729 --> 00:21:57,065 with a pretty dizzying array of controlled substances. 384 00:21:57,149 --> 00:22:00,902 Unsurprisingly enough, this interested these two young delicate flowers. 385 00:22:03,363 --> 00:22:04,990 We went back to her room. 386 00:22:05,532 --> 00:22:07,909 And we smoke some weed, we smoke some hash... 387 00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:11,204 Uh-oh, careful, he's gonna attack! 388 00:22:15,917 --> 00:22:17,294 It's not real. Look at this! 389 00:22:17,711 --> 00:22:20,505 Then she reminded us that we had mentioned Quaaludes. 390 00:22:21,048 --> 00:22:23,175 And I gave her one, 391 00:22:23,258 --> 00:22:25,886 and she seemed to indicate that this was unsatisfactory, 392 00:22:25,969 --> 00:22:26,970 that she would like two. 393 00:22:27,054 --> 00:22:28,347 Two Parest-400's. 394 00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:31,099 Now these motherfuckers were industrial strength, 395 00:22:31,183 --> 00:22:33,268 powerful fucking Methaqualone. 396 00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:35,562 Panama starts, with the help of all that liquor, 397 00:22:35,645 --> 00:22:38,940 starts getting pretty high on that Quaalude as it's hitting in. 398 00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:41,985 We are, by this point, ha... we're peaking, okay? 399 00:22:43,236 --> 00:22:45,781 That part, things started to go wrong. 400 00:22:47,783 --> 00:22:49,409 Well, things went wrong very quickly. 401 00:22:49,826 --> 00:22:54,373 Panama starts modeling her outfits from her earlier years in Vegas. 402 00:22:59,169 --> 00:23:02,798 Suddenly, Panama, mid-stride, her eyes roll up in her head, 403 00:23:02,881 --> 00:23:07,052 and she keels over, stone dead on the fucking floor. 404 00:23:19,523 --> 00:23:21,024 She's OD'd, she's dead, 405 00:23:21,149 --> 00:23:23,149 and we've given her the drugs that have killed her. 406 00:23:23,193 --> 00:23:27,030 Already in my mind, the police helicopters with their searchlights 407 00:23:27,114 --> 00:23:29,491 would be swooping over the motel at any minute. 408 00:23:29,574 --> 00:23:33,370 There will be, you know, special units with battering rams 409 00:23:33,453 --> 00:23:35,288 coming in the windows and the doors. 410 00:23:35,872 --> 00:23:37,457 What do we do now? 411 00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:40,502 You know, "My parents think I'm sleeping at your house," 412 00:23:40,919 --> 00:23:43,004 and we're high. We're really, really high. 413 00:23:43,088 --> 00:23:44,297 On the way over here, 414 00:23:44,381 --> 00:23:48,885 you know, the sky is filled with colors and concentric circles, 415 00:23:48,969 --> 00:23:51,221 and strange and, you know, wonderful things. 416 00:23:51,304 --> 00:23:54,307 Now, it's ugly and paranoid. 417 00:23:54,391 --> 00:23:57,853 Reality has intruded in a seriously ugly way. 418 00:23:57,936 --> 00:24:02,023 Before we came close to figuring out what happened, 419 00:24:02,107 --> 00:24:04,526 she stirred and roused herself, 420 00:24:05,068 --> 00:24:06,570 as if nothing had happened. 421 00:24:06,653 --> 00:24:09,823 She stood up as if she collapses to the floor all the time. 422 00:24:13,076 --> 00:24:17,247 We drank a lot of gin, and snorted coke off the Gideon's Bible. 423 00:24:17,330 --> 00:24:19,767 I remember at one point excusing myself to go to the bathroom, 424 00:24:19,791 --> 00:24:22,794 and looking in the mirror and seeing, uh... 425 00:24:22,878 --> 00:24:27,007 you know, an Indian chief in full war-paint in the in the mirror, 426 00:24:27,090 --> 00:24:30,760 looking up and... Looking in a mirror is never a good idea on acid, 427 00:24:30,844 --> 00:24:33,221 but in this case, it was a really bad idea. 428 00:24:33,305 --> 00:24:36,349 Don't look in the mirror. Cover the mirrors. 429 00:24:36,766 --> 00:24:38,685 Not a great idea to look in a mirror. 430 00:24:38,768 --> 00:24:41,646 Oh, my God, looking in the mirror is, like, the worst. 431 00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:44,274 Like, looking in the mirror, and who am I, who do I see? 432 00:24:44,357 --> 00:24:45,734 You can see through your skin. 433 00:24:45,817 --> 00:24:49,488 Your skin is apparently more translucent, uh, when you're tripping. 434 00:24:49,571 --> 00:24:54,034 You can see, like, the blood rushing through your vessels and the veins. 435 00:24:54,117 --> 00:24:56,786 Especially if you have any self-esteem issues. 436 00:24:56,870 --> 00:25:00,957 You know, it's just like... I mean, I've had, like, my face turns into a goat. 437 00:25:01,041 --> 00:25:03,543 Doesn't matter what you look like, cover the mirrors. 438 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,634 Don't look in the mirror! 439 00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:13,762 I'm Dr. Charles Grob, spelled G-R-O-B. 440 00:25:13,845 --> 00:25:15,889 I'm a psychiatrist. 441 00:25:15,972 --> 00:25:17,182 I'm a researcher 442 00:25:17,265 --> 00:25:21,186 investigating the potential for a hallucinogen treatment model 443 00:25:21,269 --> 00:25:25,357 to heal psychiatric illness 444 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,150 or heal addiction. 445 00:25:27,901 --> 00:25:32,197 I've also conducted an FDA-approved study where we had permission 446 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:37,452 to use the alkaloid of hallucinogenic mushrooms, psilocybin, 447 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,789 in a treatment model for individuals with advanced stage cancer 448 00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:42,332 who have reactive anxiety. 449 00:25:42,415 --> 00:25:45,961 Overall, their quality of life improved noticeably. 450 00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:47,754 No one had a bad trip, 451 00:25:47,837 --> 00:25:51,299 no one had a serious physiological reaction. 452 00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:54,886 So, we found that, you know, at the very least, 453 00:25:54,970 --> 00:25:57,514 there was good potential in this treatment model, 454 00:25:57,597 --> 00:26:00,559 and worthy of further controlled investigation. 455 00:26:01,768 --> 00:26:05,689 Let's hear from young people who've had their reasons for being down on LSD. 456 00:26:05,772 --> 00:26:08,942 Let's also hear from doctors, psychologists and other experts 457 00:26:09,025 --> 00:26:10,735 who have tried LSD themselves. 458 00:26:11,611 --> 00:26:15,198 The only time I think I've ever been able to understand myself 459 00:26:15,282 --> 00:26:16,449 was on an acid trip. 460 00:26:16,908 --> 00:26:18,618 Then things were really clear. 461 00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:21,746 You know, I didn't have any one small bad trip. 462 00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:25,000 I had one long pretty good one. 463 00:26:25,417 --> 00:26:28,211 I had outfits that went with acid, 464 00:26:28,295 --> 00:26:30,922 I had the music that went with acid, 465 00:26:31,464 --> 00:26:33,925 uh... makeup that went with acid... 466 00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:35,927 To me, it was a... 467 00:26:36,511 --> 00:26:37,721 a ritual drug. 468 00:26:37,804 --> 00:26:39,514 You wanna look at my house? 469 00:26:39,598 --> 00:26:42,559 Okay, my house is the acid house. 470 00:26:54,404 --> 00:26:55,989 It affected everything. 471 00:27:06,666 --> 00:27:09,961 To me, it's so hilarious to have, like, drug anecdotes. 472 00:27:10,045 --> 00:27:12,756 The very nature of what you're asking... 473 00:27:13,590 --> 00:27:16,843 If you're doing drugs the right way, you can't tell an orderly story. 474 00:27:18,094 --> 00:27:20,889 Hi, I'm Carrie Fisher, and... 475 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,725 I took a lot of LSD. 476 00:27:23,808 --> 00:27:27,479 I think I'd heard about acid maybe from John Belushi. 477 00:27:27,562 --> 00:27:29,439 But I did not have a problem with... 478 00:27:29,522 --> 00:27:31,900 At that point, I didn't have a problem with drugs. 479 00:27:31,983 --> 00:27:34,194 I had not gotten into the drug zone 480 00:27:34,277 --> 00:27:38,281 that would ultimately prove to be my downfall, 481 00:27:38,365 --> 00:27:39,741 which would be opiates. 482 00:27:39,824 --> 00:27:41,534 You know, it would be hard to get... 483 00:27:41,618 --> 00:27:44,162 What, are you going to get addicted to acid? You know, no. 484 00:27:44,245 --> 00:27:46,081 And it's a very hard drug to take. 485 00:27:46,164 --> 00:27:51,002 So, I would organize trips around to places in the world 486 00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:52,837 simply to take acid there. 487 00:27:53,713 --> 00:27:56,925 I would do these things, and forget that... 488 00:27:57,967 --> 00:27:59,844 I looked like someone... 489 00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:04,224 named Princess Leia, or whatever I was for people, and... 490 00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:09,354 and so it's not a brilliant idea to then, you know, take acid and go running around. 491 00:28:09,437 --> 00:28:11,564 So, yeah, I went to the Seychelles. 492 00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:15,068 And we took acid, and... 493 00:28:15,568 --> 00:28:18,488 Oh, my God, I was on... 494 00:28:19,989 --> 00:28:23,827 on the beach, and there was no one else on the beach. 495 00:28:24,327 --> 00:28:31,167 And so I'm with my Super 8 movie camera, that's when this was. 496 00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:33,795 And I'm filming my friend, 497 00:28:33,878 --> 00:28:37,090 and as this is going along, suddenly... 498 00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:39,843 I sensed that... 499 00:28:40,802 --> 00:28:43,346 there's been a disturbance in the force. 500 00:28:44,931 --> 00:28:46,015 Don't put that in. 501 00:28:46,099 --> 00:28:49,811 Uh, anyway, and I turn around, and by the way, I'm... 502 00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:54,315 I can't imagine that I'm nude, but certainly I'm topless. 503 00:28:55,442 --> 00:28:56,901 And we turn around, 504 00:28:56,985 --> 00:29:01,197 and there are a busload of Japanese folk that have just arrived, 505 00:29:01,281 --> 00:29:03,450 and it turns out where we are, 506 00:29:03,533 --> 00:29:08,329 it's where they bring the tourists to have lunch from all the hotels. 507 00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:13,710 I am at that time, I believe, Princess Leia, in a profound way, 508 00:29:13,793 --> 00:29:15,086 and not... 509 00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:16,754 clothed. 510 00:29:16,796 --> 00:29:18,590 I took acid and went, 511 00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:22,802 "Oh, I see, this makes sense." 512 00:29:23,261 --> 00:29:27,056 And in fact, when I was first, uh, told I was bipolar, 513 00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:29,934 well, I went in to see a doctor, and I said, 514 00:29:31,978 --> 00:29:34,397 "Well, I felt normal on acid." 515 00:29:34,814 --> 00:29:40,278 Why she might feel normal when taking LSD during the height of her fame, 516 00:29:40,361 --> 00:29:43,907 it may have something to do with how unnatural it felt 517 00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:45,575 being a public persona, 518 00:29:45,658 --> 00:29:49,621 how disconnected she may have been from herself. 519 00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:53,833 And how the LSD experience may have allowed her 520 00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:58,296 to have accessed some core element, her core self, 521 00:29:58,379 --> 00:30:01,007 and allowed her to feel more genuine in that regard. 