it offers hope. >> we lived right down the street from the psychedelic shop. it was just an incredible environment at that point, in the beginning. that's when it was just like one big, giant family. >> before you knew it, it was a congregating place for artists, and the dividing line seemed to be the psychedelic experience. you couldn't understand the posters, you couldn't understand the fashions, you couldn't understand anything if you hadn't gotten high. >> the diggers group scrounges food and money to feed free those who arrive in panhandle park with a bowl and an appetite. diggers are people who share, says their manifesto, and their aim is a society where everything is shared, everything free. >> the diggers were one of the first groups that were into social consciousness about what was needed to take care of this huge group of people that were coming into the haight-ashbury. >> their free shop looks more like a playground at first sight. here they make sheets and clothes for other hippies, who can come and take what they want without paying anything for

back in the 1950s, tens of thousands of people were treated with psychedelics. at the treatment. >> reporter: these strange images and sensations are part of the experience of the drug called lsd, but this scene shows lsd as it looks and sounds far from the glare of the headlines in serious medical research. >> reporter: the late 1960s saw a democrat dramatic shift in the use of psychedelics. it was erased from mainstream medicine. michael pollan is the author of five new york times best sellers. the new book is called "how to change your mind: what the new sciences of psychedelics teaches us about." good morning. it's not the -- so, michael, why this topic? how did you get started? how did you get into this? >> i was reading some of these studies which i thought were, frankly, so crazy and implausible. people who were dying of cancer, struggling with depression and anxiety and fear, being given psychedelic drugs, soucie bin specifically, the so-called ingredient in magic mushrooms that helped them deal with their mortality. that seemed odd to me. i started inte

what is it about lsd and the psychedelics that make them useful in the addiction? >> it is more a drug called psilocybin that unlike lsd is a softer form and it comes from mushrooms. another term is called magic mushrooms. and we don't have -- we have some good treatments, but we don't have as many effective as we would like, nor do we have interventions where we do one thingth or two things and it tus the course of somebody's life. people who were terminally ill and for any crisis and huge distress about facing their deaths and over 500 people have roen given psilocybin without a bad reaction. it's puree comedy are in a connected environment and 80% of those individuals went from being an extreme distress to reconciling themselves with the circumstances with their own death. what is reported as people have this iow experience. people have different traits that there is lsd, psilocybin. you get a sense of wonder or restore the sense of wonder that you are not dying but you are continuing. there are studies underway to see if psilocybin is effective as well with com

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documents obtained by cbs news, details about a drug ring on base show some were just high, mostly on the psychedelic drug lsd. "i absolutely just loved altering my mind," one airman testified at his court-martial. another said under oath, "i didn't know if i was going to die that night or not" and road mitted he would not have been able to perform his duty in case of a nuclear security emergency. between 2015 and 2016 more than a dozen nuclear base personnel were found to have been abusing lsd and other drugs, including cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. none were accused of using lsd on duty. >> the person is going to be affected on the job and directly affected by the acute intoxicating effects of lsd. >> reporter: but dr. elias dakwar, who works with substance abuse disorders at columbia university's irving medical center, says lsd's effects last longer than the initial trip. >> there may still be lingering anxiety, lingering suspicion as a result of any kind of experience that is harrowing. it leaves a certain residue. >> reporter: in a statement the air force said there are multiple checks to mak

haight ashbury community but it also ensures the neighborhood is preserved and more importantly, the psychedelic fashions that come out of love on haight are created by her family and friends. sunny is the kind of small business owners who understands the journey of finding your place in life and not just being quite sure where you fit in. she uses her experience and path of discovery to spread love and sparkles to the entire community. welcoming those in need for a little support and representing all of the best values of san francisco. she is also a community leader and a community activist. sunny is an active member of the haight ashbury neighborhood association and also sits as leadership position for the taking it to the streets program. one that has changed lives of our young people by providing job training, substance abuse treatment, housing, exits from homelessness in general. she has been an amazing support and part of the proceeds from her business actually goes to support this incredible program that is serving, as we speak, over 64 young people who are now housed. she goes out of he

the captain. >>> plus psychedelic drugs are back on doctors' radars as possible medical treatment. michael pollan talks about his new book on the new science of psychedelics. >> and prince harry and meghan markle are just five days away from walking down the aisle. we'll take you back to the beginning of the couple's love story. that's the "cbs morning news" for this monday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. >>> as you start of the week, a live look outside at the bay bridge. a little bit cloudy to start. it's monday, may 14 and i'm kenny choi. >>> i'm michelle griego. did everybody have a good mother's day? >> yes. we all have them. >> it was good. they made me breakfast, which was good and then we did some unpacking. we have work to do. we are a packing family. >>> i hope everybody enjoyed mother's day. it will be cool and cloudy this week and we are ready for it. here's a look at our salesforce tower. there are clouds hanging low and it won't necessarily b

