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Offlinedbd1784
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The Future of Psychedelics?
    #5263872 - 02/04/06 07:42 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I was wondering what everyone's opinion was to what they think will be the future of psychedelics?


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Re: The Future of Psychedelics? [Re: dbd1784]
    #5264066 - 02/04/06 08:18 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Alexander T. Shulgin did an interview on just this topic.
Might as well see what the man himself has to say: The Future of Psychedelics, An interview with "Sasha" Shulgin


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Re: The Future of Psychedelics? [Re: veggie]
    #5264303 - 02/04/06 09:23 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

can someone summarize the interview? i would guess a shitload of research chemicals. thats about it=[


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Re: The Future of Psychedelics? [Re: dbd1784]
    #5264813 - 02/04/06 11:43 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I would say more variety in drugs and effects. Drugs to make you smarter and live longer and all those things in between. If we only put work into it, we could make compounds that could produce any of our infinite levels of consciousness, I think.

Honestly Psychedelics seem to hold their niche and have since they have been around as they are now. It is question as to whether mankind will really wake up and recognize these amazing substances for what they really are. Psy schools, how amazing those would be. For some reason Akira comes to mind... :wink:


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Re: The Future of Psychedelics? [Re: mecreateme]
    #5265302 - 02/05/06 03:54 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)
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Psychedelic Mushrooms in the 21th Century

written by wiccan_seeker
January 31, 2006



THE PAST
About fifty years ago, on June 19 of 1955 the Mexican curandera of Mazatec descent Maria Sabina introduced R. Gordon Wasson and Allan Richardson, and with them the dominant world culture, to the virtues of entheogenic mushrooms. It took three years before one of the world's finest scientists, Albert Hofmann, discovered the chemistry behind the miracle when he in 1958 isolated psilocybin, the phosphate ester of the psilocin (4-hydroxy-dimethyltryptamine) which gives rise to the entheogenic state these mushrooms produce.

Then came the era of medical investigation, followed in the 1960s by the first psychedelic wave, the acid era, where psilocybin (from a mushroom) and mescaline (from a cactus) played second violin to LSD (from Ergot of Rye fungus) in introducing much of the world to the psychedelic experience which proved it could be anything from disastrous to transcendent, but most often beneficially life-changing for those who took them. Because of the widespread use and abuse these entheogens were soon illegalized as ?drugs without medical use? which was a doubtlessly a political move as medical use was very promising, fruitful and expansive until the legal gate slammed shut.

In the early 1970s it became known that many kinds of mushrooms all over the world contain psilocin and psilocybin, and the 1970s were the era of the mushroom hunters, a small subculture which gathered their mushrooms in obscurity.

The 1980s brought the advent of the cultivation era, where increasingly convenient cultivation methods for entheogenic mushrooms became available to the general public. Another entheogen, MDMA (derived from sassafras roots) was steadily on the rise and suddenly broke through in Dallas, Texas, and from there took the world by storm, rekindling the interest of the general public for entheogenic substances. In asia, some restaurants for tourists started offering side-dishes containing locally picked, and later specially cultivated entheogenic mushrooms to their customers to enhance their dining experience and, no doubt, prolong their stay in and appreciation of the restaurant.


THE PRESENT
The 1990s until present became the era of the second psychedelic wave, the shroom boom, and this time it was dominated by psilocybian mushrooms, for which there now were drastically simplified cultivation procedures which spread knowledge of the Mushroom to the four corners of the earth with the speed of the electron, soaring through cables and bouncing off satellites using the Internet as it had used word of mouth before and the printed word thereafter.

With all essential knowledge and native psilocybian mushrooms as well as user populations present in all the nations of the world the mushroom got beyond legislation around the turn of the millennium. No suppression effort any or even all nations could put up could do anything except perhaps cause a slight delay in the rise of the Mushroom which had become inevitable. By the year 2000 the planet already was colonized, and ever since we have seen nothing but the mycelial mat growing denser and denser still.

With LSD suppression was relatively easy. LSD required high technology and access to strategic materials which could be reasonably controlled. With mushrooms this is impossible: The strategic material is mushroom spores, and it is omnipresent in nature all over the world. When it is grown on a handful of grain or rice it will produce one dose, when it is grown on a bale of straw it will produce a thousand doses, and a billion-fold of mushroom spores. The Internet has spread the essential knowledge and it now, like the spores and their substrate, is everywhere. On the computer screen, the web and harddrive, the floppy, the disc and DVD, rolling out of printers and in the minds of a million people all across the globe.

The Mushroom has done what Ergot of Rye could not ? to conquer the world and meet all demand, all of the time, without the slightest chance of suppression.


WHAT THE FUTURE MAY HOLD
As far as is known, no culture who discovered entheogenic substances has ever abandoned them. With the dominant world culture spanning the globe and billions of people, it is unlikely that this will happen. Since a microgram of spores, cultivated on the foods we eat or the wastes thereof, can produce an unlimited amount of entheogen which is directly consumable and has nutritional value, the mushroom that has been with us for thousands of years will likely be us for thousands more, and be the most likely candidate to be taken with us when we reach for the planets and eventually the stars. But instead of looking at a possible distant future in reverie, let us first look at a near future which is quite realistic.

Let us first look at demand, because demand is the motor behind supply and supply, as we have established, is limitless and guaranteed. In Holland mushrooms are legally sold in shops for about 13 years now. The Dutch government had the safety and social impact of these mushrooms extensively researched without bias and they were found to be benign, thus making them legal but under scrutiny. According to a government statistic usage initially was high, but has decreased a bit to the point of 0.3% of people having used it in the past month, 1.3% in the past year and 7.6% of people have used it in their lifetime which might indicate a user base of ~0.5% exists in the Dutch population. When looking at Amazon tribes using snuffs containing dimethyltryptamine (one oxygen apart from psilocin) one might conclude that usage of psilocybin might ultimately stabilize between 0.5-10% of the world population.