522 00:30:01,424 --> 00:30:05,136 Anyway, what happened was we took this Owsley acid. 523 00:30:05,220 --> 00:30:07,222 We got really high. 524 00:30:08,097 --> 00:30:09,432 We were in Central Park. 525 00:30:10,141 --> 00:30:12,143 I'm holding onto the ground, 526 00:30:14,395 --> 00:30:17,190 'cause it was hard to stay on the planet. 527 00:30:19,025 --> 00:30:22,487 And I'm watching an acorn, 528 00:30:23,154 --> 00:30:26,032 and it's moving a lot. 529 00:30:26,866 --> 00:30:29,035 I never saw anything that wasn't there. 530 00:30:29,118 --> 00:30:32,747 I just saw things that were there... misbehave. 531 00:30:37,585 --> 00:30:40,839 Holy shit! You're Carrie Fisher! 532 00:30:41,756 --> 00:30:43,758 You're fucking Princess Leia! 533 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:46,678 Oh, my God, I'm such a huge fan of yours! 534 00:30:46,761 --> 00:30:48,388 And it's misbehaving... 535 00:30:48,471 --> 00:30:51,808 Look at this. I got it at a garage sale. Huh? 536 00:30:51,891 --> 00:30:53,434 Woo! 537 00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:54,602 And misbehaving... 538 00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:58,356 I'm talking to you, 'cause you're tripping your fucking balls off! 539 00:30:58,439 --> 00:31:01,067 No, just... No, no! 540 00:31:01,150 --> 00:31:04,696 So I had to watch this acorn, 541 00:31:04,779 --> 00:31:08,408 you know, basically choreograph itself. 542 00:31:08,491 --> 00:31:10,535 You're in show business. Can I run something by you? 543 00:31:10,618 --> 00:31:12,245 Tell me what you think, okay? 544 00:31:12,328 --> 00:31:13,328 ♪ I'm a nut ♪ 545 00:31:14,789 --> 00:31:15,832 ♪ I'm a nut ♪ 546 00:31:16,833 --> 00:31:19,002 ♪ I'm a nut, nut, nut ♪ 547 00:31:19,085 --> 00:31:20,128 ♪ I'm nuts ♪ 548 00:31:20,211 --> 00:31:21,211 ♪ I'm a nut ♪ 549 00:31:21,254 --> 00:31:24,090 - What do you think? I'm still, you know... - Shut up! 550 00:31:24,173 --> 00:31:26,759 Oh... you don't like it. 551 00:31:26,843 --> 00:31:28,261 So at that point, 552 00:31:28,344 --> 00:31:31,890 the acorn was almost back to being itself. 553 00:31:32,473 --> 00:31:33,975 Don't tell anybody what you saw here. 554 00:31:35,018 --> 00:31:36,644 Shh! 555 00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:39,939 Shh... 556 00:31:40,023 --> 00:31:41,107 Don't say nothin'! 557 00:31:43,985 --> 00:31:45,403 As a psychologist, 558 00:31:45,486 --> 00:31:48,573 I have to tell you that the understanding you think you have gained 559 00:31:48,656 --> 00:31:50,366 just doesn't fit in with the facts. 560 00:31:50,450 --> 00:31:52,619 The only real understanding you could gain 561 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:55,496 would come from having a bummer, and then analyzing it, 562 00:31:55,997 --> 00:31:58,666 which would mean you'd have to want to try to have bummers, 563 00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:00,585 and then attempt to understand them, 564 00:32:00,668 --> 00:32:03,046 the way that psychologists analyze dreams. 565 00:32:03,504 --> 00:32:05,465 Which, unless you are properly trained, 566 00:32:05,548 --> 00:32:07,258 you cannot do by yourself. 567 00:32:08,635 --> 00:32:13,264 Drugs, uh... change your state of consciousness very dramatically. 568 00:32:14,265 --> 00:32:17,310 So you run the risk of psychosis, 569 00:32:17,393 --> 00:32:19,228 or what's called "a bad trip." 570 00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:24,233 A bad trip is minimized the more you control your set and setting. 571 00:32:24,317 --> 00:32:26,903 A "set" is who's the person having this experience, 572 00:32:26,986 --> 00:32:30,239 their mindset, their vulnerabilities, their intention. 573 00:32:30,323 --> 00:32:34,577 "Setting" is where you're doing it, how safe is the setting, 574 00:32:34,661 --> 00:32:37,705 Don't take acid with... strangers, 575 00:32:37,789 --> 00:32:40,375 or people who pretend to be your friends, 576 00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:41,584 or friends of friends. 577 00:32:41,668 --> 00:32:43,252 Pick your company well. 578 00:32:43,336 --> 00:32:45,672 Do not ever take LSD with assholes. 579 00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:48,025 You don't want somebody doing, "Oh, are you freaking out?" 580 00:32:48,049 --> 00:32:49,592 "Oh, you feel it? 581 00:32:49,676 --> 00:32:51,636 Oh, you feel your mind cracking?" 582 00:32:53,304 --> 00:32:54,597 So crazy... 583 00:32:54,681 --> 00:32:57,433 "Do you see pink elephants, man? Do you see pink elephants?" 584 00:32:57,517 --> 00:32:59,811 If you've got a deep sadness or a problem, 585 00:32:59,894 --> 00:33:02,605 that can often be dangerously enhanced. 586 00:33:02,689 --> 00:33:06,109 You don't want a bunch of crazy stuff going on in your head, 587 00:33:06,192 --> 00:33:09,737 like bad stuff that you're dealing with, like, "I just broke up with somebody," 588 00:33:09,821 --> 00:33:12,657 or, "I got caught masturbating in the coffee machine," 589 00:33:12,740 --> 00:33:15,326 because that sort of guilt and shame, 590 00:33:15,785 --> 00:33:17,453 you know, just becomes bigger. 591 00:33:17,537 --> 00:33:19,330 You wanna make sure you're strong mentally. 592 00:33:19,414 --> 00:33:22,542 It's a journey that everyone must take on their own... 593 00:33:22,959 --> 00:33:23,959 with friends. 594 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,796 Hang out with a couple of good friends in an enclosed space, 595 00:33:26,879 --> 00:33:29,882 not enclosed, with some outdoors, enjoy the outdoors. 596 00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:32,969 I'd suggest the woods. That's it, the woods. 597 00:33:33,052 --> 00:33:35,138 Water nearby, a flowing river, 598 00:33:35,221 --> 00:33:36,848 fucking trees, and beauty. 599 00:33:36,931 --> 00:33:38,224 People always say 600 00:33:38,307 --> 00:33:40,977 that you should trip in a meadow or somewhere natural, 601 00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:43,100 and that's probably great, but I've never done that. 602 00:33:43,146 --> 00:33:44,856 I've always been in New York City. 603 00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:47,775 The first time I went to New York and just got high, 604 00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:50,069 I thought the taxis were out to kill me. 605 00:33:50,153 --> 00:33:51,404 Stay away from cities. 606 00:34:00,496 --> 00:34:03,207 And now, back to Bad Trip. 607 00:34:03,291 --> 00:34:06,753 Everyone will tell you that taking a trip will be fine, 608 00:34:06,836 --> 00:34:09,797 as long as you control your set and setting. 609 00:34:09,881 --> 00:34:11,632 But the only thing that is sure 610 00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:14,969 is you are set on setting out on a... 611 00:34:24,353 --> 00:34:26,731 "Orange" you glad we're friends? 612 00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:30,359 I don't know, "orange" you? 613 00:34:31,569 --> 00:34:34,113 You guys are acting really weird. 614 00:34:34,197 --> 00:34:37,408 Yeah, guys, knock it off, it's not funny anymore. 615 00:34:37,492 --> 00:34:40,328 You know what'd be funny? If I jumped out of a window. 616 00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:42,205 That sounds like a great idea! 617 00:34:42,288 --> 00:34:43,372 Yeah, do it! 618 00:34:43,456 --> 00:34:44,916 Okay! 619 00:34:44,999 --> 00:34:46,667 What? No! 620 00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:48,169 Not the window! 621 00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:05,186 Drugs are a laugh riot... until they're not. 622 00:35:12,735 --> 00:35:13,861 Hi, my name is Nick Kroll, 623 00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:17,490 and I have a cautionary tale to tell about tripping. Um... 624 00:35:17,573 --> 00:35:20,827 You know, it was super fun, I just want to caution people. 625 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,338 Couple of years ago, 626 00:35:32,421 --> 00:35:34,799 uh, my friend's bachelor party, 627 00:35:34,882 --> 00:35:36,926 rented a house up in Malibu, 628 00:35:37,009 --> 00:35:39,428 and I procured a bunch of mushrooms for it 629 00:35:39,512 --> 00:35:43,432 because, you know, dudes in their mid-to-late 30s 630 00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:47,854 are just looking to, you know, fucking escape. 631 00:35:48,771 --> 00:35:52,483 People were smoking salvia, so you knew it's a classy affair. 632 00:35:55,027 --> 00:35:57,029 We're on some private beach in Malibu. 633 00:35:57,113 --> 00:35:58,823 We all take mushrooms. 634 00:35:58,948 --> 00:36:01,748 I take a few more, just to be, like, "Yeah, it's cool, these are good." 635 00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:06,038 - Higher! - Oh! I love my friends! 636 00:36:06,372 --> 00:36:07,772 So we're having a good time. 637 00:36:07,832 --> 00:36:09,917 I'm thinking, "I'm in the water, I'm tripping, 638 00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:12,962 there's a 90% chance I'm going to drown, 639 00:36:13,045 --> 00:36:16,757 but it's feeling good to be one with the Earth." 640 00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:20,553 We get out of the water, now I'm on the beach, I'm starting to really roll, 641 00:36:20,636 --> 00:36:24,557 and I sit down, and I've eaten more mushrooms than everybody else. 642 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,936 I see my buddies, and they are starting to gather a bunch of sea kelp. 643 00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:32,690 I see this, and I'm like, "I understand what's going to happen now." 644 00:36:32,773 --> 00:36:34,025 Oh, God... 645 00:36:34,108 --> 00:36:35,443 They've come out of the water. 646 00:36:35,526 --> 00:36:38,404 They're emerging with about 40 to 50 pounds, 647 00:36:38,487 --> 00:36:40,656 and I just see them lift it, 648 00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:43,951 and just put all of this sea kelp on my body. 649 00:36:45,536 --> 00:36:47,788 And I was... 650 00:36:48,372 --> 00:36:49,415 thrilled. 651 00:36:49,498 --> 00:36:52,251 And the sea kelp starts to move on me, 652 00:36:52,335 --> 00:36:54,170 and I'm like, "I am the kelp monster." 653 00:36:54,253 --> 00:36:56,255 I am the kelp monster! 654 00:37:02,470 --> 00:37:05,431 I couldn't even fathom wanting to remove... 655 00:37:06,724 --> 00:37:09,477 this fucking detritus from the sea. 656 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,395 Kelp monster! 657 00:37:11,479 --> 00:37:13,314 Uh... The next day I woke up, 658 00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:16,025 uh, covered in red welts, 659 00:37:16,525 --> 00:37:19,904 um, because I had, uh... 660 00:37:19,987 --> 00:37:22,949 been covered in sea fucking kelp 661 00:37:23,032 --> 00:37:24,867 for 45 minutes. 662 00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:29,247 I don't really dig dropping pills, but you get the wildest trip on acid. 663 00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:31,749 Yeah, but you can also get the wildest bummers. 664 00:37:31,832 --> 00:37:35,378 You know, when there's, like, four corners or whatever, and... 665 00:37:35,878 --> 00:37:38,547 you kind of get trained by stop lights 666 00:37:38,631 --> 00:37:41,384 or by the walk sign and the don't walk sign or whatever, 667 00:37:41,467 --> 00:37:46,264 and I remember all of a sudden being like, "Oh, I wanna get over there..." 