National Geographic Explorer spoke with researchers who believe that the “trippy” drug, LSD, could become a pharmaceutical of the future. They believe that it may enhance brain power, expand creativity, and cure disease.

Below is another fascinating talk on how psychedelic drugs work on the brain.

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” – Terence McKenna