Opening Wednesday at New York’s IFC Film Center with Emmy-winning director Michel Negroponte and other filmmakers and subjects in tow, I’m Dangerous With Love peels back the controversial layers of addiction and treatment while hoping to dispel paranoia about hallucinogenic therapy. The naturally occurring ibogaine has been routinely used for centuries by African shamans, and is perhaps fated to join other Schedule I drugs like LSD and Ecstasy in healing what has become a global village shocked and awed into persistent post-traumatic stress disorder.
I’m Dangerous With Love, which chronicles Mugianis’ attempts to procure and evangelize ibogaine, has scored an enthusiastic endorsement from documentary stalwart D.A. Pennebaker ( Don’t Look Back). A DVD release is due later this spring.
Screen the scene above and let us know in the comments section below if you think it’s high time, pardon the pun, that earthlings got over their hallucinogenic hang-ups. Or not.
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