Moderate use of psilocybian mushrooms does not invite to frequent use or produces a need for increased dosages and the only serious adverse effect in healthy people, anxiety and confusional responses during the drug effect, are transient, partly dose dependent and can be overcome by learning how to manage the experience due to repeated use. The desirable effects range from an amusingly odd state to a complete euphoria and even beneficially life-changing experiences are generated with some frequency. It takes a degree of sophistication to use these mushrooms effectively, but this degree of difficulty is comparable to that of other inebriants (such as alcohol) where it comes to dosing, and learning to manage the experience of magnified consciousness teaches valuable life skills in learning how to cope with the adversities and turmoil which sober life occasionally present.
These characteristics make it likely that ultimate usage of these mushrooms or psilocybin will ultimately will be in the populational range of several percent.

The use of inebriants for recreation, insight or religious purposes is as old as recorded history. It is a steady flow that will not halt no matter what is done. Every day, a thousand humans will use so-many doses of inebriant regardless of legal status or cultural taboo. It is a steady flow that predates and will outlive legislation. We must accept that we cannot stop the river, but what we can do is change it's course. It would be beneficial that as many as possible of the inevitably consumed doses are of a low-risk inebriant which will reduce personal, social and societal harm.
Entheogenic mushrooms are among the few inebriants that meet such criteria, and it does this without issues associated with clandestine chemistry or necessary involvement of organized crime. The average mentally sound user will, given unlimited supply, by himself use merely a handful of dried mushrooms or a hundred milligrams of isolated psilocybin in a year, and typically suffer no serious adverse effects beyond periods of anxiety during the main effect. Fortunately, the demand for this entheogen, with its personal, social and societal advantages over other inebriants, is definitively on the rise.

As for Supply, it has been pointed out before that supply of mushrooms with the resources as they are now in place is essentially limitless. Mushroom spores can be collected from the wild and can produce a limitless amount of mushrooms and a millionfold of spores for further cultivation. A single portion of bought or gathered mushrooms contains ample spores to learn how to cultivate the mushrooms and meet one's needs. The essential skills needed to grow mushrooms, and thus become independent of external supply, can be acquired in a single afternoon or printed on a single sheet of paper.

The pattern which is emerging in developed nations is that you on one hand have a few large producers , but on the other hand you have many home cultivators which cultivate to meet their needs and that of selected friends, supplying them not just with the perhaps ten doses a mushroom user uses a year but also teaching them how to grow, spreading the techniques like wildfire. This essentially decentralizes the supply and decriminalizes it in the sense that there is no cash flow towards organized crime for procuring these mushrooms. This, moreover, decreases the number of exposures to availability of more dangerous inebriants.

A new development will probably be involvement of the developing nations, which will probably saturate the world market with crystalline psilocybin isolated from domestic clandestine mushroom farms.

Developing nations typically produce alot of grain for domestic consumption. Psilocybe cubensis, the most readily cultivated psilocybian mushroom, is native to just about the entire (sub)tropic zone where these nations typically are located. The mushrooms can be gathered from the wild, grown on the grain and used to spawn the straw of that grain. Grain alcohol can then be used to extract psilocybin from the dried mushrooms.

At a wholesale market value of perhaps $500.000/kg crystalline psilocybin will produce a high value commodity for the developing nations tapping existing and unstoppable resources. It is entirely unrealistic that the population of developing nations will not rise to the occasion, and given the current socioeconomic situation that exists in the world today it is entirely defensible. The monetary flow generated would go directly towards the grassroots of the economies of the developing countries, rather than straight towards those without need.

Currently there is a world market for perhaps 1 ton psilocybin annually, assuming 0.1% users using [16.6mg x 10] annually, but this may readily rise to 10 tons or a multifold thereof netting billions, and ultimately perhaps tens of billions of dollars wholesale.

With the advent of crystalline psilocybin and given the current prominence of pills the psilocybin pill will probably claim its place beside the ecstasy tablet and the LSD blotter as a mass-produced entheogen, offering dosage reliability, convenience of ingestion and storage stability over the dried mushroom material.

Because of the advances in home cultivation techniques in recent times the legal suppression of LSD will gradually collapse in on itself as Ergot of Rye can now be grown with relative ease, thus freeing the strategic materials for LSD manufacture from the government-imposed suppression. But because the manufacture of LSD is a laboratory process instead of mere cultivation and extraction of psilocybin, the psychedelic mushroom which has taken back the prominent position among entheogens it held for thousands of years will probably take hold of the dominant world culture and transform it into an entheogenic culture before this century is out.

In the last century advancement of the brain has taken prominence in dominant culture, and developments such as the internet have provided a wealth of information from all over the world to be available on request to over a billion people. Entheogens, essentially magnifiers of consciousness, are the only inebriant that enhances information processing within the brain, and do so in an experience which, if properly managed, ranges from interesting to life-changingly beneficial, which may prove vital in the advancement of humanity.

And it is all happening right now, and the Mushroom may restore our society to become an entheogenic culture once more in the decades to come.
It has already begun.


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Re: The Future of Psychedelics? [Re: Asante]
    #5265555 - 02/05/06 09:26 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

great write-up.


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Re: The Future of Psychedelics? [Re: mushiemountain]
    #11334241 - 10/27/09 07:53 PM (14 years, 3 months ago)

For the sake of whatever god is (if it is) I hope I can grow my own psychedelics and have acess to substances that expand consciousness in the presence of immanent tyranny.


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