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welcome to "the whwhole story." i'm anderson cooper. you've probably heard of magic mushrooms, mushrooms which contain psilocybin, a natural substance. they became popular in the united states in the 1960s, but in the last decade, there's been an increasing amount of research into psilocybin to see if it can help treat depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. magic mushrooms are still illegal on the federal level but a few states have decriminalized them. oregon became the first state to use them in licensed therapy centers. there's still a lot we don't know about psilocybin's effec...

Actually checked with my own doctor. she was fine with it. you know, she wanted to understand a bit about the setting and how it was not recreational so much as a therapeutic one. the preparation leading into this. i mean there's a lot of group therapeutic zoom calls that you're starting to get to know the other participants, starting to understand the science behind what the psilocybin might do to you and how quickly it might take effect. as far as the lingering effects, i think you could say i've had more of a profound, maybe even a spiritual takeaway than any sort of physical impact. overal...

And the reason i went forward with it was because of the people around me. the participants. this is a deeply personal, sbim the at journey for them. to have somebody standing there with cameras not really fully involved in the process was not comfortable for them. so they said if you're going to partake with us, then we would be comfortable going on the journey with you and sharing. >> wow! and that is a reporter involvement, no question about it. were you a little hesitant at first when you decided to do this? and what was the experience like? >> yeah. i was very hesitant at first. but the r...

Vest for a number of police dogs in the area. >> this guy right here was named in honor of anderson cooper. that's a.c. >> thanks to spike's k-9 fund, officer mcniff's new k-9 officer has the vest that krueger did not. >> what's cool is he's wearing the vest that you provided for the dogs, so that bulletproof vest he wears it to work every day. >> jimmy somehow convinced know suit up so i could experience the power and discipline of these dogs. >> i got him. >> let's get up. feel how intimate that is? he's talking to you. >> and anderson joins me now. intimate, that's how they described it. >>...

>> thanks to spike's k-9 fund, officer mcany of's new k-9 officer has the vest that krueger did not. >> what's cool is he's wearing the vest that you provided for the dogs, so that's bullet proof vest and he wears it to work every day. >> jimmy somehow convinced know suit up so i could experience the power and discipline of these dogs. >> i got him. >> let's get up. feel so intimate that is. he's talking to you. >> and anderson joins me now, intimate that's how they described it. >> yeah. it's just so surreal, you know, this dog was just nice one moment and the dog was looking right at you. it...