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Don't Let Old Stigmas Prevent Medical Research on Hallucinogens
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http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/90799/don't_let_old_stigmas_prevent_medical_research_on_hallucinogens/

The following is an editorial from The Baltimore Sun's op-ed page.

Timothy Leary is smiling somewhere. More than 40 years after the U.S. government banned hallucinogens -- those dangerous hippie indulgences -- and scoffed at the Harvard psychologist and anyone else who suggested they might have a legitimate use, federal officials have become enlightened. The Food and Drug Administration has rightfully changed its stance on the research of psychedelic drugs.

Instead of continuing a policy of fear and loathing, the government is now open to the possibility that this class of drugs may have uses that don't involve turning on, tuning in and dropping out.

A new Johns Hopkins University study suggests that wild mushrooms or LSD may be helpful for victims of trauma or other psychological problems. The idea that psychotropic drugs may assist in psychotherapy is not new. In the late 1970s, several psychiatrists found that a new hallucinogen, Ecstasy, was useful in couples therapy, improving communication between partners. Although some of the methodology in these early studies has since been considered unreliable, more scientifically sound research has shown benefits of hallucinogens. Ecstasy wasn't banned until 1985.

Dr. Michael Mithoefer, a South Carolina psychiatrist, has been studying the effect of Ecstasy on victims of post-traumatic stress disorder. So far, all his test participants have reported that the therapy helped them in some way.

These studies are just the start of a long process to establish the efficacy of the drugs. Hopkins researchers would like to see how distressed cancer patients respond. If victims of PTSD could benefit, afflicted veterans from the Iraq war could help with the research. Those are two worthwhile recipients and reasons to support this research.

Instead of banning drugs that are perceived as bad simply because of their recreational use, scientists should be encouraged to pursue legitimate study -- lest we miss out on a valuable medicinal tool.

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Re: Don't Let Old Stigmas Prevent Medical Research on Hallucinogens [Re: janx]
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I am really so, so grateful for the attention being payed in the last year towards "psychedelic research".  So many people stand to benefit from the therapuetic application of psychedelic drugs, and the furtherance of their research. :sun: ~Pixie~


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Re: Don't Let Old Stigmas Prevent Medical Research on Hallucinogens [Re: Psuper]
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2008 has defiantly been a big year for psychedelics in terms of "mainstream" media coverage. It's always refreshing to read something like this, although I think it could have been written better..


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Re: Don't Let Old Stigmas Prevent Medical Research on Hallucinogens [Re: PsilocybinMike]
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Finally!

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Re: Don't Let Old Stigmas Prevent Medical Research on Hallucinogens [Re: janx]
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Well, that's interesting...

After the MK ULTRA project-- which was a debacle for its sponsors since none of the mind-altering substances they tested proved to be useful for the purpose of mass (or even individual) mind control-- they slammed the door shut on research. Nice to see it crack open once again.

Interestingly, Timothy Leary was himself once a part of the MK ULTRA effort. Guess he just got out from under control of the gubbament himself, eh? Hallucinogenic/Entheogenic/Whatever substances do have a tendency to make a body into a renegade, it seems.

Incidentally: Leary's experiments with the inmates in the Hartford prison involved psilocybin and not LSD, as various folks seem to think.

Hope the whole thing will be cool, but knowing our gubbament as I do, I wouldn't be surprised if this recent FDA research approval might not lead to the investigation of various substances for use as weapons, or to enhance troop performance in some other way. In addition to making PTSD dudes feel better, might not this ACID make the process of being interrogated worse for the subject of our attentions?

Hmmmm...

Never did trust the bastards. Never will.

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Re: Don't Let Old Stigmas Prevent Medical Research on Hallucinogens [Re: janx]
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Defiantly good news.

If the feds actually do drop the schedule from I to II for just a few of the hallucinogenics, it will be a big step in the right direction.

Maybe i will see semi legal hallucinogenics in my lifetime.

One can hope.


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