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The comedian gave a cautionary tale about not driving after ingesting hallucinogens.
The late chef and travel documentarian appears on the documentary and tells of his tumultuous Hunter S. Thompson-inspired trip involving both LSD and quaaludes—just one of his estimated 500 experiences with LSD.
The late actress appears in the documentary and says she's done acid more times than she can count and she even decorated her home to be a sort of LSD den. One of her trips involved a "misbehaving" acorn.
The actor said he had only taken acid once and admitted he probably didn't need to because for him it was just "fear and anxiety amplified."
The Beastie Boys rapper told a story of taking LSD in Mexico and having a scary encounter with a van full of strange men who ended up just being kind people who really wanted to help.
The Grateful Dead drummer said he would take psychedelics before a show, and once while on stage his cymbals appeared to be melting.
The rapper detailed his quite intimate experience wherein a rainbow shot out of his privates.
The Police front man, who has tripped various times on various substances, says in the Netflix documentary, "I don't think psychedelics are the answers to the world's problems, but they could be a start."
The Bikini Kills singer said in the documentary that the gift LSD gave her was seeing beyond the standard point A to B to C progression, and learning to go from point A to point C whenever she can.
The actress recounted a time when she didn't know she had been given psychedelics at a club and she went from swimming through the crowd to melting into her mattress.
In the documentary, the comedian said he did what people often warn you not to do while on psychedelics: look in the mirror.
The comedian and musician details in the documentary how psychedelics shifted his perspective on his view of reality.
The world-renowned author and alternative-medicine advocate says plainly in the documentary, after various accounts of reality, that there is no such thing as reality.
The 'Fleabag' actor says in the documentary that he's done mushrooms about 12 times.
The comedian has only good things to say about psychedelic mushrooms.
The actor/comedian/writer recounted his mushroom trip in Amsterdam and how he went to the Van Gogh Museum and got really, really into the art.
The actor says in the documentary that he's done mushrooms "literally 50 times."
The late Apple creator had gone looking for the meaning of life in the '70s, involving a trip through India, meditation, and LSD. He said LSD "was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life," and he added that the trip showed him that making beautiful objects was more important than making money.
The comedian recounted a story of when he did acid at around age 20, and momentarily forgot his name but was too embarrassed to ask, so he started looking in the dictionary.
The actor reportedly saw the face of God on his first acid trip. "I don't advocate anything for anybody. But I choose always to be candid because I don't like the closet atmosphere of drugging," he said. "In other words, it ain't no big thing."
The 'Enter the Void' director admitted, somewhat unsurprisingly, that he took a lot of drugs as a teen.
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Before the government decided to criminalize the use of LSD, they were used as a form of psychotherapy, and one of the biggest proponents was the famed actor. He said publicly, after he started, "Oh those wasted years, why didn't I do this sooner?"
The actress revealed that she once took LSD on a trip to Disneyland and said of the experience, "I started thinking about Mickey Mouse being a short, middle-aged man in a costume who hates life."
The actress told The Daily Beast, "I really, really enjoyed LSD. And I really enjoyed mushrooms very much. It's unfortunate, I think, that drugs were not handled properly."
To prepare for a drug scene in 'The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman,' LaBeouf reportedly tripped on LSD for 24 hours in front of the camera.
The actress has taken acid, Ayahuasca, and mushrooms, and prefers doing them outdoors. "It's not going to solve all your problems," she told The Daily Beast, "But, yes, I'm totally supportive of that means to reframe your universe."
When he was young, in his "errant youth" as he told Playboy, he had taken LSD and thought the corner of a table would plunge into his eye. He said, however, "The young mind can deal with certain kinds of gooping around that I don't think at this age I could."
Jada Pinkett Smith has spoken in detail about her use of psychedelics as an alternative therapy to treat depression. The actress and talk show host revealed that she had suffered from debilitating depression 10 years earlier that didn't respond to therapy or antidepressants. She was eventually introduced to plant therapy (magic mushrooms) and says it was a life-changing solution for her. "The thing about plant medicine is that not only does it help you feel better, it helps you solve the problems and how you got there in the first place." Smith clarified that it wasn't the same as getting high for recreational purposes. "You gotta want to do it. This is not play play. You have to be really willing to confront some hard stuff. It's changed my life."