the association for psychedelic studies which was created in 1986 after mdma, or ecstasy, had been bannedse people supporters of ecstasy? is that why they were created? >> greg: there was a group of psychotherapists who were really, really angry when they, a valuable tool was taken for them. the guy in charge, he's been pioneering all this. that's how it happened. they were ticked off at the government. >> juan: it's interesting to me, previously most conservatives would have said no. no, no, no. not now given the veterans need, because it's a crisis for the veterans, all veterans, all of a sudden the conservatives are like yeah, let's try it. >> greg: that was the key, i think. >> kimberly: this is part of the overall complex problem that we have facing veterans, those that are coming home. so many more of them surviving injuries that otherwise would've been life-threatening or ending. traumatic brain injury, depression, anxiety, homelessness, the things that come with serving, being away, families broken up. it's very difficult but i think there's definitely a genuine interest in trying

i guess the only word would be psychedelic art. ,t made the building vibrate and when you open the doors, you were met by a fog machine, so you were kind of walking into something very, hopefully, that we thought was a little mystical, and as you walked in the box office, where you pager three dollars was on the right. >> [laughter] at the side where people came into the club, they didn't always have paper my. there was a lot of change that they had. sometimes they were panhandling on street corners right in front of the club. lights thatstrobe hit you with an extrasensory idea that we had. we had a tunnel that you walked in, which was on the left. the tunnel was mirrored. it was in an l shape. we had strobe lights. to make it more interesting, on the floor we put mattresses so you floated through. there was a jungle gym people sat on on the right. the refreshment stand we painted , it was like an arc from -- an r. crumb cartoon of a person's mouth. you are ordering to the person's mouth. were ordering through the person's mouth. we had boxes slanted at a 30 degree angle we just laid bac

the painting. then it changes over time to be more psychedelic. u can see the sort of brushstrokes come out in a weird digitize way, it's interesting. carol: up next, big ambitions for the world leader in crypto mining. jason: and a company that says they can solve uber's car challenges. carol: welcome back. jason: you can also find us online. now we have a pair of stories by max chafkin. we really turned him loose on a lot of different things. is that he i love uncovers people and companies that nobody is talking about, but in a few months everybody will. jason: and everybody will be talking about bitmain. >> they are a beijing-based semi conductor company. not super well known unless you are in the world of cryptocurrency, where they are basically the only game in town. we are talking about a market share around 80%. they are selling the most popular chips for bitcoin mining and operating a great percentage of these mines. what is interesting is that they are now moving into ai. they deftly are looking down the road and at the united states. >> t

. >> another thing you mentioned, another part over the multifaceted approach, there's promising research in using psychedelic jugs like lsd. what is it that makes them use ful in addiction. >> it's mere drug called psilocybin than lsd. it is like lsd. it's a softer form of lsd and comes from mushrooms. another term for it is called magic mushrooms. and we don't have -- we have some good treatments but we don't have as many effective treatments as we would like, nor do we have interventions where you do one thing or two things, the same thing twice, and its turns the course of somebody's life. the psilocybin causes a trip that last six hours, and when done under the safe circumstances -- this has been studied in four august medical centers, imperial college of london, nyu, hopkins, and stanford. first with people who were terminally and i will were in a crisis. huge disstress but facing death and over 500 people were given psilocybin under the conditions and without one bad reaction. it's pure stuff. nicer a protected environment and they're guided,, and 80% of those individuals went from being in extreme dis

mind bending vision of the world fit very perfectly with the hippie counterculture he was championed to something of a godfather of psychedelic art and you can also find a lot of his influences in film for instance here the musical fantasy labyrinth. thank god we have to stop there but you can see echoes of these stairs there is a no no no no i'm sorry late we don't have time harry potter fans will know what i'm talking about your first car and how seven i was going on show watching be tough. here's your of being calling this my software. entire even governments are reliant on one company. microsoft. it's a pretty serious situation for a picture of security flaws. so why aren't alternatives being. the microsoft. system d w. client dortmund's shell to leipzig the biggest favor it seems sleep got all the best goals we've got all the action. is the home of german football shared experience every match if someone does league of free weekend here told you. we make up oh but we watch as of a fix that under the two cups we are the sum of some of the sums. they may want to shape the continents future it's part of an enjoyment dumpste

