Ch4. - Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial (2012)
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Genre: Documentary
Nearly 60 years after Aldous Huxley took half a gram of mescaline at home in Hollywood and recorded the effect upon him in The Doors of Perception, Channel 4 had a go with Ecstasy in a "ground-breaking study". Over two nights, they brought the full weight of neurophysiological science and televisual blather to bear on recording what happens to the human brain when we drop an E. "Half a million people use it every year," cried Jon Snow incredulously, "but nobody knows how it works!" In Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial, the 25 volunteers were invited to a hospital, given 83mg of MDMA and bunged in an MRI scanner, which measures brain activity. They were also invited to describe the experience. On hand to comment were Val Curran, a professor of pharmapsychology who dreamed up the idea, and David Nutt, the pleasingly-named former czar of drug misuse, who was booted out of his government consultancy after saying that Ecstasy was safer than horse-riding. That all sounds pretty rigorous and scientific, doesn't it? In practice, it was undermined from the start by uncertainty of tone. Jon Snow behaved as if he was fronting a jolly investigation into social behaviour. He was given a prop of a giant plastic brain, whose hemispheres he prised apart with an expression of goggling idiocy. The set displayed professors Nutt and Curran sitting on a box, their legs dangling childishly. An audience applauded after ad-breaks as if on a chat show, and the contributions of the volunteers brought me to a state close to druggy hysteria.
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