Perhaps nothing Mike Tyson does can truly surprise us anymore, but tripping on toad venom definitely comes close. “I ‘died’ during my first trip,” the former heavyweight champion told The New York Post at Wonderland, a Miami conference dedicated to psychedelics and medicine. He's referring to the Bufo alvarius toad whose venom can be smoked to produce a psychoactive experience. Still, Tyson said he tried it 53 times, because "In my trips, I’ve seen that death is beautiful,” he said. “Life and death both have to be beautiful, but death has a bad rep. The toad has taught me that I’m not going to be here forever. There’s an expiration date.” He added that tripping helped him with his low self-esteem, explaining, "The toad strips the ego."
Megan Fox previously revealed that she and fiancé Machine Gun Kelly visited Costa Rica for an authentic ayahuasca trip back in 2021. She spoke about her challenging experience with the hallucinogenic drug, describing it as her own "personal hell." Later, Machine Gun Kelly opened up about his own experience on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.' He told Kimmel that he was the last person out of their group of 20 to be called up to take his cup from the shaman. As he stood before the group, the shaman spoke to the translator who told Kelly "Whew. She says you have a big shadow of darkness behind you. You need more." Not a great start!
When asked about Fox's description of the trip as "hell," Kelly explained, "We were exercising some things out of us that we needed to get rid of. The plant was a medicine that really went inside, you could feel it working inside your body. Even after you left it stayed there. It was interesting." Although it sounded like a scary and challenging experience, he said it was "one of the most important things that happened" in his life.
Kristen Bell revealed that she tried magic mushrooms during an interview on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' "I had never really done any drugs and I wanted to try mushrooms for my 40th birthday," she explained. "So my husband got them for me and I tried it. And we told our kids about it." While Kristen Bell isn't the first celebrity you'd peg as a psychonaut, the decision to share her experience with her young children was what got people talking. Bell and her husband, Dax Shepard, have always stated their belief that honesty is the best policy for their kids. Apparently, it was all going fine, until Bell overheard her daughter telling her conservative grandmother all about it!
The controversial podcast host has never been shy about his drug use, and he once experimented with mushrooms in a sensory deprivation tank, which he said changed his life.
Prince Harry's 2023 autobiography 'Spare' contains a number of mind-blowing revelations, but one of the most bizarre is that the royal once got high on mushrooms with Courteney Cox and various other celebrities while staying at her house in L.A. Harry writes that he was traveling in the US with a friend and was invited to stay at Cox's home. As a major 'Friends' fan the Prince was starstruck. "I was still confused because she was Monica, and I was a Chandler. I wondered if I’d ever work up the courage to tell her. Was there enough tequila in California to get me that brave?"
Later in the evening there was apparently a box of mushroom chocolates open on a table for everyone to share, so Harry and his friend "grabbed several, gobbled them, washed them down with tequila." As the psychedelics took effect, he became entranced by a pedal bin in the bathroom that started to look like a face. "I stepped on the pedal and the head opened its mouth," he writes. "A huge open grin. I laughed."
The Smith family has always been alternative when it comes to lifestyle and parenting choices. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have close relationships with their kids, Jaden and Willow, and it seems like no topic is off the table. Jada Pinkett Smith has been open about her use of psychedelics as a successful part of her treatment for depression. Jaden Smith have spoken at the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver on June 23, explaining that her experiences slowly introduced the practice to the family. "It was just her for a really, really long time and then eventually it just trickled and evolved and everybody found it in their own way," he explained.
Jaden believes that taking psychedelics with his siblings, Willow and half-brother Trey Smith, has brought them much closer. "Siblings can argue so much and fight so much, and lord knows me and my siblings have done so much of that in the past," he explained. "But the level of love and empathy that I can feel for them inside of the [psychedelic] experiences and outside of the experiences has been something that's profound and beautiful."
The stigma surrounding the use of psychedelic drugs has gradually diminished over the years, particularly as research reveals more about how they can be used to treat mental illnesses like anxiety, depression, and PTSD. More and more celebrities feel comfortable speaking openly about their experiences with psychedelics without so much risk to their reputations, and many shared their stories in the 2020 Netflix documentary 'Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics.'
Click through to see some famous faces who have been open about their experiences with psychedelics.
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Jaden Smith says mom Jada Pinkett Smith introduced psychedelics to the family
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The stigma surrounding the use of psychedelic drugs has gradually diminished over the years, particularly as research reveals more about how they can be used to treat mental illnesses like anxiety, depression, and PTSD. More and more celebrities feel comfortable speaking openly about their experiences with psychedelics without so much risk to their reputations, and many shared their stories in the 2020 Netflix documentary 'Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics.'
Click through to see some famous faces who have been open about their experiences with psychedelics.