Professor David Nutt

Psychedelics work...

almost immediately.

So they're potentially transformational.

But we can use them genetically, except in research.

And so we can only treat people who are in a study.

And people, well, we haven't got money to keep.

You can't keep doing studies because you know the answer.

So you've got to change the regulations and get it to more people.

That is what, I mean, historically,

psychedelics were often used to help people come to terms with death and dying i mean it generally not known but but hopefully you know the great the great intellect the great writer of about a psychedelic thing he his partner gave him lsd as he died because and to me that's actually

Something I think should be available to anyone at once and they're happy studies that they've been to control studies done in the States people with terminal illnesses like motor neurone disease or the down cancer And who've been given Sinus I mean and it's helped them come to terms of dying for the exactly the reason you elucidated there Under psychedelics you see

That you are part of the universe.

But under psychedelics, you see they're much bigger.

People often talk about their bodies sort of atomizing.

They're going into another universe, another place, often just somewhere like heaven or a mountain.

And that...

realization that you know you you never disappear you know and it kind of i suppose it's a bit back to the old uh you know sort of christian thing you know you we come from the ground and we go out but we don't we never we don't completely die we just we configure somehow and that people find that really quite reassuring