668 00:37:46,347 --> 00:37:48,349 And instead of going from here... 669 00:37:48,432 --> 00:37:50,851 from point A, to point B, to point C, I was like, 670 00:37:50,935 --> 00:37:53,771 "I could just go from point A to point C!" 671 00:37:53,854 --> 00:37:57,483 And it sounds really stupid, 672 00:37:57,566 --> 00:37:59,193 but it's something acid gave me, 673 00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:01,570 and then in my life I use it all the time, where I'm like, 674 00:38:01,654 --> 00:38:06,242 "If no one's looking, I can just head straight to point C, 675 00:38:06,325 --> 00:38:08,953 without doing this point B bullshit." 676 00:38:19,338 --> 00:38:20,673 So, I'm Kathleen, 677 00:38:20,756 --> 00:38:24,260 and this is Adam, we're married, we're both musicians. Tell yours. 678 00:38:24,343 --> 00:38:26,846 My story that I wanted to tell... 679 00:38:27,346 --> 00:38:28,472 isn't... 680 00:38:28,597 --> 00:38:32,977 I've never had, like, a bad acid trip, or a bad mushroom trip, 681 00:38:33,060 --> 00:38:34,060 like a freak-out. 682 00:38:34,103 --> 00:38:37,523 Late '80s, I was with three friends, we were driving to... 683 00:38:37,606 --> 00:38:40,568 My friend Money Mark said, "You gotta go to this place in Baja." 684 00:38:40,651 --> 00:38:41,736 It's me and three women, 685 00:38:41,819 --> 00:38:45,031 and we're just, like, in the middle of nowhere, in Mexico. 686 00:38:45,448 --> 00:38:47,742 My friend was like, "Oh, I've got two hits of acid, 687 00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:49,076 we should take 'em." 688 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,746 So we put them in a Snapple bottle, we all drank it. 689 00:39:01,380 --> 00:39:02,631 And a tire blows. 690 00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:05,968 With me and three women, and we're in the middle of nowhere. 691 00:39:06,052 --> 00:39:08,780 I don't know how to change a tire, I don't even know if there was a tire. 692 00:39:08,804 --> 00:39:10,806 You know, as I'm saying it, I don't even know... 693 00:39:10,890 --> 00:39:13,142 I can't believe he didn't know how to change a tire! 694 00:39:13,225 --> 00:39:15,770 I don't even know if we looked to see if there was another tire. 695 00:39:18,564 --> 00:39:21,525 As we're like, "This is really grim..." 696 00:39:22,109 --> 00:39:25,404 a white owl flies right above us... 697 00:39:25,488 --> 00:39:27,365 ...and we're like, "It's a sign. 698 00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:29,533 Something great's about to happen!" 699 00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:32,787 These two vans filled with dudes, 700 00:39:32,870 --> 00:39:33,996 like, grown men, 701 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,374 pull up, and we're like, "Oh, this is great! 702 00:39:36,457 --> 00:39:38,125 Oh shit, this is a little weird." 703 00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:41,462 All these guys come out, and they're kinda walking around the car checking us out. 704 00:39:41,545 --> 00:39:43,130 There are three hot girls in the car. 705 00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:44,840 If I go with them, 706 00:39:44,924 --> 00:39:47,468 they'll take me to a place... to a guy who has tires. 707 00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:51,097 And so I'm like, "Look, I don't know if I'm coming back, you guys." 708 00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:53,474 So we do the four-way hug, and we're like, 709 00:39:53,808 --> 00:39:55,309 you know, "Good luck." 710 00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:59,647 And so we drive, and we drive, and we take a turn further into the mountains. 711 00:39:59,980 --> 00:40:01,649 It's like it's right out of a movie. 712 00:40:01,732 --> 00:40:04,860 And there's all these old dudes sitting around by a campfire. 713 00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:08,114 And there's these two cinder block shacks, 714 00:40:08,197 --> 00:40:10,533 and I'm like, "Over there?" 715 00:40:12,910 --> 00:40:17,581 Out of the shack comes the biggest person you've ever seen. 716 00:40:18,165 --> 00:40:19,625 Overalls, no shirt, 717 00:40:19,708 --> 00:40:20,793 he's backlit, 718 00:40:20,876 --> 00:40:24,088 with the biggest fucking hammer you've ever seen in your life. 719 00:40:24,171 --> 00:40:26,424 The more I was freaking out, the more they were laughing. 720 00:40:26,507 --> 00:40:29,593 He turns over and then he starts banging on the door. 721 00:40:32,221 --> 00:40:34,014 He opens the door, I'm like... 722 00:40:34,348 --> 00:40:36,183 "Alright, this is it. This is... 723 00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:40,604 I try to fight everybody here to get out, or I see what's in the room." 724 00:40:43,482 --> 00:40:46,110 Turns the light on, it's filled with fucking tires. 725 00:40:46,193 --> 00:40:47,403 It's filled with tires! 726 00:40:47,486 --> 00:40:48,946 It's a church group. 727 00:40:49,029 --> 00:40:51,615 The two vans are from a church group. 728 00:40:51,699 --> 00:40:54,952 And they led us on our way, they told us, "Go back down this way..." 729 00:40:55,327 --> 00:40:56,912 Wow. It all worked out fine. 730 00:40:56,996 --> 00:40:58,080 It was the owl. 731 00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:06,005 This is your brain. 732 00:41:06,589 --> 00:41:07,798 This is your brain. 733 00:41:08,174 --> 00:41:09,216 This is your brain. 734 00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:10,926 This is your brain. 735 00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:13,888 This is your brain on drugs. 736 00:41:20,561 --> 00:41:22,938 This is your brain on my sandwich. 737 00:41:27,109 --> 00:41:28,194 Delicious. 738 00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:31,655 Always that same LSD story, you've all seen it. 739 00:41:31,739 --> 00:41:34,617 "Young man on acid, thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. 740 00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:36,035 What a tragedy." 741 00:41:36,994 --> 00:41:39,914 What a dick! Fuck him. He's an idiot. 742 00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:42,958 If he thought he could fly, why didn't he take off from the ground? 743 00:41:43,709 --> 00:41:46,462 There isn't a lot of stories of people leaping. 744 00:41:46,921 --> 00:41:48,088 You know, that was the thing. 745 00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:50,716 It was a lot of shit that was coming down the pipe 746 00:41:50,799 --> 00:41:54,845 when we were originally taking it, you know, to kinda scare us off. 747 00:41:54,929 --> 00:41:56,805 Both my parents were therapists, 748 00:41:56,889 --> 00:41:59,934 and they worked in this, uh, psychiatric hospital. 749 00:42:00,017 --> 00:42:03,312 And I guess the way my parents telling me not to do drugs 750 00:42:03,395 --> 00:42:05,773 was by coming home and telling me 751 00:42:05,856 --> 00:42:08,400 how messed up the kids were at the hospital 752 00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:09,902 who did drugs only once. 753 00:42:09,985 --> 00:42:11,028 My mom'd be like, 754 00:42:11,111 --> 00:42:14,198 "This kid smoked marijuana, and it was laced with PCP, 755 00:42:14,281 --> 00:42:16,825 and now he's insane, he doesn't know what to do. 756 00:42:16,909 --> 00:42:19,245 He puts a fist up his butt, that's all he does." 757 00:42:19,328 --> 00:42:22,081 That was literally a story my mom told me. 758 00:42:22,164 --> 00:42:27,211 So I had the fear of God in me about doing any sort of drugs whatsoever. 759 00:42:27,294 --> 00:42:30,756 I never did it. That is until I went to Amsterdam. 760 00:42:40,724 --> 00:42:41,892 Hey, I'm Paul Scheer. 761 00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:46,313 And this is my story about getting ridiculously high. 762 00:42:46,397 --> 00:42:50,067 I went to Amsterdam with a bunch of my comedy friends to do some shows. 763 00:42:50,150 --> 00:42:53,362 And it was like, "Wow, Amsterdam, like, marijuana's legal... 764 00:42:53,445 --> 00:42:55,525 Wow! You can even do mushrooms. This will be amazing. 765 00:42:55,573 --> 00:42:58,117 Alright, we have to have a mushroom day." 766 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,661 And we finally went to a shop, and, you know, 767 00:43:00,744 --> 00:43:04,290 they bring them out like you would bring out diamonds at Tiffany's. 768 00:43:04,373 --> 00:43:07,001 They have different types of mushrooms, 769 00:43:07,084 --> 00:43:08,210 and we pick them... 770 00:43:08,294 --> 00:43:11,255 I remember I picked something that was like "Hawaiian-something." 771 00:43:11,338 --> 00:43:13,424 I was like, "Hawaii, that's cool, yeah, like surfing. 772 00:43:13,507 --> 00:43:14,787 That's the kind of trip I want." 773 00:43:14,842 --> 00:43:17,636 So we decided where's the best place to do it 774 00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:20,431 and it would have to be the Van Gogh Museum. 775 00:43:20,514 --> 00:43:22,683 So, we go into the Van Gogh Museum, 776 00:43:23,183 --> 00:43:25,185 and, you know, we're just eating these mushrooms... 777 00:43:25,269 --> 00:43:27,855 They say, "Don't eat the whole thing all at once, right?" "Fine." 778 00:43:27,938 --> 00:43:31,483 So I'm eating these mushrooms. And about five minutes pass, I'm like... 779 00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:35,154 "Pfft... I don't feel anything. These mushrooms don't work at all." 780 00:43:39,491 --> 00:43:40,576 Well... 781 00:43:41,744 --> 00:43:43,329 I'm Paul Scheer, in Amsterdam, 782 00:43:43,412 --> 00:43:46,248 and I guess these mushrooms aren't kicking in. 783 00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:49,585 And so I just eat more of them, and then more of them. 784 00:43:50,461 --> 00:43:52,129 I guess I'll just enjoy the art. 785 00:43:52,546 --> 00:43:53,756 I'm Paul Scheer in Amsterdam. 786 00:43:53,839 --> 00:43:56,050 I look up at one of the paintings, 787 00:43:56,133 --> 00:43:59,345 which is the crows over the cornfield, 788 00:43:59,428 --> 00:44:01,597 and it really, like, grabs me, for some reason. 789 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,558 "Wow, this is really interesting. Oh, look at that! 790 00:44:04,642 --> 00:44:06,268 I can see under the crows!" 791 00:44:06,352 --> 00:44:07,561 I start to turn... 792 00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:10,022 Because I'm convincing myself that if I turn, 793 00:44:10,105 --> 00:44:13,067 I'm seeing parts of the painting that don't really exist. 794 00:44:13,150 --> 00:44:15,944 Holy shit! 795 00:44:16,028 --> 00:44:17,488 Look at all this corn! 796 00:44:18,530 --> 00:44:21,450 All of a sudden, I feel like these birds are coming out at me, 797 00:44:21,533 --> 00:44:23,493 - and I'm in the middle of this cornfield. - Whoa! 798 00:44:23,535 --> 00:44:25,454 What the fuck? 799 00:44:25,537 --> 00:44:27,414 Now, this is a popular museum. 800 00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:29,291 Family, people are all there... 801 00:44:29,375 --> 00:44:33,253 and I'm standing maybe four inches away from the painting, 802 00:44:33,796 --> 00:44:35,673 almost upside down. 803 00:44:35,756 --> 00:44:38,092 Like this, like, "Yes, yes, yes..." 804 00:44:40,761 --> 00:44:45,057 And it's morphing and moving, I'm like, "Van Gogh, genius!" 805 00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:46,767 I get Van Gogh! 806 00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:48,477 I get Van Gogh! 807 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,106 Now I'm feeling a little bit too hot, I'm like, "It's hot in here, I'm sweating, 808 00:44:52,189 --> 00:44:53,399 I gotta leave this museum." 809 00:44:53,482 --> 00:44:56,068 I arrive back at the house that we're staying. 