the link between my previous work and my current work. >> stephen: yeah. but i was hearing about this incredible research using psychedelicser" a couple of years ago interviewing people who had cancer diagnoses, and they had been ministered psilocybin to help them confront their mortality and this seems like a bizarre idea. >> stephen: absolutely, because who knows where the mind goes when you're on a psychoactive drug. >> yeah, but people emerged from this experience, they would have these powerful spiritual experiences and they would emerge from it with their fear of death gone. and i became very curious to see what was that about and how can a molecule do that to anybody and that launched me on this. >> stephen: did you research the various-- ( laughter ) i guess what i'm trying to ask is are you high right now? ( laughter ) >> i'm not. >> stephen: okay. what did you do in service of this project? >> well, my brand is emerging journalism. when i wrote about the cattle industry, i bought a steer. so, naturally, if i'm writing about psilocybin, i had to immerse myself in that experience. >> stephen: so you took magic mush

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. >> another thing you mentioned, another part over the multifaceted approach, there's promising research in using psychedelic jugs like lsd. what is it that makes them use ful in addiction. >> it's mere drug called psilocybin than lsd. it is like lsd. it's a softer form of lsd and comes from mushrooms. another term for it is called magic mushrooms. and we don't have -- we have some good treatments but we don't have as many effective treatments as we would like, nor do we have interventions where you do one thing or two things, the same thing twice, and its turns the course of somebody's life. the psilocybin causes a trip that last six hours, and when done under the safe circumstances -- this has been studied in four august medical centers, imperial college of london, nyu, hopkins, and stanford. first with people who were terminally and i will were in a crisis. huge disstress but facing death and over 500 people were given psilocybin under the conditions and without one bad reaction. it's pure stuff. nicer a protected environment and they're guided,, and 80% of those individuals went from being in extreme dis

the life and political rise of president trump. michael pollen shares his research on how psychedelic drugs are being used as medicine. and in "to end a presidency," lawrence tribe and joshua matts explore the history of impeachment. and best selling writer david grayburg on finding purpose in your work. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> here's a look at some authors recently featured on booktv's "after words," our weekly author or interview program that includes guest interviewers. facebook co-founder chris hughes argued for a guaranteed income for the working class. journalist ronald kessler reported on the inner workings of the trump administration. and david corn and michael isikoff described how russian hackers attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election. in the coming weeks on "after words," former defense secretary donald rumsfeld recounts the presidency of gerald ford. retired u.s. marine corps lieutenant colonel kate german know will detail gender bias in the marines, and jerome corsi will argue there's a

the bombs that destroyed hiroshima. they're supposed to be on high alert. but in documents obtained by cbs news, details on a drug ring base show some were just high, mostly on a psychedelic drug lsd. i absolutely just loved altering my mind, one airman testified at his court-martial. another said i didn't know if i was going to die that night or not and admitted he would not have been able to perform his duty in case of a nuclear security emergency. between 2015 and 2016 more than a dozen nuclear base personnel were found to have been abusing lsd and other drugs including cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. none were accused of using lsd on the job. >> people are going to be affected on the job. >> reporter: but dr. elias dakwar says lsd's effects last longer than the initial trip. >> there may still be lingering anxiety, lingering suspicion as a result of any kind of experience that is harrowing. it leaves a certain residue. >> reporter: in a statement the air force said there are multiple checks to make sure the airmen are able to execute the mission safely, securely, and effectively. in all 14 airmen were disciplined including six of distributing and illegally using lsd.

the oped page. >> greg: what do you think? it is a stereotype i don't fit in to. i don't smoke cigar or play golf and i listen to metal and tronnica and pro drug and psychedelic andn. that is a challenge. we need to haveetrogenius. >> jesse: we'll let you know. >> kimberly: you are@table. >> jesse: dana? >>>> dana: you heard me talk about pro sports. i think chris matthews in some ways it mirrors what the right says about the left. there is very few outliars. i don't know much on the left and how diverse that might be. but what is happening with younger conservatives is happening. they may not be card carrying republicans. but they are voting republican and that is what makes the difference. >> jesse: we don't care what sport you play as long as you vote republican. >> geraldo: i hate golf. i always played tennis. >> jesse: typical liberal. >> geraldo: when you stereotype, that is putting everybody in the same basket. >> jesse: we never stereotype. right kg? >> kimberly: never. i think something in the air conditioning system in msnbc. it is rants. and i guess it works for their ratings that they say nonsensical and stereotyping of people and it is limiting and i

i guess the only word would be psychedelic art. it made the building vibrate, and when you open the doors, you were met by a fog machine, so you were kind of walking into something very, hopefully, that we thought was a little mystical, and as you walked in the box office, where you paid three dollars was on the right. >> $3 to see jimi hendrix? larry: $3. [laughter] larry: and, well, people came into the club. they didn't always have paper money.