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LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab
September 27, 2009 - San Francisco Chronicle
LSD, the drug that launched the psychedelic era and became one of the resounding symbols of the counterculture movement of the '60s, is back in the labs.
Nearly 40 years after widespread fear over recreational abuse of LSD and other hallucinogens forced dozens of scientists to abandon their work, researchers at a handful of major institutions - including UCSF and Harvard University - are reigniting studies. Scientists started looking at less controversial drugs, like ecstasy and magic mushrooms, in the late 1990s, but LSD studies only began about a year ago and are still rare.
The study at UCSF, which is being run by a UC Berkeley graduate student, is looking into the mechanisms of LSD and how it works in the brain. The hope is that such research might support further studies into medical applications of LSD - for chronic headaches, for example - or psychiatric uses.
"Psychedelics are in labs all over the world and there's a lot of promise," said Rick Doblin, director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in Santa Cruz. "The situation with LSD is that because it was the quintessential symbol of the '60s, it was the last to enter the lab."
LSD - lysergic acid diethylamide - is a synthetic psychedelic drug and one of the strongest hallucinogens in the world.
Created in Switzerland in 1938, LSD was used primarily for psychiatric research through the next couple of decades before it burst onto the counterculture scene as a recreational drug.
Harvard University Professor Timothy Leary, along with a handful of scientists, began promoting LSD use for the psychedelic trips. With a fairly small dose, users discovered they could experience vivid visual hallucinations and altered consciousness. But as recreational use increased, so did cases of users having negative and even dangerous experiences with the drug, especially when they mixed LSD with other drugs.
Polarizing issue
Researchers were using LSD to explore treatment into everything from alcoholism and drug addiction to anxiety in cancer patients. But as notoriety of the drug spread, it became a polarizing issue among serious scientists, many of whom abandoned their research.
In 1966, the federal government made LSD illegal, and by the early 1970s, research into all psychedelic drugs in humans had come to a halt, although some scientists continued to study the drugs in animals.
"What poisoned the well was the widespread abuse being promoted by scientists to the public," said Dr. John Mendelson, an associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at UCSF who is helping run the LSD study. "That put a lot of researchers off, and it made it very hard for researchers to justify getting back into the field. And there were no pressing health needs, no pressing treatments other than curiosity."
Researchers at UCLA were among the first to return to hallucinogen studies, starting with the drug ecstasy about 10 years ago. Research into psychedelic drugs expanded, with prominent labs around the country studying ecstasy and natural hallucinogens like psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, and peyote.
But LSD, still in disrepute, remained off-limits. The first studies involving LSD in human subjects started last year at Harvard University, and the UCSF study is only the second in the country. At Harvard, scientists are studying potential uses of LSD to treat cluster headaches - chronic headaches that affect sufferers during months-long cycles several times a year.
The federal government never banned LSD outright for use in research, but for decades it was nearly impossible to get funding or federal approval.
As research into hallucinogens has slowly picked up, private and nonprofit groups have sprung up to seek funding sources.
It still isn't easy to get an LSD study off the ground. Researchers must get permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration plus state regulators, and they need approval from the institution they work for. Then they have to get approval for the source of the actual drug - in the case of UCSF, researchers are using LSD that was manufactured years ago in Switzerland.
Regulatory maze
"Getting through the regulatory maze is quite daunting. It's taken me years to build a system where the FDA and DEA and everyone are happy with how we do our work," Mendelson said. "You have to have a very safe protocol. It's a very cautious system."
Even finding participants for the studies can be a difficult process. The UC researchers usually have to screen 100 volunteers before they can find one who meets their needs. Subjects must have done LSD at least a couple of times before, Mendelson said.
"You don't want people who are looking for a legal way to get a first experience," he said. "This isn't fun. There's no Grateful Dead music playing. This is serious business."
Stanislav Grof was one of the last scientists to abandon hallucinogenic research when he shut down several projects at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in 1973 after his funding dried up. He moved to California to work at a research institute in Big Sur, where he turned to studies about how to re-create the effects of those drugs through meditation and breathing techniques.
Mixed feelings
Now semiretired and living in Mill Valley, Grof said he has mixed feelings about the re-emergence of hallucinogen studies. He's pleased to see some of the stigma falling away from drugs like LSD, but it bothers him that the scientific community lost decades of research.
"I thought psychiatry and psychology really lost a major opportunity because of the abuse that happened with unsupervised research," Grof said. "These are fascinating substances - and they're very, very powerful, so they should be used with great precaution."
* Related article: Return of a 'Problem Child'
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 Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: veggie]
#11137436 - 09/27/09 03:47 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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I want to be a lab rat in some LSD testing, thanks.
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: GetTheFuckOut]
#11137544 - 09/27/09 04:14 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: GetTheFuckOut]
#11137552 - 09/27/09 04:17 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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I want to be a lab rat in some LSD testing, thanks.
I wouldn't mind receiving 1000 mics intravenously.
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#11137600 - 09/27/09 04:29 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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I want to be a lab rat in some LSD testing, thanks.
I wouldn't mind receiving 1000 mics intravenously.
I second this
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#11137615 - 09/27/09 04:32 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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Scientists started looking at less controversial drugs, like ecstasy and magic mushrooms
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: PreparationH]
#11139269 - 09/27/09 09:43 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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I want to be a lab rat in some LSD testing, thanks.
I wouldn't mind receiving 1000 mics intravenously.
I second this
yeah buddy!