810 00:44:56,151 --> 00:44:57,277 And I go, "Guys... 811 00:44:57,903 --> 00:45:00,322 we need to get McDonald's." 812 00:45:00,406 --> 00:45:01,782 And everyone's like, "Yes!" 813 00:45:01,865 --> 00:45:04,705 I think my plan stemmed from the fact that we were in a foreign country, 814 00:45:04,743 --> 00:45:07,496 and we needed to ground ourselves with something American. 815 00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:09,206 So McDonald's was the way to go. 816 00:45:09,289 --> 00:45:10,624 And I go into McDonalds, 817 00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:13,001 they fill up a sack of burgers for me, 818 00:45:13,085 --> 00:45:14,837 I take it back to our house, 819 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,965 and I toss them out to everybody, everyone starts eating the burgers, 820 00:45:18,048 --> 00:45:21,009 and just like in Alice in Wonderland when she eats the pill, 821 00:45:21,093 --> 00:45:22,428 we all finish our burgers, 822 00:45:22,511 --> 00:45:25,556 and it just wears off, we're back to normal. 823 00:45:25,639 --> 00:45:29,017 And I was like, "Thank you, McDonald's. You saved us." 824 00:45:29,101 --> 00:45:32,104 Never had experience in McDonald's, because I'm not a fucking idiot. 825 00:45:32,187 --> 00:45:34,022 If there's anything antithetical 826 00:45:34,106 --> 00:45:36,608 to a trip on LSD, it's a McDonald's. 827 00:45:36,692 --> 00:45:38,527 Talk about yin and fuck-yang. 828 00:45:38,610 --> 00:45:42,489 You walk in there, and you realize, "I'm in the belly of the fucking beast. 829 00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:46,243 I have a soul, and I'm in a soulless cage." 830 00:45:56,378 --> 00:45:58,547 Hi, I'm Rob Corddry. 831 00:45:58,630 --> 00:46:00,215 A psychonaut. 832 00:46:01,216 --> 00:46:02,551 Screen Actors Guild. 833 00:46:02,634 --> 00:46:04,219 Once we were on mushrooms, 834 00:46:04,303 --> 00:46:05,929 and I sat in front of the mirror, 835 00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:07,264 tripping my balls off, 836 00:46:07,347 --> 00:46:08,515 high as a kite, 837 00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:11,143 just, like, staring at myself in the mirror. 838 00:46:13,103 --> 00:46:14,438 I had my shirt off, 839 00:46:14,521 --> 00:46:17,191 which is usually something that bugs me, 840 00:46:17,649 --> 00:46:21,361 but at this point, like, you don't have any body dysmorphia. 841 00:46:21,445 --> 00:46:24,198 You see things for the way they really are. 842 00:46:24,281 --> 00:46:27,493 No matter how much they sort of, like, shimmer and breathe. 843 00:46:27,826 --> 00:46:29,286 Your body's breathing anyway. 844 00:46:29,369 --> 00:46:31,997 And I'm, like, looking at it, my body, and my face, 845 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,292 for what it really, truly is. 846 00:46:35,375 --> 00:46:38,045 It... You know, my face looked completely different. 847 00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:41,173 My body, I understood it was a shell, 848 00:46:41,256 --> 00:46:43,884 And I felt inside me, the real me, not in the mirror, 849 00:46:43,967 --> 00:46:47,262 I felt bigger than my body, and I felt wider. 850 00:46:47,346 --> 00:46:48,889 And I felt, like, "This is it." 851 00:46:48,972 --> 00:46:51,475 Like, "We're part of everything, everything is connected." 852 00:46:51,558 --> 00:46:53,143 And then I'd look in the mirror, 853 00:46:53,227 --> 00:46:57,773 and I'd be like... I could see, it seemed, like... 854 00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:01,109 the whole world was me. 855 00:47:01,193 --> 00:47:04,947 I could see everything, everything was connected. All good. 856 00:47:05,030 --> 00:47:07,407 People always say don't look in the mirror when you're high, 857 00:47:07,491 --> 00:47:09,618 but I'm like, "Don't ever leave a mirror!" 858 00:47:14,665 --> 00:47:16,500 Do look in the mirror! 859 00:47:17,042 --> 00:47:19,002 I remember looking in the mirror. 860 00:47:19,086 --> 00:47:21,213 My face turned into a gargoyle. 861 00:47:21,630 --> 00:47:24,049 That shit was trippy. I was like, "Oh, shit." 862 00:47:31,598 --> 00:47:33,392 Growing up in an urban community, 863 00:47:33,475 --> 00:47:36,854 like the hood or some shit like that, we look at acid, like, 864 00:47:36,937 --> 00:47:42,901 "Man, that's like crack, or like PCP, angel dust, meth or some shit like that. 865 00:47:42,985 --> 00:47:44,611 The fuck you do with acid?" 866 00:47:45,028 --> 00:47:46,780 And then as you get older, you know, 867 00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:50,242 you start doing mushrooms and shit like that, and you realize that 868 00:47:50,325 --> 00:47:53,245 all it is is, like, fungus and mold, and, you know, 869 00:47:53,328 --> 00:47:56,540 this is just, like, some chill shit. 870 00:48:07,009 --> 00:48:11,513 I remember the first time I did acid. It was a couple of years back. 871 00:48:11,597 --> 00:48:12,931 I felt I was ready, 872 00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:15,309 ready to become one with the planet, 873 00:48:15,809 --> 00:48:16,935 the universe. 874 00:48:17,019 --> 00:48:19,688 It was crazy. It was with a beautiful female. 875 00:48:20,105 --> 00:48:22,149 She's the one who introduced me to it. 876 00:48:22,232 --> 00:48:26,361 All I remember is she had it on, like, crackers already. 877 00:48:26,445 --> 00:48:29,197 Unfortunately, by the time I got with her 878 00:48:29,281 --> 00:48:32,951 is exactly when the acid just started kicking in. 879 00:48:33,035 --> 00:48:36,163 And, you know, we gettin' jiggy and whatnot, right? 880 00:48:36,663 --> 00:48:37,664 It feels so good. 881 00:48:37,748 --> 00:48:40,626 Like, it's... Everything feels intensified. 882 00:48:40,709 --> 00:48:42,461 I'm seeing all type of shit. 883 00:48:42,544 --> 00:48:44,296 I'm feeling all type of shit. 884 00:48:44,630 --> 00:48:46,423 Colors are moving. I hear colors. 885 00:48:46,506 --> 00:48:47,841 I can taste the colors. 886 00:48:48,717 --> 00:48:51,637 Like, what the fuck does a color taste like, you know? 887 00:48:52,596 --> 00:48:53,972 And for some reason, 888 00:48:54,056 --> 00:48:56,266 everything she did to me just felt... 889 00:48:56,350 --> 00:48:57,434 amazing. 890 00:48:57,517 --> 00:48:59,019 Like, times two. 891 00:48:59,102 --> 00:49:00,354 Out of the ordinary. 892 00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:03,023 And, uh... This is a bit graphic, 893 00:49:04,399 --> 00:49:07,778 it's a bit vulgar, it's a bit raunchy, you feel me? 894 00:49:08,362 --> 00:49:09,529 You feel me, but... 895 00:49:09,988 --> 00:49:11,406 What can I say? It's life. 896 00:49:11,865 --> 00:49:12,866 No lie... 897 00:49:13,492 --> 00:49:15,494 A rainbow shot out of my dick. 898 00:49:15,911 --> 00:49:20,207 And it had a sound with it, like a piano or some shit like that. 899 00:49:22,542 --> 00:49:24,711 I have no idea why there was a rainbow... 900 00:49:25,379 --> 00:49:26,672 coming out of my penis. 901 00:49:27,381 --> 00:49:29,007 I don't even like rainbows. 902 00:49:29,591 --> 00:49:32,761 And I woke up the next day and I told... 903 00:49:34,054 --> 00:49:36,556 I told the homie, and I said, "Yo, 904 00:49:37,391 --> 00:49:40,018 I know what the answer to life is." 905 00:49:41,353 --> 00:49:42,646 And I said... 906 00:49:43,105 --> 00:49:44,898 "It's to love each other." 907 00:49:44,982 --> 00:49:45,982 He was like... 908 00:49:46,692 --> 00:49:48,902 "Word." 909 00:49:50,362 --> 00:49:52,489 That was my first time doing acid, man. 910 00:49:53,407 --> 00:49:55,242 But to each his own, because... 911 00:49:55,784 --> 00:49:58,537 I'm not a psychedelic advocate. Like... 912 00:49:58,620 --> 00:50:00,831 you know, I have a good time with it. 913 00:50:00,956 --> 00:50:03,000 It's not for everybody, let me say that. 914 00:50:03,083 --> 00:50:06,253 You know, I'm an artiste, it's my lifestyle. 915 00:50:07,212 --> 00:50:09,256 I'm on a, like, psychedelic, like, 916 00:50:10,090 --> 00:50:13,760 1960s rock, like, you know, like... 917 00:50:13,844 --> 00:50:15,470 The Castaways... 918 00:50:15,554 --> 00:50:17,180 Jefferson Airplane... 919 00:50:17,264 --> 00:50:20,517 The Rolling Stones had some shit, fucking Beatles, of course. 920 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:21,518 Jimi... 921 00:50:21,519 --> 00:50:24,479 Who sings the "Hurdy Gurdy Man," is that Donovan? 922 00:50:25,188 --> 00:50:28,859 A truly 1960s experience 923 00:50:28,942 --> 00:50:33,697 was, "Is there an answer to the suffering of the world?" 924 00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:37,451 Because until 1966 in October, 925 00:50:37,534 --> 00:50:39,619 LSD was actually legal, 926 00:50:39,703 --> 00:50:44,499 and was used in extraordinary, beneficial ways, as we all know. 927 00:50:45,042 --> 00:50:47,127 We know now, from documentation, 928 00:50:47,210 --> 00:50:49,004 how it helped so many people. 929 00:50:49,087 --> 00:50:50,881 Anxiety drops. 930 00:50:50,964 --> 00:50:54,801 People who are about to die, who get DMT, you know the story... 931 00:50:55,302 --> 00:50:57,888 They are given some psilocybin, 932 00:50:58,305 --> 00:51:00,724 and suddenly their anxiety disappears, 933 00:51:00,807 --> 00:51:02,392 because they now feel, 934 00:51:02,476 --> 00:51:03,560 "This is natural." 935 00:51:03,643 --> 00:51:05,854 Never did ayahuasca or DMT. 936 00:51:05,937 --> 00:51:08,065 I'm too scared, man. 937 00:51:08,148 --> 00:51:11,109 You know, I admit it, but maybe I'll get to the point one day 938 00:51:11,193 --> 00:51:12,652 when I feel brave enough to do it. 939 00:51:12,736 --> 00:51:15,989 DMT is, like, you know, that is the express ticket 940 00:51:16,073 --> 00:51:18,200 to, you know, the primordial ooze. 941 00:51:18,283 --> 00:51:21,203 If you wanna see what it is like to be just an organic being, 942 00:51:21,286 --> 00:51:24,581 absolutely watch your ego dissipate into nothingness, 943 00:51:24,664 --> 00:51:27,501 smoke some DMT, and you'll get there. 944 00:51:27,584 --> 00:51:29,384 You'll get there right away, and you will have 945 00:51:29,461 --> 00:51:32,672 direct contact with aliens, and colors, 946 00:51:32,756 --> 00:51:36,510 and ancient patterns, and sacred geometry, and... 947 00:51:37,469 --> 00:51:38,469 it's amazing. 948 00:51:38,804 --> 00:51:40,514 My name is Zach Leary, 949 00:51:40,597 --> 00:51:43,642 and I grew up with Timothy Leary. 950 00:51:43,725 --> 00:51:49,731 He was an American philosopher and psychologist of the late 20th century. 951 00:51:49,815 --> 00:51:53,401 The first time that my dad did psilocybin in Mexico, you know, 952 00:51:53,485 --> 00:51:55,654 his famous quote from the experience was, 953 00:51:55,737 --> 00:51:57,823 "I learned more in my four hours on mushrooms 954 00:51:57,906 --> 00:52:00,367 than I did in my previous 20 years of psychology." 955 00:52:00,951 --> 00:52:04,371 Naturally, the psychologists and psychiatrists want to use LSD 956 00:52:04,454 --> 00:52:05,831 in treating mental illness. 957 00:52:05,914 --> 00:52:09,918 I think that LSD will be the number one, uh... 958 00:52:10,001 --> 00:52:11,586 cure for mental illness 959 00:52:11,670 --> 00:52:14,297 when the psychologists know how to use it. 960 00:52:14,381 --> 00:52:16,633 And in 1963, he was... 961 00:52:17,175 --> 00:52:21,054 fired quite ceremoniously from Harvard University, 962 00:52:21,138 --> 00:52:25,559 for conducting psychedelic experiments with grad students. 