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Legal anesthetic that's been used since the 70s. it was approved to help people with treatment-resistant depression. dr. mayor gave me a tour of where he plans to conduct psilocybin treatments. >> it feels a little different from what i imagine your e.r. environment would be like. >> oh, my gosh. yeah. >> and notice the instruments. >> i'll use the gone, the singing bowls. this is called a tongue drum. it's like a hand pan. >> you use all of these? >> all of them. >> he showed me his vision for a mushroom therapy session. >> let's go ahead and lie this back, get comfortable with the blanket. >...

Psychologically, right, because without support, in some cases it could be destabilizing. >> some medical experts fear it's all moving too quickly in oregon. >> the one thing that does worry me is this trend where we're bypassing the fda and other safeguards to kind of determine what is a safe medicine. are we informing people of the risks? you know, do we even know the risks? >> another concern is that facilitators only have to have a high school degree. >> some people come at it from a different angle, and we're not trying to close those people out. we want those people. >> i'm thinking abou...

Yourself, we should be trying a different course of treatment or medication? >> i would see the same patients who were getting kind of standard psychiatric medications, therapy, who really are just not being served by the system. it was a personal journey with psychedelics that really made me realize that some of the most powerful medicines were being locked away. >> what was the path that brought you there? >> good boy. >> my wife and i, together, were able to participate in an ayahuasca ceremony. my wife was going through postpartum depression. it was a really difficult time for our family. ...

>> some medical experts fear it's all moving too quickly in oregon. >> the one thing that does worry me is this trend where we're bypassing the fda and other safeguards to kind of determine what is a safe medicine. are we informing people of the risks? you know, do we even know the risks? >> another concern is that facilitators only have to have a high school degree. >> some people come at it from a different angle, and we're not trying to close those people out. we want those people. >> i'm thinking about couples who might want to do a session themselves. >> seth mehr is among those planning ...

Are just not being served by the system. it was a personal journey with psychedelics that really made me realize that some of the most powerful medicines were being locked away. >> what was the path that brought you there? >> come on. good boy. >> my wife and i together were able to participate in an ayahuasca ceremony. my wife was going through postpartum depression. it was a really difficult time for our family. the experience was life-changing. >> dr. mehr left the e.r. to open cascade psychedelic medicine in 2021. he started with ketamine, a legal anesthetic that's been used since the 70s....