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: veggie]
#11139517 - 09/27/09 10:17 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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Yeah, stupid Timothy Leary. What a douche
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: StevenMichael]
#11139972 - 09/27/09 11:27 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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Yeah, stupid Timothy Leary. What a douche
he thought he knew but he had no idea...like i think he totally had the right idea,a nd it hink he did good stuff but basically telling people to do what they want and to drop out and take as many drugs as they can created the contraversy, i think if a more gentle approach to LSD and any psychedelic were taken we would be in a position where we would know a lot more about these drugs because scientists back then would not just think it was some party drug and they would have done a lot more research....and junk
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: Invisible_Woe]
#11140086 - 09/27/09 11:43 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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more research....and junk
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: StevenMichael]
#11140118 - 09/27/09 11:48 PM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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Yeah, stupid Timothy Leary. What a douche
not to mention ken kesey and his band of merry wankers. they really screwed things up, the fucking idiots
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: 13shrooms]
#11140413 - 09/28/09 12:25 AM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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more research....and junk
im glad someone thought that was funny.
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: GetTheFuckOut]
#11140934 - 09/28/09 01:53 AM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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GTFO said:
I want to be a lab rat in some LSD testing, thanks.
Right on! We'll be cagemates ;D
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: veggie]
#11140939 - 09/28/09 01:54 AM (10 months, 30 days ago) |
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Stanislav Grof was one of the last scientists to abandon hallucinogenic research when he shut down several projects at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in 1973 after his funding dried up. He moved to California to work at a research institute in Big Sur, where he turned to studies about how to re-create the effects of those drugs through meditation and breathing techniques.
I wouldn't mind seeing the results of those studies.
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#11142093 - 09/28/09 09:13 AM (10 months, 29 days ago) |
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Stanislav Grof was one of the last scientists to abandon hallucinogenic research when he shut down several projects at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in 1973 after his funding dried up. He moved to California to work at a research institute in Big Sur, where he turned to studies about how to re-create the effects of those drugs through meditation and breathing techniques.
I wouldn't mind seeing the results of those studies.
look up: holotropic breathwork
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#11144020 - 09/28/09 04:12 PM (10 months, 29 days ago) |
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Lucy of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' fame dies
AP, Sep 28, 2009 10:45 am PDT
Lucy Vodden, who provided the inspiration for the Beatles' classic song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," has died after a long battle with lupus. She was 46.
Her death was announced Monday by St. Thomas' Hospital in London, where she had been treated for the chronic disease for more than five years, and by her husband, Ross Vodden. Britain's Press Association said she died last Tuesday. Hospital officials said they could not confirm the day of her death..
Vodden's connection to the Beatles dates back to her early days, when she made friends with schoolmate Julian Lennon, John Lennon's son..
Julian Lennon, then 4 years old, came home from school with a drawing one day, showed it to his father, and said it was "Lucy in the sky with diamonds.".
At the time, John Lennon was gathering material for his contributions to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," a landmark album released to worldwide acclaim in 1967..
The elder Lennon seized on the image and developed it into what is widely regarded as a psychedelic masterpiece, replete with haunting images of "newspaper taxis" and a "girl with kaleidoscope eyes.".
Rock music critics thought the song's title was a veiled reference to LSD, but John Lennon always claimed the phrase came from his son, not from a desire to spell out the initials LSD in code..
Vodden lost touch with Julian Lennon after he left the school following his parents' divorce, but they were reunited in recent years when Julian Lennon, who lives in France, tried to help her cope with the disease..
He sent her flowers and vouchers for use at a gardening center near her home in Surrey in southeast England, and frequently sent her text messages in an effort to buttress her spirits..
"I wasn't sure at first how to approach her," Julian Lennon told the Associated Press in June. "I wanted at least to get a note to her. Then I heard she had a great love of gardening, and I thought I'd help with something she's passionate about, and I love gardening too. I wanted to do something to put a smile on her face.".
In recent months, Vodden was too ill to go out most of the time, except for hospital visits..
She enjoyed her link to the Beatles, but was not particularly fond of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.".
"I don't relate to the song, to that type of song," she told the Associated Press in June. "As a teenager, I made the mistake of telling a couple of friends at school that I was the Lucy in the song and they said, 'No, it's not you, my parents said it's about drugs.' And I didn't know what LSD was at the time, so I just kept it quiet, to myself.".
Vodden is the latest in a long line of people connected to the Beatles who died at a relatively young age..
The list includes John Lennon, gunned down at age 40, manager Brian Epstein, who died of a drug overdose when he was 32, and original band member Stuart Sutcliffe, who died of a brain hemorrhage at 21..
A spokeswoman for Julian Lennon and his mother, Cynthia Lennon, said they were "shocked and saddened" by Vodden's death..
Angie Davidson, a lupus sufferer who is campaign director of the St. Thomas' Lupus Trust, said Vodden was "a real fighter" who had worked behind the scenes to support efforts to combat the disease..
"It's so sad that she has finally lost the battle she fought so bravely for so long," said Davidson..
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: Ingrimus]
#11148582 - 09/29/09 07:13 AM (10 months, 28 days ago) |
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GTFO said:
I want to be a lab rat in some LSD testing, thanks.
Right on! We'll be cagemates ;D
you sneak in a bottle of whiskey, and ill sneak in the pot. just remember to clench yer ass when you cough...
oh wait.. it isn't jail 
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ythan, you rock dude. i feel that my time at the shroomery was very positive and enjoyable, but this site is no longer for me. im not mad or upset or disappointed, i just want no part in a pg rated faggot festival.
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Re: LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab [CA] [Re: veggie]
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"This isn't fun. There's no Grateful Dead music playing. This is serious business."
Sounds like my internet.
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