Sacrificing Your Life for MDMA | HAMILTON'S PHARMACOPEIA

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Experimental chemist Steven Gill sacrificed his life and freedom for the synthesis of MDMA and other psychedelics.

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All Comments (21)
  • Golden teachers has been my go-to mushroom for months, it has helped in my recovery journey
  • MDMA, lsd and psilocybin containing mushroom are amazing. I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with ADHD. Spent my whole life fighting ADHD. I suffered severe anxiety and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
  • MDMA doesn't give us love, it temporarily takes away the barriers to the love we always have inside
  • @HorHaynEss
    That moment when he articulated why he deserves some recognition, was a trip.
  • @novictim
    As someone with a life long struggle of social anxiety caused by autism, god bless this man. I always felt odd, weird, and uninterested in people. MDMA made me realize the importance of expressing myself and listening, and FEELING others. MDMA doesn't ruin lives, it builds them. Edit: if anyone reads this, educate yourself about the risks, dangers and studies PRIOR to consumption.
  • Psychedelics saved my life. They drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quit illicit pill addiction after years of heavy use before it would had become medically dangerous to quit. It also helped me survive depression.
  • Psychedelics killed my drug and alcohol dependencies - one trip two years ago to purge my depression and chronic anxiety from my system was the best decision I ever made. I've done psilocybin mushrooms a few times since, but after my last high dose trip I realized that the medicine has taught me enough for now. I might return to psychedelics later in my life if I ever need the reminder or find a reliable source
  • @FromTheMosh
    Just one MDMA experience totally changed my life for the better. The effects have lasted permanently. I've learnt to love my family again, my bonds with my friends are stronger than ever and I've was able to come out of my shell and be myself..... finally.
  • Psilocybin, LSD, shrooms and ketamine are absolutely life changing substances that have so much potential to help people with mental health issues.
  • @MrCmon113
    I teared up in the end. I didn't realize it before Hamilton made it explicit: this man did an unimaginable ammount of good.
  • As someone whose taken quite a bit of MDMA and psychedelics, NONE of it ever helped me break any ceilings or 4th walls. Tbh, it wasn’t until I got off all mind altering substances and tried life free from chemicals that I started to unlock all that I Am capable of. Meditation, coupled with therapy, counseling, breath work, exercise, diet and SLEEP… all go further than MDMA and psychedelics ever did. It’s been over a decade since I’ve medicated myself with any of these substances and I can’t tell others enough how grateful I am for that. I know I didn’t choose the easier way, but I was becoming consumed and obsessed with finding the answer for my depression, anxiety, hysteria, anger, etc… outside of me. The trips and psych’s only temporarily worked and gave me a false sense of insight. But in days, weeks, maybe a month or so later… I’d be craving that fix again. I think these episodes on this only tell a part of the story. A part of the unhealed and immature mind that doesn’t want to go within and look at the self, in a sober light, and will always look outside of themself for the answer. I’ve seen true peace. And it’s when I cut the psychedelics and MDMA out that I really saw myself for who I Am today.
  • dude might have saved my life and the lives of countless others with severe anxiety and ptsd
  • @DudesIn101
    For what it's worth,I appreciate your time and knowledge and thanks for all the great times!
  • I tried some very good mdma a few days ago for the first time.I could even see some of the crystals that werent smashed properly into powder. It was a wonderful experience.
  • Mdma has got me through very tough, dark times but when things got better I stopped just quit without ever having cravings. I'm heading towards 2 years without it.
  • @VulkanYT
    We need more Hamilton! Why are they stopping his stuff? Its genuinely the most indepth analysis of drugs or things Ive ever seen on the accessable web. Like his work probably promotes safe drug use by showing the bad sides and good sides to things and people learn alot about how these things work and how to stay safe. Its kinda like a public service thing.