Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Published on February 20, 2023

John Oliver discusses psychedelic assisted therapy: its history, its potential, and what it has to do with A$AP Rocky’s relationship to rainbows.

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  • Alexandria Raine 1 year ago

    You mean humans have been potentially healing themselves by getting high?
    You’re honestly saying that something humans have been doing for thousands of years, that made them happy, is actually not evil and bad?
    Next you’re gonna tell me that spices are actually good for you and not just “something people have done forever”

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  • Blak Majik 1 year ago

    As someone with ptsd I would gladly give up the money I get to feel human again

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  • Lillylu 1 year ago

    What’s this refreshing return of relevant thoughts?

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  • hendrsb33 1 year ago

    Welcome back, John. You do more to help and inform the world than many of those we’ve mistakenly elected into office for the same purpose. Not only that, you make us laugh while you do it.

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  • Falconbridge 1 year ago

    Can we just take a second look at all the Reagan era laws? We seem to keep finding that we just made up all the hype about everything around there.

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  • Nayla S 1 year ago

    We missed you, John!

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  • Mat Wyder 1 year ago

    While I agree on the potential positive effects, I’m still somewhat concerned. The reason is what your first segment of monologue (not uploaded here for some reason) was about. A sizable part of our societies are already stuck high on media- and politics-induced mind altering trips. People demonstrating painfully clearly they can’t manage the experience, can’t discern fiction from reality, giving them approval to use psychedelics could get all of us on a really dangerous journey, potentially much worse than that we are already on. Sometimes I wonder if all the draconian drug prohibition was set up based on this precaution. From our personal perspectives, it may seem pointless, but I just don’t want to know how a devoted MAGA crazyperson would react when they start to actually _see_ democrats eating baby sandwiches. Mixing Fox with any other psychoactive substance, dunno, is that _really_ a good idea?

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  • Asha Sultana 1 year ago

    John raises so many good points here – so much to unpack.

    Vetting your trip sitter is the most important thing you can do for yourself once you’ve decided you are ready. Make sure you find someone skilled, experienced and ethical.

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  • Peter Byrne 1 year ago

    I’ve met 33-year-old alcoholics that looked a lot older than that.

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  • Gladys Baldew 1 year ago

    Early morning class on drugs, that really woke me up !

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  • Brian Yule 1 year ago

    If ‘Meth To Monkeys’ isn’t the name of a punk band already, it soon will be.

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  • Article Particle 1 year ago

    15,000 dollars. Leave it to america to take a spirital medicine and capitalize on it. No thanks ill stick to taking mushrooms in my home for free. The govt really does ruin everything about the human experience and seems to allways will.

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  • b Goyda 1 year ago

    Yo I don’t even like rainbows

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  • LifeWhims 1 year ago

    Trippin’ Through Trauma : Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

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  • Karin Michelle 1 year ago

    MDMA I’ve only taken it 3x the 1st time I was 17 it was “opiate based” seemed mellow relaxed. Didn’t have much thought. The 2nd time I was 18 was the absolute worst!! I think I just took to much I remember having a lot of empathy’s. I have a paper somewhere I wrote on it. I was just begging for it to end it lasted forever. 3rd time I was 28 it was again a horrible experience. I thought I was going to die. Had no deep thoughts just was beyond wasted & had no business doing mdma & will likely NEVER do it again it isn’t for everyone

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  • kisite5440 1 year ago

    nice

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