Celebs talk about tripping balls in "Have a Good Trip" documentary

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This is a terrible idea. It furthers the narrative that famous people’s experiences are somehow more valid than everyone else’s.

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With Carrie Fisher and Anthony Bourdain? How long have the filmmakers been holding on to it?

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Your first line is correct. Listening to people talk about what they did when they were high is never interesting.

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In one of the A.A. adjunct books, probably As Bill Sees It, Bill W. talks about tripping with Aldous Huxley and how LSD seemed like it could be an effective treatment. Needless to say, while this is part of the canon, it is most certainly glossed over in any meeting.

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Watched this, it’s poor - the editing is rather appalling, the pithy ‘tripping rules’ are gross, and the attempts at parodying anti-drug propaganda are lame.

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Documentary filmmakers often work for decades on their projects.

(I may be one of those.)

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No idea what this means. Could you explain?

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Have you read “How to Change your Mind” by Michael Pollan? He gives a thorough history of psychedelic research in the 40s through the present. Not only was there plenty of research showing success in treating people with severe alcoholism, but Bill W. was petitioning the AA board to include LSD therapy as a treatment option.

Psychedelics were well regarded until Leary & Co. made them a popular hedonistic ritual, and the ensuing moral panic would then have them outlawed and relegated to druggie / hippie status.

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This is a very disappointing “documentary”, on so many levels. It trivializes the complex issue of psychedelics, making the whole movie a farce. Not only the “celebrities” are not articulate enough to talk about the issue… they tell their stories to make them sound larger than life. The tales are not reports, so they are inaccurate. There is a real scientist who talks, but his contribution adds nothing to the movie. The anti-drugs propaganda ads are just lame. Overall, a lost opportunity to make something interesting or culturally solid, or even fun watching.

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