963 00:52:25,642 --> 00:52:29,521 Timothy Leary, and Ram Dass, and, you know, um... 964 00:52:29,604 --> 00:52:32,399 Terence McKenna, and all these people who... 965 00:52:32,482 --> 00:52:35,485 have spent their lives exploring those realms, 966 00:52:35,569 --> 00:52:40,824 and then, they had also the knowledge and the genius to be able to study them, 967 00:52:40,907 --> 00:52:42,117 were just shut down. 968 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,411 And so, we fucking blew it. 969 00:52:44,494 --> 00:52:48,456 Well, I think it was a shame that the prior... 970 00:52:49,124 --> 00:52:51,793 generation of psychedelic investigators 971 00:52:51,877 --> 00:52:54,421 were abruptly stopped in their tracks, 972 00:52:54,504 --> 00:52:59,551 because they were onto some very important discoveries. 973 00:52:59,634 --> 00:53:02,554 And they were developing new treatment models, 974 00:53:02,637 --> 00:53:05,807 which we feel today should still be explored, 975 00:53:05,891 --> 00:53:11,229 because they might offer a great deal of promise and hope 976 00:53:11,313 --> 00:53:14,774 for people who have suffered from conditions 977 00:53:14,858 --> 00:53:18,612 for which mainstream psychiatry may not have much to offer. 978 00:53:18,695 --> 00:53:22,490 There are many basic questions about LSD which remain unanswered. 979 00:53:22,991 --> 00:53:25,076 There's much work to be done. 980 00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,580 A good deal of important research lies in the future. 981 00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,291 Hopefully, someday we'll have the answers. 982 00:53:31,374 --> 00:53:33,168 People always ask... 983 00:53:33,251 --> 00:53:38,632 what my best experiences were taking psychedelics with my dad. 984 00:53:38,715 --> 00:53:41,027 I mean, we had some good ones, like Grateful Dead concerts. 985 00:53:41,051 --> 00:53:43,011 Yeah, the visuals were really, like... 986 00:53:43,094 --> 00:53:48,433 Gosh, I remember Jerry Garcia's head sort of swelling to ten times the size... 987 00:53:48,516 --> 00:53:51,561 Going to a Grateful Dead show without drugs was okay. 988 00:53:54,189 --> 00:53:57,025 But with drugs, it was pretty good. 989 00:54:00,070 --> 00:54:01,446 Grateful Dead shows. 990 00:54:01,529 --> 00:54:05,158 The greatest place to trip, because it was very safe. 991 00:54:05,575 --> 00:54:08,078 There are facilities, 992 00:54:08,161 --> 00:54:11,122 um... and kind of makeshift areas, 993 00:54:11,206 --> 00:54:12,791 just for people who are tripping. 994 00:54:12,874 --> 00:54:14,876 As much as I didn't care for the music, 995 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,003 I've probably seen the Dead... 996 00:54:17,087 --> 00:54:19,756 I mean, yeah, I gotta say, like 11 or 12 times. 997 00:54:20,090 --> 00:54:21,549 I liked Jerry Garcia. 998 00:54:21,633 --> 00:54:23,885 I can admit that publicly, I'm not ashamed of that. 999 00:54:23,969 --> 00:54:27,597 I appreciate the Grateful Dead. I mean, I went to college, I'm white... 1000 00:54:27,681 --> 00:54:30,392 I went on stage with the Grateful Dead, 1001 00:54:30,475 --> 00:54:34,437 and fell asleep in front of one of the speakers. 1002 00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:42,862 This is how you spot a guy at a concert having a good trip, this is how they walk, 1003 00:54:42,946 --> 00:54:47,242 because they're leading with their head, they're like... "Meeting life head on!" 1004 00:54:49,744 --> 00:54:53,498 But this is how you spot a guy tripping that's having a bad trip: 1005 00:54:53,832 --> 00:54:55,959 He's leading with his knees, he's like... 1006 00:54:58,211 --> 00:54:59,296 He wants the knees, 1007 00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:03,300 he wants everything but the head to meet the bad, bad shit head-on. 1008 00:55:03,383 --> 00:55:06,094 One time, uh... I had figured the wrong amount, 1009 00:55:06,511 --> 00:55:09,973 and I had taken so much that I looked over at Mickey and said, 1010 00:55:10,056 --> 00:55:12,326 "I can't finish the set, I gotta go to the dressing room." 1011 00:55:12,350 --> 00:55:14,352 My cymbals were melting, and... 1012 00:55:15,020 --> 00:55:17,355 You know, you can take too much, and that's a mistake. 1013 00:55:17,439 --> 00:55:21,985 I came home, and I was still real high. You don't come down instantly, of course. 1014 00:55:22,068 --> 00:55:27,073 And I sat down politely at my parents' dining room table, 1015 00:55:27,157 --> 00:55:29,237 and Mama's... It was breakfast, sun had just come up, 1016 00:55:29,284 --> 00:55:30,952 and she was serving breakfast, of course, 1017 00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:34,039 and served me a plate of eggs that looked like they were doing 1018 00:55:34,122 --> 00:55:36,124 some kind of new modern dance on the stage, 1019 00:55:36,207 --> 00:55:38,710 some of this new gyration stuff going on... 1020 00:55:38,793 --> 00:55:41,588 Everything's moving around, the sausages were dancing, 1021 00:55:41,671 --> 00:55:43,715 making little buildings and things, 1022 00:55:43,798 --> 00:55:45,884 "How's breakfast, Billy?" "Fine..." 1023 00:55:45,967 --> 00:55:48,261 I couldn't eat it. 1024 00:55:49,596 --> 00:55:52,140 And now, back to Bad Trip. 1025 00:55:54,726 --> 00:55:59,606 Do you like things happening to you that you wouldn't like happening to you? 1026 00:55:59,689 --> 00:56:00,899 Of course you don't. 1027 00:56:00,982 --> 00:56:05,070 Well, that's exactly what will happen when you go to a drug party. 1028 00:56:05,487 --> 00:56:08,406 Because at every drug party, there is a prankster. 1029 00:56:08,782 --> 00:56:13,620 His mission: to get you high, whether you want to be or not. 1030 00:56:13,703 --> 00:56:14,704 His scheme: 1031 00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:16,539 the dose. 1032 00:56:24,798 --> 00:56:26,007 - Guys. - Come on! 1033 00:56:26,091 --> 00:56:27,217 Orange soda! 1034 00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:29,135 - Take a sip! - Drink it! 1035 00:56:29,219 --> 00:56:30,595 - Drink it. - Take a sip. 1036 00:56:30,678 --> 00:56:35,058 Well, if they're not going to enjoy these fresh sodas, I am. 1037 00:56:35,141 --> 00:56:36,726 Yeah. Me too. 1038 00:56:43,900 --> 00:56:47,570 Whoa, why is everything like an electric rainbow? 1039 00:56:47,654 --> 00:56:51,116 Yeah! I can see the whole universe. 1040 00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:52,700 It sounds like you guys are tripping. 1041 00:56:52,784 --> 00:56:55,078 No... We didn't take any drugs. 1042 00:56:55,161 --> 00:56:57,622 That's not something I would ever do. Oh! 1043 00:56:58,456 --> 00:56:59,582 Did you see that dragon? 1044 00:56:59,666 --> 00:57:02,001 Are you sure you're not tripping? 1045 00:57:02,085 --> 00:57:03,962 I'm sure they are tripping... 1046 00:57:04,379 --> 00:57:05,922 because they've been dosed! 1047 00:57:06,005 --> 00:57:08,967 I put ten tabs of LSD in their sodas. 1048 00:57:11,761 --> 00:57:12,971 I never wanted this! 1049 00:57:13,054 --> 00:57:14,931 I'll never be the same! 1050 00:57:21,688 --> 00:57:23,648 I feel it's really wrong to dose anybody, 1051 00:57:23,731 --> 00:57:26,818 because you're taking over their psychology. 1052 00:57:26,901 --> 00:57:30,113 You're responsible for how they're going to be for 12 hours, 1053 00:57:30,196 --> 00:57:33,783 and if they haven't taken acid before, you don't really have a right to do that. 1054 00:57:34,242 --> 00:57:37,996 When we took the notorious wonder drug LSD, 1055 00:57:38,746 --> 00:57:41,541 we were having dinner with our dentist. 1056 00:57:43,460 --> 00:57:45,795 And he put it in our coffee, and never told us. 1057 00:57:45,879 --> 00:57:47,547 And we'd never heard of it. 1058 00:57:47,630 --> 00:57:51,676 I mean, it's a good job we hadn't, because there's been so much paranoia, 1059 00:57:51,759 --> 00:57:55,430 uh... created around the drug that people now, if they take it, 1060 00:57:55,513 --> 00:57:57,891 they're already on a bad trip before they start. 1061 00:57:57,974 --> 00:58:00,977 When the realization came that I was on acid... 1062 00:58:01,352 --> 00:58:04,772 bad trip, like a dark tunnel. I just shut down. 1063 00:58:14,741 --> 00:58:18,870 Hi, I'm Rosie Perez, AKA Puerto Rican icon. Holla! 1064 00:58:19,329 --> 00:58:22,707 It was New Year's Eve in the late '80s. 1065 00:58:22,790 --> 00:58:24,375 One of my sisters and I, 1066 00:58:24,459 --> 00:58:28,796 we were going to an after-hours club in Alphabet City. 1067 00:58:29,214 --> 00:58:32,509 They never sold alcohol or anything at this club. 1068 00:58:32,592 --> 00:58:36,054 It was all like, you know, "We're all into the music and dance, 1069 00:58:36,137 --> 00:58:38,389 and we're into our bodies, and health, and whatever," 1070 00:58:38,473 --> 00:58:41,726 so they would only have punch there, or fruit. 1071 00:58:41,809 --> 00:58:44,145 So we get to the bar, we see the bartender, 1072 00:58:44,229 --> 00:58:46,064 and he's like, "Oh, what's up, girls? 1073 00:58:46,147 --> 00:58:48,149 You wanna get hooked up?" We're like, "Yeah, sure!" 1074 00:58:48,233 --> 00:58:50,985 And he goes, "Yeah?" I was like, "Yeah, alright." 1075 00:58:51,110 --> 00:58:52,987 So, he gives us this punch. 1076 00:58:53,446 --> 00:58:55,657 And we drink it down, and we start dancing, 1077 00:58:55,740 --> 00:58:57,992 sweating, go back... 1078 00:58:58,076 --> 00:58:59,661 "Can we have another punch?" 1079 00:58:59,744 --> 00:59:00,870 He's like, "For real?" 1080 00:59:00,954 --> 00:59:03,915 I was like, "Yeah, it's really good!" He goes, "Alright..." 1081 00:59:03,998 --> 00:59:05,083 We drink another glass. 1082 00:59:05,166 --> 00:59:06,584 All of a sudden... 1083 00:59:06,668 --> 00:59:10,338 the entire nightclub started to expand. 1084 00:59:10,421 --> 00:59:13,216 The floorboards... The wooden floorboards 1085 00:59:13,299 --> 00:59:17,428 were waving as if they were water on the high seas, 1086 00:59:17,512 --> 00:59:18,888 and I'm looking at it, 1087 00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:22,475 going, "This is beautiful... Oh, my gosh!" 1088 00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:23,893 So I went on my back, 1089 00:59:23,977 --> 00:59:26,437 and I started doing the backstroke on the floorboards, 1090 00:59:26,521 --> 00:59:28,940 because they were waves, of course, right? 1091 00:59:29,023 --> 00:59:31,859 And everything's just beautiful, and everybody's watching me, 1092 00:59:31,943 --> 00:59:33,736 and I'm just, like, in my glory, 1093 00:59:33,820 --> 00:59:35,905 and then all of a sudden my sister Sally walks over 1094 00:59:35,989 --> 00:59:38,116 and goes, "Your tits are out." And I went, "Oh..." 1095 00:59:38,199 --> 00:59:42,579 And I looked down, and I was like, "Oh, my God! 1096 00:59:42,662 --> 00:59:43,913 They look gorgeous!" 1097 00:59:45,415 --> 00:59:47,000 And they looked beautiful, 1098 00:59:47,083 --> 00:59:50,253 and I was in awe of their beauty and their size. 1099 00:59:50,336 --> 00:59:52,380 But then I started looking around, 1100 00:59:52,463 --> 00:59:55,091 and I thought everybody was looking at me, right? 1101 00:59:55,174 --> 00:59:56,467 And I got real paranoid. 1102 00:59:56,551 --> 00:59:59,929 So I kept trying to cover them up, because I couldn't find my top, 1103 01:00:00,013 --> 01:00:02,724 because my top was floating in the wood water, right? 1104 01:00:02,807 --> 01:00:04,684 So I'm covering my breasts like this, 1105 01:00:04,767 --> 01:00:08,938 and my titty fat kept squeezing between my fingers. 