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LSD or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Welcome Death
12 years ago
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Welcome our newest and finest part of the crew, Anne Bonny! They're basically an expert researcher and know both the science and the experience of most if not all chemicals. If you see a journal posted by Anne Bonny, you will most definitely learn some really knowledgeable and phenomenal information! Once again, I appreciate you, Anne, for being an officer of Under the Influence.
The first set of controlled studies on Lysergic Acid Diethylamide in over 40 years were recently released in the 2014 Journal Of Nervous and Mental Disease. The study aimed at the possible treatment of "anxiety, depression, as well as unresolved family and relationship issues" affiliated with life-threatening illnesses, such as cancer. Of the 12 terminally ill patients chosen, none had previously been diagnosed with any psychiatric disorders nor had any of the patients had a history with drug or alcohol abuse. The LSD was used in congruence with "talk therapy," a familiar LSD infused exercise employed by swiss psychiatrists of the 50s and 60s, as well as that weird fucking Elf Tim Leary. (See: Concord Prison Experiment)
One non-Leary related example of a successful LSD medical experiment from yesteryear would have to be that of Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Supervised by the likes of Gerald Heard, Betty Eisner, and even fucking Aldous Huxley (author of The Doors of Perception, a book documenting his experiments with mescaline.) Bill claimed the experience enabled him to better overcome his own alcoholism and regain his spirituality. Bill W. was quoted saying "It is a generally acknowledged fact in spiritual development that ego reduction makes the influx of God's grace possible. If, therefore, under LSD we can have a temporary reduction, so that we can better see what we are and where we are going, well, that might be of some help. The goal might become clearer. So I consider LSD to be of some value to some people, and practically no damage to anyone."
That was in the 1950s.
Today, it seems many are working hard to bring hallucinogens and other commonly demonized substances back into mainstream psychiatry and medicine. Between the progressive legalization of marijuana for medical purposes, using Ibogaine to cure opiate addiction, giving PTSD sufferers MDMA and this onset of LSD studies regarding people nearing death, things are looking up for our modern world.
Pertaining to the LSD experiments, Rick Doblin (executive director of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) says "We want to break these substances out of the mold of the counterculture and bring them back to the lab as part of a psychedelic renaissance."
Bring on the renaissance.
~Anne Bonny
The first set of controlled studies on Lysergic Acid Diethylamide in over 40 years were recently released in the 2014 Journal Of Nervous and Mental Disease. The study aimed at the possible treatment of "anxiety, depression, as well as unresolved family and relationship issues" affiliated with life-threatening illnesses, such as cancer. Of the 12 terminally ill patients chosen, none had previously been diagnosed with any psychiatric disorders nor had any of the patients had a history with drug or alcohol abuse. The LSD was used in congruence with "talk therapy," a familiar LSD infused exercise employed by swiss psychiatrists of the 50s and 60s, as well as that weird fucking Elf Tim Leary. (See: Concord Prison Experiment)
One non-Leary related example of a successful LSD medical experiment from yesteryear would have to be that of Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Supervised by the likes of Gerald Heard, Betty Eisner, and even fucking Aldous Huxley (author of The Doors of Perception, a book documenting his experiments with mescaline.) Bill claimed the experience enabled him to better overcome his own alcoholism and regain his spirituality. Bill W. was quoted saying "It is a generally acknowledged fact in spiritual development that ego reduction makes the influx of God's grace possible. If, therefore, under LSD we can have a temporary reduction, so that we can better see what we are and where we are going, well, that might be of some help. The goal might become clearer. So I consider LSD to be of some value to some people, and practically no damage to anyone."
That was in the 1950s.
Today, it seems many are working hard to bring hallucinogens and other commonly demonized substances back into mainstream psychiatry and medicine. Between the progressive legalization of marijuana for medical purposes, using Ibogaine to cure opiate addiction, giving PTSD sufferers MDMA and this onset of LSD studies regarding people nearing death, things are looking up for our modern world.
Pertaining to the LSD experiments, Rick Doblin (executive director of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) says "We want to break these substances out of the mold of the counterculture and bring them back to the lab as part of a psychedelic renaissance."
Bring on the renaissance.
~Anne Bonny
That's what happened in '66. These studies are performed under close physician care and if anything, I think a lot of people have learned from the mistakes made in our past and how the general public can potentially view these substances.
Stupid people aren't going anywhere, but neither is LSD. And sometimes, LSD isn't as pure as it could be, nor is it actually LSD, albeit being sold as such. A lot of deaths have been attributed to this. Imagine if there was a safe way to knowingly obtain these pure chemicals? And become more generally educated upon them? That's a world I'd rather live in. And as stated, psychological evaluations were performed for the patients who participated. If they were deemed unfit, they did not go through with the study.
~Anne