Science | A new understanding: The science of psilocybin

In 1943 chemist Albert Hofmann was developing medicines to aid blood circulation lysergic acid derivatives, his reach would lead to the discovery of the drug known as LSD and the isolation of other psychoactive compounds such as psilocybin. These breakthroughs showed great promise for use in therapy and were commonly prescribed by psychiatrists. However, the medicines would later be caught in a dragnet of 60’s drug prohibition. A new understanding: The science of psilocybin is a film that sets out to explore the treatment of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill cancer patients using some of the psychoactive compounds mentioned above.