4/10
We don't need this superficial woo-woo comedy
14 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
First of all, I'm pro-psychedelic availability and use.

I could recommend a whole lot of good to superb docs on the topic of drugs. In chronological order: 2001 Shamans Of The Amazon, 2006 Cocaine Cowboys, 2007 The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, 2008 Cocaine Cowboys 2, 2009 NatGeo Explorer S24E05: Inside LSD, 2011 Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search For A Kool Place, 2012 The House I Live In, 2013 Neurons To Nirvana: Understanding Psychedelic Medicines, 2014 Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded, 2014 The Culture High, 2015 The Sunshine Makers, 2016 Orange Sunshine, 2017 America's War On Drugs (must see), 2017 Trip Of Compassion, 2019 Dosed, 2019 Fantastic Fungi, 2019 Journeys To The Edge Of Consciousness, 2019 The Mind Explained S01E05 Psychedelics, 2019 The Nature Of Ayahuasca. Also VICE's Hamilton's Pharmacopeia series (must see).

This is however is extremely superficial & bland in comparison to other ones. It doesn't provide any particular knowledge, is wrong multiple times, promotes Chopra who is probably the least intelligent person in the whole scientific community, consists mostly of short meaningless insertions of comment and weak humor, mostly completely inaccurate visual effects.

Charles Grob saves a bit of rationality within the movie, Sting offers some relatively sensible comment, in the extent he can in those short commentary bits. In general, the strongest part of the entire doc is that it was able to gather some personalities that most of us were unaware have used psychedelics and get them to 'come out'. But most of the rest is just pure pointless garbage.
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