1106 01:00:09,022 --> 01:00:10,565 Right? And so it was just like... 1107 01:00:13,818 --> 01:00:16,613 My sister comes over, and she starts cracking up. 1108 01:00:16,696 --> 01:00:18,740 She goes, "Come on, we gotta get out of here!" 1109 01:00:18,823 --> 01:00:20,908 We get to the house, get upstairs, 1110 01:00:20,992 --> 01:00:23,578 and when I laid into the bed, I became the bed. 1111 01:00:23,661 --> 01:00:25,204 My body was the bed. 1112 01:00:25,955 --> 01:00:29,500 And I'm trying to flip myself over, like, my body, that's the mattress, 1113 01:00:29,584 --> 01:00:31,628 and I'm waddling down the hallway, 1114 01:00:31,711 --> 01:00:34,756 still didn't occur to me that I was high on acid. 1115 01:00:34,839 --> 01:00:37,383 And I slid, 1116 01:00:37,467 --> 01:00:40,178 and I'm thinking that the hallway has now become a slide, 1117 01:00:40,261 --> 01:00:43,806 and I'm sliding down the hallway, all the way down. 1118 01:00:43,890 --> 01:00:46,559 I went, "I'm a bed...!" 1119 01:00:46,643 --> 01:00:50,063 And I slid, and I... 1120 01:00:50,772 --> 01:00:53,775 busted my ankle on the porcelain bathtub. 1121 01:00:53,858 --> 01:00:56,361 Then I thought my foot was this humongous thing, 1122 01:00:56,444 --> 01:00:58,446 and it just kept growing, and growing, and growing. 1123 01:00:58,529 --> 01:01:00,448 I look up, and my boyfriend, 1124 01:01:00,531 --> 01:01:03,534 he tells me, "You're high on acid." 1125 01:01:05,828 --> 01:01:10,541 My first thought wasn't, "Oh, my God, I'm high on acid." 1126 01:01:10,625 --> 01:01:12,669 My first thought was, "Oh, my God, 1127 01:01:12,752 --> 01:01:15,463 I hope God doesn't punish me because I'm high on acid." 1128 01:01:16,631 --> 01:01:19,717 Because I just thought, you know, "He has... I'm going to hell. 1129 01:01:19,801 --> 01:01:21,386 I'm going straight to hell." 1130 01:01:21,469 --> 01:01:24,389 Prior to this, I didn't drink, 1131 01:01:24,472 --> 01:01:25,598 I didn't smoke weed, 1132 01:01:25,682 --> 01:01:27,100 I didn't smoke cigarettes... 1133 01:01:27,183 --> 01:01:29,769 I did nothing. My high was dancing. 1134 01:01:33,231 --> 01:01:35,733 When you go to a nightclub and someone offers you a free drink, 1135 01:01:35,817 --> 01:01:37,610 ask what the fuck is in it. 1136 01:01:39,779 --> 01:01:40,737 Yeah. 1137 01:01:40,738 --> 01:01:43,158 The other part of it that I got from it 1138 01:01:43,241 --> 01:01:46,536 is that I really, really needed to seek therapy 1139 01:01:46,619 --> 01:01:49,539 in regards to my Catholic upbringing. 1140 01:01:49,622 --> 01:01:53,501 God forbid, I never want to be burdened with that much guilt 1141 01:01:53,584 --> 01:01:55,002 ever again in my life. 1142 01:01:55,086 --> 01:01:56,170 So, you know what? 1143 01:01:56,254 --> 01:01:59,257 I guess being on acid did kinda do me good. 1144 01:01:59,674 --> 01:02:03,928 The mental effects of this material are tremendously variable. 1145 01:02:04,011 --> 01:02:06,472 They are completely unpredictable. 1146 01:02:07,390 --> 01:02:10,393 You cannot tell for any given individual 1147 01:02:10,476 --> 01:02:13,229 if he's going to have a good trip or a bad trip. 1148 01:02:14,856 --> 01:02:17,608 I don't think they've been able to identify the foci in the brain 1149 01:02:17,692 --> 01:02:19,736 that might be responsible for a bad trip. 1150 01:02:19,819 --> 01:02:24,157 But internally what's going on is a sense of disorientation, 1151 01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:25,283 confusion, 1152 01:02:25,366 --> 01:02:29,120 a sense of being overwhelmed by stimuli, 1153 01:02:29,203 --> 01:02:33,458 high levels of anxiety, even bordering or going into paranoia. 1154 01:02:33,541 --> 01:02:36,836 I've done a lot of acid, I've done shrooms, I've done speed... 1155 01:02:36,919 --> 01:02:38,212 I don't know what this was... 1156 01:02:38,296 --> 01:02:39,881 It was very speedy... 1157 01:02:39,964 --> 01:02:41,174 - very speedy... - Oh, yeah! 1158 01:02:41,257 --> 01:02:43,342 ...but you also hallucinated. 1159 01:02:43,426 --> 01:02:46,596 - It turned the world around you... - Yeah. 1160 01:02:46,679 --> 01:02:49,432 - ...into an opera of your nightmares. - Yeah. 1161 01:02:49,849 --> 01:02:51,934 Everything in my brain just switched, 1162 01:02:52,018 --> 01:02:54,979 and everything went drastically downhill, like... 1163 01:02:55,605 --> 01:02:56,898 at an incredible rate. 1164 01:02:56,981 --> 01:02:59,626 Things would turn into glass and crystal, and then they would break, 1165 01:02:59,650 --> 01:03:02,528 then form back up in front of your eyes, and then break again. 1166 01:03:02,612 --> 01:03:04,739 My legs started to go numb. 1167 01:03:04,822 --> 01:03:08,785 I started to feel my heart beat in my chest, really quickly, 1168 01:03:08,868 --> 01:03:11,662 and it felt like it was going to pound through my rib cage. 1169 01:03:11,746 --> 01:03:14,957 I didn't want to say anything to my wife, 1170 01:03:15,041 --> 01:03:20,171 because I didn't want her to affirm how strong this was, 1171 01:03:20,254 --> 01:03:22,673 and then my paranoia would increase even more, 1172 01:03:22,757 --> 01:03:25,092 making the nightmare that much more intense. 1173 01:03:25,176 --> 01:03:27,762 I saw violence, I saw bloodshed, 1174 01:03:27,845 --> 01:03:30,223 I saw warfare, I saw terrorism, 1175 01:03:30,306 --> 01:03:32,642 I saw beheadings, 1176 01:03:32,725 --> 01:03:34,268 I saw hell. 1177 01:03:34,352 --> 01:03:37,230 At one point, I remember looking out the window of the car, 1178 01:03:37,313 --> 01:03:40,233 and there was a little girl in the backseat of the car next to us, 1179 01:03:40,316 --> 01:03:42,819 like, looking at me, like, really intensely. 1180 01:03:42,902 --> 01:03:46,781 This little girl can save me. This little girl can get help. 1181 01:03:46,864 --> 01:03:48,908 She can get me out of this situation 1182 01:03:48,991 --> 01:03:50,868 She was a child. She was innocent. 1183 01:03:50,952 --> 01:03:53,663 I remember trying to communicate to her with my eyes, 1184 01:03:53,746 --> 01:03:57,834 like I was a hostage, like, "Get me outta here." 1185 01:03:57,917 --> 01:04:01,754 I didn't want to talk, 'cause I didn't want my friend to hear me and kill me. 1186 01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:05,800 And so I was like... I can see there's a glimmer of hope. 1187 01:04:06,300 --> 01:04:09,095 Finally, the little girl, like, flips me off, 1188 01:04:09,178 --> 01:04:12,056 and then in my head, I'm like, "I think everybody is in on this. 1189 01:04:12,139 --> 01:04:14,392 Everybody is trying to kill me!" 1190 01:04:14,934 --> 01:04:16,185 Some people... 1191 01:04:17,103 --> 01:04:19,939 will reach the peak of these mental effects right here, 1192 01:04:20,022 --> 01:04:21,774 and they will stay there. 1193 01:04:23,484 --> 01:04:27,113 From here on out, these people are insane. 1194 01:04:27,446 --> 01:04:29,282 Uh... I'm Lewis Black. 1195 01:04:30,992 --> 01:04:32,785 And I'm still Lewis Black. 1196 01:04:32,869 --> 01:04:35,454 That's all I need to say is "I'm Lewis Black," right? 1197 01:04:45,506 --> 01:04:47,717 I did acid when I was about 20. 1198 01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:51,804 I took it in an apartment, in a place called Hyattsville, Maryland. 1199 01:04:51,888 --> 01:04:54,974 When you reach this point, you're gone, 1200 01:04:55,057 --> 01:04:58,978 and the point I got to was that I couldn't remember my name. 1201 01:05:00,021 --> 01:05:04,066 And it's... I can't remember my name at all. 1202 01:05:05,693 --> 01:05:09,655 One of the things that is a linchpin between you and those around you 1203 01:05:09,739 --> 01:05:11,032 is your fucking name. 1204 01:05:11,115 --> 01:05:12,742 It's kind of really important. 1205 01:05:12,825 --> 01:05:14,952 The shortest distance between two points 1206 01:05:15,036 --> 01:05:17,872 is for me to just turn to one of them and say, "What's my name?" 1207 01:05:17,955 --> 01:05:20,875 But you can't, in the middle of an acid trip, 1208 01:05:20,958 --> 01:05:24,462 turn to your friends and ask them what your name is. 1209 01:05:24,545 --> 01:05:28,299 Now, I don't know what acid etiquette is, but I just thought, "You don't..." 1210 01:05:28,382 --> 01:05:32,553 They're having fun. There's no reason that I should destroy their fun. 1211 01:05:32,637 --> 01:05:36,432 Nor should I bring up something that would show as if I'm in trouble, 1212 01:05:36,515 --> 01:05:38,809 so they would feel like they had to take care of me, 1213 01:05:38,893 --> 01:05:40,394 which might even be worse. 1214 01:05:40,478 --> 01:05:42,647 So, now I sat with a dictionary, 1215 01:05:42,730 --> 01:05:47,109 looking for hints of what my name might be. 1216 01:05:50,863 --> 01:05:53,115 This goes on for half an hour, 1217 01:05:53,199 --> 01:05:56,911 which, in LSD time, is probably 26 years. 1218 01:05:57,286 --> 01:05:59,664 I reached into my pocket, 1219 01:05:59,747 --> 01:06:02,166 'cause I realized that I had a wallet, 1220 01:06:02,792 --> 01:06:04,377 and that I could find my name. 1221 01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:07,046 And, truly, my next thought was... 1222 01:06:07,129 --> 01:06:10,257 I was afraid to open my wallet because I thought, 1223 01:06:10,341 --> 01:06:12,551 "What if there's nothing in there but Monopoly cards?" 1224 01:06:18,265 --> 01:06:20,810 No! 1225 01:06:20,893 --> 01:06:24,188 First it terrified me, and then I couldn't stop laughing, 1226 01:06:24,271 --> 01:06:26,065 and then I found my name again. 1227 01:06:28,484 --> 01:06:30,653 And then things kind of got back on track. 1228 01:06:31,529 --> 01:06:32,529 Guys! 1229 01:06:33,406 --> 01:06:34,949 My name is Lewis Black. 1230 01:06:39,412 --> 01:06:40,955 I've seen people bug out. 1231 01:06:41,038 --> 01:06:43,598 So that's the only reason why I don't recommend it for everybody. 1232 01:06:43,624 --> 01:06:45,918 I'd be lying if I said it's for everybody, it's not. 1233 01:06:46,002 --> 01:06:48,421 "Just give it to me, yeah, I'm ready, let's go!" 1234 01:06:48,504 --> 01:06:50,464 I was so not ready to take acid. 1235 01:06:50,548 --> 01:06:52,717 It was a huge mistake. 1236 01:07:03,644 --> 01:07:06,605 In retrospect, I didn't realize how much it was going to change my life. 1237 01:07:06,689 --> 01:07:09,191 Because it really changed my life for a long time. 1238 01:07:09,316 --> 01:07:12,486 I just thought, "Alright, here we go, this is gonna be great." 1239 01:07:12,570 --> 01:07:16,615 I think we'd seen Hair recently, which was a big influence. 1240 01:07:16,699 --> 01:07:19,618 ♪ LSD ♪ 1241 01:07:19,702 --> 01:07:22,371 ♪ LSD ♪ 1242 01:07:26,792 --> 01:07:31,088 Well, I was hoping for some sort of psychedelic, uh... revelation, 1243 01:07:31,172 --> 01:07:33,424 uh, kind of Hair-like, you know, 1244 01:07:33,507 --> 01:07:36,510 with just amazing sort of imagery, 1245 01:07:36,594 --> 01:07:41,015 and just, you know... just sort of some sort of opening 1246 01:07:41,098 --> 01:07:43,726 into some sort of other form of consciousness. 1247 01:07:43,809 --> 01:07:46,562 And it just... It was not that at all. 1248 01:07:46,645 --> 01:07:50,983 It was, uh, just fear and anxiety... 1249 01:07:51,692 --> 01:07:55,237 being... Just being amplified. 1250 01:07:55,321 --> 01:07:57,740 Which is not, you know, I... like, who needs that? 1251 01:07:57,823 --> 01:07:59,658 Who needs to take a drug to have that happen? 1252 01:08:00,785 --> 01:08:02,203 So I took one, 1253 01:08:02,286 --> 01:08:05,081 half an hour goes by, 45 minutes go by, 1254 01:08:05,164 --> 01:08:06,415 an hour goes by... 1255 01:08:06,499 --> 01:08:09,335 We're hanging out, and, of course, nothing's happening. 1256 01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:11,378 Another half-hour goes by. 1257 01:08:11,462 --> 01:08:15,257 Now it's an hour and a half, and nothing's happening, so, of course... 1258 01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:17,384 I say to him, "We gotta take another." 1259 01:08:17,468 --> 01:08:20,513 So we took another, and then something happened. 1260 01:08:20,596 --> 01:08:23,224 Immediately, I started to freak out and get really scared. 1261 01:08:23,307 --> 01:08:24,642 I started looking at my hand, 1262 01:08:24,725 --> 01:08:27,937 doing the cliche thing of, like, pondering what my hand was. 1263 01:08:28,020 --> 01:08:31,148 Isn't there always that thing of just, like, staring at your hand? 1264 01:08:31,398 --> 01:08:35,945 Or, like, your thumb, and, like, seeing the whole universe in your thumb, 1265 01:08:36,028 --> 01:08:37,028 that kind of thing...? 1266 01:08:37,029 --> 01:08:40,950 What is going on in your brain when you are tripping? 1267 01:08:41,492 --> 01:08:45,746 Well, roughly 10% of your brain is consumed by sound and color, 1268 01:08:45,830 --> 01:08:48,874 another 10% by the concept of time, 1269 01:08:48,958 --> 01:08:52,336 which has been known to speed up and/or slow down. 1270 01:08:53,003 --> 01:08:54,588 And the other 80%? 1271 01:08:55,548 --> 01:08:57,091 Staring at your hand. 1272 01:08:59,176 --> 01:09:00,845 Whoa, that's cool... 1273 01:09:01,345 --> 01:09:03,806 I'm freaking out. I said, "Let's just go to my house." 1274 01:09:03,889 --> 01:09:07,059 And we were walking towards where they blow up the balloon animals 1275 01:09:07,143 --> 01:09:08,602 for the Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1276 01:09:08,686 --> 01:09:11,313 and I started to trip out on that idea. 1277 01:09:11,397 --> 01:09:14,150 Evil... giant... inflated characters 1278 01:09:14,233 --> 01:09:17,736 were flipping up and coming out of 77th Street. 1279 01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:19,488 I was a big Ghostbusters fan, 1280 01:09:19,572 --> 01:09:22,241 and so the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man image 1281 01:09:22,324 --> 01:09:25,828 of him coming down Central Park West was sort of in my mind... 1282 01:09:25,911 --> 01:09:31,584 and then very quickly realizing that I had no idea where I was, 1283 01:09:31,667 --> 01:09:32,667 who I was, 1284 01:09:32,710 --> 01:09:35,796 or what this whole... the whole context of life was. 1285 01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,549 I decided that I needed to talk to my parents 1286 01:09:38,632 --> 01:09:40,593 to tell them what was happening to me. 1287 01:09:40,676 --> 01:09:43,929 And my parents were out of town, filming a Love Boat episode. 1288 01:09:44,013 --> 01:09:45,639 ♪ The Love Boat ♪ 1289 01:09:47,099 --> 01:09:49,810 ♪ Soon we'll be making another... ♪ 1290 01:09:49,894 --> 01:09:54,648 I called Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara on the phone... 1291 01:09:55,441 --> 01:09:58,027 ...and I said, "Dad, I took some acid." 1292 01:09:58,110 --> 01:10:00,821 And he said, "What? What is acid?" 1293 01:10:01,155 --> 01:10:04,867 I think he might have thought I drank some battery acid or something. 1294 01:10:04,950 --> 01:10:07,453 It wasn't like my dad was Jerry Garcia. 1295 01:10:07,536 --> 01:10:08,787 He's Jerry Stiller. 1296 01:10:08,871 --> 01:10:10,372 And I said, "LSD." 1297 01:10:10,456 --> 01:10:11,916 And he's like, "Oh, LSD." 1298 01:10:11,999 --> 01:10:14,251 And I could hear him processing it. 1299 01:10:14,335 --> 01:10:15,669 I think the immediate thought was 1300 01:10:15,753 --> 01:10:17,963 I think he was thinking he'd failed as a parent. 1301 01:10:18,047 --> 01:10:20,466 I think that was what was probably going through his mind. 1302 01:10:20,549 --> 01:10:22,384 And then my dad said, 1303 01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:24,678 "I understand what you're going through. 1304 01:10:24,762 --> 01:10:28,515 When I was ten years old, I smoked a Pall Mall cigarette, 1305 01:10:28,599 --> 01:10:30,351 and I was sick for two days." 1306 01:10:30,434 --> 01:10:33,771 And I said, "No, Dad, that's not what I'm going through. 1307 01:10:33,854 --> 01:10:35,522 This is a whole different experience." 1308 01:10:35,606 --> 01:10:38,859 I tried to explain to him what it was, and he basically said... 1309 01:10:38,943 --> 01:10:42,613 He just said it's going to be okay, which actually was really... sweet. 1310 01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:47,493 When someone consumes a drug, and they feel they're going crazy, 1311 01:10:47,576 --> 01:10:49,828 the biggest fear is, "Oh, my God, 1312 01:10:49,912 --> 01:10:52,998 I'm never going to return to being myself again. 1313 01:10:53,082 --> 01:10:54,875 I'm always going to be crazy." 1314 01:10:54,959 --> 01:10:58,504 "My brain is broken, and I'm never, ever coming back." 1315 01:10:58,587 --> 01:11:00,297 "Maybe this is just my brain now. 1316 01:11:00,381 --> 01:11:02,508 And this is now how the world actually is." 1317 01:11:02,591 --> 01:11:04,051 And that's... That can be scary. 1318 01:11:04,134 --> 01:11:05,761 You know, "This isn't going well. 1319 01:11:05,844 --> 01:11:08,264 I want this to end. How do we make this end?" 1320 01:11:08,347 --> 01:11:09,390 "Oh, my God. 1321 01:11:09,473 --> 01:11:11,225 This is never going to end. 1322 01:11:11,308 --> 01:11:13,811 I'm going to go into a mental institution," 1323 01:11:13,894 --> 01:11:18,399 and then I would see my mother's face in the window of the padded cell, 1324 01:11:18,482 --> 01:11:19,650 bawling her eyes out. 1325 01:11:19,733 --> 01:11:22,528 You cannot coax a person out of their bad trip. 1326 01:11:22,611 --> 01:11:26,198 And once it's in their system, it takes its own time. 1327 01:11:26,282 --> 01:11:28,158 The most important intervention you can make 1328 01:11:28,242 --> 01:11:32,204 is just to reassure them that they're experiencing this altered state, 1329 01:11:32,288 --> 01:11:33,664 as frightening as it is, 1330 01:11:33,747 --> 01:11:36,208 but they're experiencing it because they ingested a compound. 1331 01:11:36,292 --> 01:11:38,168 The bad news is they're in a scary place, 1332 01:11:38,252 --> 01:11:40,504 but the good news is it's going to be time-limited. 1333 01:11:40,587 --> 01:11:43,424 I think the first time I had such an experience, 1334 01:11:43,507 --> 01:11:48,887 I had those kind of naive... feelings. You know, "Maybe I won't be normal again." 1335 01:11:48,971 --> 01:11:51,890 But I've had enough experiences to realize that that's not true. 1336 01:11:51,974 --> 01:11:54,101 When in doubt, zoom out. 1337 01:11:54,184 --> 01:11:58,314 Um... If you're fearful of something, you just need to zoom away from it, 1338 01:11:58,397 --> 01:12:01,317 so you can see the larger context, and go, "Okay, that's not a big deal." 1339 01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:03,027 Things get scary. 1340 01:12:03,110 --> 01:12:05,821 But that's why it's important to remember you're high. 1341 01:12:05,904 --> 01:12:07,281 It's not reality. 1342 01:12:07,364 --> 01:12:09,408 I'm literally just falling in my mind, 1343 01:12:09,491 --> 01:12:11,371 and I'm like, "I gotta go to the emergency room. 1344 01:12:11,410 --> 01:12:12,703 I can't handle this anymore." 1345 01:12:12,786 --> 01:12:14,997 There's one of those dudes sitting in front of me, 1346 01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,541 who's, like, you used to see them at Dead shows, 1347 01:12:17,624 --> 01:12:19,960 they've clearly been on too many trips. 1348 01:12:20,044 --> 01:12:22,504 They sort of move at a different frequency than other people. 1349 01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:25,883 They're like, "Hey, man." They've got this weird... you know. 1350 01:12:25,966 --> 01:12:29,053 So I just tap him on the shoulder, and I look at him, and go, 1351 01:12:29,136 --> 01:12:31,930 "Pretty soon, Jerry's gonna come out, 1352 01:12:32,014 --> 01:12:35,434 and him and his guitar are gonna be, like, one thing." 1353 01:12:35,517 --> 01:12:37,436 And this guy just looks at me and he goes... 1354 01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:40,814 "Just hang on, man." 1355 01:12:41,273 --> 01:12:44,276 And he turns back around, and I was like, "Okay." 1356 01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:47,404 And that was, like, the best advice I ever got. And I use it to this day. 1357 01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,243 Just hang on, man. 1358 01:12:53,660 --> 01:12:54,703 Thanks, Fred. 1359 01:12:56,538 --> 01:13:00,209 And now for the horrifying conclusion of Bad Trip. 1360 01:13:00,501 --> 01:13:02,002 Knock, knock, knock. 1361 01:13:02,086 --> 01:13:03,170 "Who is it?" 1362 01:13:03,253 --> 01:13:05,089 "It's a deranged drifter 1363 01:13:05,172 --> 01:13:08,008 who wants to torture you for the next 12 hours, 1364 01:13:08,092 --> 01:13:10,594 by slowly peeling your skin off your body, 1365 01:13:10,677 --> 01:13:13,305 then plucking out your horror-filled eyeballs 1366 01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:16,016 and feeding them to you on a soft pretzel roll 1367 01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:18,018 made of your own epidermis." 1368 01:13:18,102 --> 01:13:19,353 "Oh, sure, great! 1369 01:13:19,436 --> 01:13:20,437 Come on in!" 1370 01:13:20,521 --> 01:13:22,022 Sounds crazy, right? 1371 01:13:22,106 --> 01:13:24,066 Well, that's exactly what you're doing 1372 01:13:24,149 --> 01:13:26,276 when you open your brain, the door, 1373 01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:29,446 to hallucinogenics, the deranged drifter. 1374 01:13:30,072 --> 01:13:31,949 Let's check in with Emily and her friends 1375 01:13:32,032 --> 01:13:35,160 now that they have willingly agreed to have their brains dissected, 1376 01:13:35,244 --> 01:13:36,495 metaphorically, 1377 01:13:36,578 --> 01:13:40,040 by the deranged psycho of psychedelics. 1378 01:13:45,295 --> 01:13:47,756 We definitely made the right choice getting out of that party. 1379 01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:50,280 They wouldn't let us back in after we broke all those windows. 1380 01:13:54,513 --> 01:13:56,181 - Oh, no! - Look out! 1381 01:14:10,028 --> 01:14:13,490 Well, you've seen two sides of the LSD psychedelic question. 1382 01:14:13,574 --> 01:14:15,033 But if you really think of it, 1383 01:14:15,117 --> 01:14:17,411 there's been about 20 sides to the question. 1384 01:14:17,494 --> 01:14:20,038 While it's possible that some things were left out, 1385 01:14:20,122 --> 01:14:24,626 we did hear from the most important and most strongly felt opinions about LSD. 1386 01:14:24,710 --> 01:14:25,711 Now it's your turn. 1387 01:14:27,004 --> 01:14:28,005 You decide. 1388 01:14:29,173 --> 01:14:32,176 You know, what we call everyday reality, 1389 01:14:32,259 --> 01:14:34,428 is a projection of consciousness. 1390 01:14:34,511 --> 01:14:37,514 In reality, there's no such thing as colors or sounds, 1391 01:14:37,598 --> 01:14:40,309 or textures, or tastes, or smells, 1392 01:14:40,392 --> 01:14:42,311 in the so-called real world. 1393 01:14:42,394 --> 01:14:46,899 The real world is a radically ambiguous and ceaselessly flowing quantum soup. 1394 01:14:46,982 --> 01:14:51,236 It's a fluctuation of energy and information in an infinite void. 1395 01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:55,657 The sky that an insect sees is not the sky you and I see. 1396 01:14:56,033 --> 01:14:58,911 A honey bee experiences, um, 1397 01:14:58,994 --> 01:15:01,455 ultraviolet radiation 1398 01:15:01,538 --> 01:15:04,166 I have no idea what that looks like, you know? 1399 01:15:04,249 --> 01:15:06,001 So when a honey bee looks at a flower, 1400 01:15:06,084 --> 01:15:08,504 it doesn't see a flower the way you and I see, 1401 01:15:08,587 --> 01:15:10,714 although it can sense honey from a distance. 1402 01:15:10,797 --> 01:15:13,967 A snake experiences infrared radiation. 1403 01:15:14,051 --> 01:15:16,845 A bat experiences the echo of ultrasound. 1404 01:15:16,929 --> 01:15:19,598 A chameleon's eyeballs swivel on two different axes. 1405 01:15:19,681 --> 01:15:23,560 You can't even remotely imagine what this would look like to a chameleon. 1406 01:15:23,644 --> 01:15:25,187 So, what's reality? 1407 01:15:25,270 --> 01:15:27,397 And the answer is there's no such thing. 1408 01:15:27,481 --> 01:15:30,234 These compounds, when utilized under optimal conditions, 1409 01:15:30,317 --> 01:15:33,320 seem to have a rather remarkable facility 1410 01:15:33,403 --> 01:15:37,741 for catalyzing spiritual-level experiences, 1411 01:15:37,824 --> 01:15:39,409 which by their very nature 1412 01:15:39,493 --> 01:15:42,496 may be... may have the potential to be transformative. 1413 01:15:42,579 --> 01:15:47,834 It enhanced my ability to navigate the world, 1414 01:15:47,918 --> 01:15:49,711 to be in a family, 1415 01:15:49,795 --> 01:15:51,338 to relate to my children, 1416 01:15:51,421 --> 01:15:53,799 to relate to my wife, to my colleagues. 1417 01:15:54,508 --> 01:15:57,594 Um... It teaches me about community, 1418 01:15:57,678 --> 01:16:02,182 and it teaches me that the core of all religious thought ought to be... 1419 01:16:03,183 --> 01:16:06,436 "Let me treat others the way I want to be treated myself." 1420 01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:08,438 Whenever it was a good trip, 1421 01:16:08,522 --> 01:16:11,358 I would think, "Oh, my God, we're all one. 1422 01:16:11,441 --> 01:16:14,111 Uh... Death is not something to fear. 1423 01:16:14,194 --> 01:16:17,739 Life and death are really walking hand-in-hand with each other, 1424 01:16:17,823 --> 01:16:18,781 and it's cool." 1425 01:16:18,782 --> 01:16:22,160 The first time, or the first couple times I tripped, 1426 01:16:22,244 --> 01:16:25,956 I... I really did believe every single person, 1427 01:16:26,039 --> 01:16:30,752 the planet would be a better planet if everybody took acid once. 1428 01:16:30,836 --> 01:16:34,131 Did it make me smarter? Did I become enlightened? 1429 01:16:34,214 --> 01:16:36,717 I don't know. But I think it... 1430 01:16:37,134 --> 01:16:41,597 It enabled me, early on, to imagine another point of view. 1431 01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:43,265 Another perspective. 1432 01:16:43,348 --> 01:16:45,517 I think it made me a better person, 1433 01:16:45,601 --> 01:16:48,395 both creatively, and in every other way. 1434 01:16:48,478 --> 01:16:50,939 I'd rather be a person who's had that in his past 1435 01:16:51,023 --> 01:16:53,358 than somebody who missed it. 1436 01:16:53,442 --> 01:16:54,776 Even now, in my adult life, 1437 01:16:54,860 --> 01:16:57,571 I continue to experience it as a very psychedelic adventure, 1438 01:16:57,654 --> 01:17:01,283 that is, like, a, you know, a baffling nonsensical riddle. 1439 01:17:01,366 --> 01:17:03,910 Let's face it, we're all gonna die, so, you know... 1440 01:17:03,994 --> 01:17:06,288 It was kind of like jumping out of an airplane. 1441 01:17:06,371 --> 01:17:08,790 About a second-and-a-half into it, I realize, 1442 01:17:08,874 --> 01:17:11,335 "Oh, I never need to do this again, ever, in my life. 1443 01:17:11,418 --> 01:17:13,211 I don't ever want to do this." 1444 01:17:13,295 --> 01:17:16,381 That was sort of my experience with acid a few minutes into it, 1445 01:17:16,465 --> 01:17:18,383 only it lasted for another six hours. 1446 01:17:18,467 --> 01:17:19,635 That was the problem. 1447 01:17:20,093 --> 01:17:23,305 I think what I'd say to anyone tripping for the first time 1448 01:17:23,388 --> 01:17:25,307 is be moderate. 1449 01:17:25,390 --> 01:17:28,435 It's the haircut theory: you can always cut more off. 1450 01:17:29,102 --> 01:17:32,064 But once you cut too much, once you've taken too much, 1451 01:17:32,147 --> 01:17:33,440 there's no turning back. 1452 01:17:33,523 --> 01:17:35,776 I thought I'll never do that again, 1453 01:17:35,859 --> 01:17:38,028 but I did, a few more times. 1454 01:17:38,111 --> 01:17:41,448 You should not take it cavalierly. I don't know if you should take it. 1455 01:17:41,531 --> 01:17:44,201 In the sky, I see a giant zipper. 1456 01:17:45,410 --> 01:17:48,789 And the zipper starts to open. 1457 01:17:48,872 --> 01:17:51,625 Now, if you go with the flow, 1458 01:17:52,209 --> 01:17:53,794 you let the zipper open. 1459 01:17:53,877 --> 01:17:55,253 And you just fucking deal. 1460 01:17:55,337 --> 01:17:58,632 If they're bats, if it's God's penis, whatever. 1461 01:17:58,715 --> 01:17:59,925 You just do it. 1462 01:18:00,008 --> 01:18:02,928 Okay, if you have any fucking sense when it comes to drugs, 1463 01:18:03,011 --> 01:18:05,222 you don't stop the zipper. 1464 01:18:05,305 --> 01:18:09,935 I'm always looking to evolve as a human being. 1465 01:18:10,018 --> 01:18:12,938 I think we do that by thinking out of the box, you know. 1466 01:18:13,480 --> 01:18:15,607 We have to accept that the box is just a construct. 1467 01:18:15,691 --> 01:18:18,318 It's something that we've been conditioned to accept, 1468 01:18:18,402 --> 01:18:20,195 but it's not particularly useful. 1469 01:18:20,278 --> 01:18:21,613 Everything is in crisis. 1470 01:18:21,697 --> 01:18:23,532 How are we gonna survive the crisis? 1471 01:18:23,615 --> 01:18:25,492 How do we get over the other side of the wall? 1472 01:18:25,575 --> 01:18:28,995 And so we need to use whatever tools it takes 1473 01:18:29,079 --> 01:18:30,747 to get over the other side. 1474 01:18:30,831 --> 01:18:33,333 It's like a step ladder to look over a brick wall 1475 01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:34,897 that's a little bit too tall for you. 1476 01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,921 You use a stepladder, you get to see this crazy landscape 1477 01:18:38,004 --> 01:18:42,008 that you kind of had an inkling about every time you walked by this wall, 1478 01:18:42,092 --> 01:18:45,554 and then some people, you know, can sit in front of the wall, 1479 01:18:45,637 --> 01:18:48,557 and, like, meditate, and then the wall becomes transparent, 1480 01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:50,267 and they see beyond it, you know? 1481 01:18:50,350 --> 01:18:53,854 So, there are many pathways to arrive at the same realization. 1482 01:18:53,937 --> 01:18:55,731 It's a tremendous asset, 1483 01:18:56,106 --> 01:18:57,566 freedom to learn about it, 1484 01:18:57,649 --> 01:19:00,569 and not have our government stop us from learning things 1485 01:19:00,652 --> 01:19:02,372 that could really be... Same with marijuana. 1486 01:19:02,446 --> 01:19:04,740 I mean, they take away all the possible discovery 1487 01:19:04,823 --> 01:19:06,992 of all the medicine it could be. 1488 01:19:07,075 --> 01:19:09,161 What I would envision 1489 01:19:09,244 --> 01:19:12,372 really would be a certified retreat center, 1490 01:19:12,456 --> 01:19:15,625 you know, preferably close to nature, 1491 01:19:15,709 --> 01:19:18,545 where individuals can go and have a treatment, 1492 01:19:18,628 --> 01:19:23,258 and have expert facilitators help guide them through the experience, 1493 01:19:23,341 --> 01:19:27,304 and afterwards help them integrate that experience into their lives. 1494 01:19:27,721 --> 01:19:30,724 If I may say so, the whole consciousness revolution 1495 01:19:30,807 --> 01:19:32,809 that started in the '60s, 1496 01:19:32,893 --> 01:19:34,561 which led to other movements, 1497 01:19:34,644 --> 01:19:35,854 the feminist movement, 1498 01:19:35,937 --> 01:19:37,397 the ecology movement, 1499 01:19:37,481 --> 01:19:38,940 the peace movement, 1500 01:19:39,024 --> 01:19:40,859 uh, Greenpeace, all of that, 1501 01:19:41,401 --> 01:19:43,612 began, um... 1502 01:19:43,695 --> 01:19:47,240 with the use of hallucinogenic drugs. 1503 01:19:47,324 --> 01:19:50,076 Many people think that it peaked and it went away. 1504 01:19:50,327 --> 01:19:55,207 Uh... I'm sorry to inform you, the awakening is still going on. 1505 01:19:55,707 --> 01:19:57,292 We're on a trip all the time. 1506 01:19:57,375 --> 01:19:59,795 Right now we're on a trip, right? Life is a trip. 1507 01:20:31,910 --> 01:20:34,037 Lots of people drink coffee before they go to work. 1508 01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:36,414 Others, believe it or not, drop acid. 1509 01:20:36,540 --> 01:20:39,501 Now, why some psychiatrists and researchers 1510 01:20:39,584 --> 01:20:42,337 are giving psychedelic drugs a second look 1511 01:20:42,420 --> 01:20:46,174 as a possible way of treating depression and some mental illnesses. 1512 01:20:46,258 --> 01:20:50,095 They're being used to treat depression, anxiety, and addiction. 1513 01:20:50,178 --> 01:20:52,264 The early results are impressive. 1514 01:20:52,347 --> 01:20:55,559 They're relatively non-toxic, less toxic than alcohol. 1515 01:20:55,642 --> 01:20:57,018 They're non-addictive. 1516 01:20:57,102 --> 01:21:00,021 The DEA says it's granted permission to more than 50 researchers 1517 01:21:00,105 --> 01:21:03,149 to study the therapeutic effects of LSD. 1518 01:21:03,233 --> 01:21:05,652 Denver has become the first city in America 1519 01:21:05,735 --> 01:21:08,405 to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. 1520 01:21:08,488 --> 01:21:11,741 The city of Oakland is now the second city in the US 1521 01:21:11,825 --> 01:21:16,288 to decriminalize the adult use and possession of magic mushrooms. 1522 01:21:16,371 --> 01:21:19,624 The Santa Cruz City Council unanimously approved the resolution. 1523 01:21:19,708 --> 01:21:23,461 This decriminalizes the use, possession and cultivation 1524 01:21:23,545 --> 01:21:24,921 of psychoactive plants. 1525 01:21:25,005 --> 01:21:27,674 If you could use a drug, and this has been done now, 1526 01:21:27,757 --> 01:21:31,052 that could stop you smoking cigarettes or being an alcoholic, 1527 01:21:31,136 --> 01:21:34,055 you know, working maybe 80% of the time, at least initially... 1528 01:21:34,139 --> 01:21:35,055 Yeah. 1529 01:21:35,056 --> 01:21:36,934 We gotta explore how that's possible. 1530 01:21:37,017 --> 01:21:38,685 Let's you and I do some mushrooms. 1531 01:21:38,768 --> 01:21:40,103 - Alright. - Let's do it. 1532 01:21:43,773 --> 01:21:44,858 Good luck! 1533 01:22:11,509 --> 01:22:13,678 ♪ Whatever you want from me ♪ 1534 01:22:14,554 --> 01:22:16,681 ♪ Whatever you want, I'll do ♪ 1535 01:22:17,641 --> 01:22:20,352 ♪ I'll try to squeeze a drop of blood ♪ 1536 01:22:20,435 --> 01:22:21,978 ♪ From a sugar cube ♪ 1537 01:22:36,493 --> 01:22:38,620 ♪ Try to be more assured ♪ 1538 01:22:39,579 --> 01:22:41,748 ♪ Try to be more right there ♪ 1539 01:22:42,707 --> 01:22:44,793 ♪ Try to be less uptight ♪ 1540 01:22:45,877 --> 01:22:47,963 ♪ Try to be more aware ♪ 1541 01:22:48,755 --> 01:22:51,049 ♪ Whatever you want from me ♪ 1542 01:22:51,925 --> 01:22:54,219 ♪ Is what I wanna do for you ♪ 1543 01:22:55,095 --> 01:22:57,305 ♪ Sweeter than a drop of blood ♪ 1544 01:22:57,764 --> 01:22:59,391 ♪ From a sugar cube ♪ 1545 01:23:44,686 --> 01:23:48,773 ♪ And though I like to act the part Of being tough ♪ 1546 01:23:50,900 --> 01:23:54,154 ♪ I crumble like a sugar cube ♪ 1547 01:23:56,114 --> 01:23:57,699 ♪ For you ♪ 1548 01:24:18,094 --> 01:24:20,430 ♪ Whatever you want from me ♪ 1549 01:24:21,306 --> 01:24:23,433 ♪ Whatever you want, I'll do ♪ 1550 01:24:24,309 --> 01:24:25,852 ♪ And I will try ♪ 1551 01:24:30,482 --> 01:24:32,650 ♪ Whatever you want from me ♪ 1552 01:24:33,526 --> 01:24:35,737 ♪ Whatever you want, I'll do ♪ 1553 01:24:36,571 --> 01:24:39,532 ♪ I'll try and squeeze a drop of blood ♪ 1554 01:24:39,616 --> 01:24:42,952 ♪ Squeeze a drop of blood From a sugar cube ♪ 1555 01:24:51,836 --> 01:24:52,837 Good night. 127003

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