Psychedelics for Adults?

"Oh, God. No. We have to... –and there are people sitting there on top of it. Right?"

― pplains, Wednesday, November 26, 2014 8:03 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg i haven't laughed this hard in at least two weeks

that series of pics and captions is my favourite thing on ILX in a long time

Using psychedelics to treat mental issues is something we could have been doing for the past 50 years. Timothy Leary was working on these types of experiments when the War on Drugs started and pretty much shut out all research from then on out. In light of the extreme profitability of the pharmaceutical industry and medical industry in marketing psychoactive drugs in recent years, it seems more and more like a huge mistake. Legitimate research was halted and the general populace was left to self-medicate, often resorting to dangerous/underground sources. Drugs were explicitly tied to the counterculture in the media, tho obviously lots of authority figures used/abused/profited from these substances.

How come alcohol is legal and mushrooms are illegal? Both impair judgement, both shouldn't be consumed while operating a heavy vehicle. There is some deliberate propaganda at work for why certain substances are legal and others are not. Alcohol tends to make users less trustworthy and self-aware than psychedelics. Alcohol makes users territorial and violent compared to psychedelics. The main study Timothy Leary was working on when the War on Drugs began and his career cut short was on treating violent criminal populations, and he found the recidivism rates were significantly dropping. The study ended largely due to the influence of the California private penal system.

I've been reading a little about microdosing LSD and psilocybin and it sounds interesting but I wouldn't even know where to start looking for psychedelics today.

http://phish.com/tours/
http://umphreys.com/tour/
http://stringcheeseincident.com/tour/
http://www.moe.org/tour_date/
http://allgoodfestival.com/

Try asking these guys

http://telesmaband.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/slide-bandimage2.jpg

Wait, Phish didn't break up?

For about 4 years. They came back in 2008.

But which guy to ask?

The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide – Risks, Micro-Dosing, Ibogaine, and More

https://vimeo.com/211758157

Been thinking about this guy all weekend.

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lol^^

anyway i have had a strong urge to do psychedelics lately

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/05/08/denver-becomes-the-first-u-s-city-to-effectively-decriminalize-psilocybin-mushrooms-outlawed-by-the-u-s-government-since-1970/

most important element there is the opportunity for clinical testing to happen.
was talking with a psych nurse a few nights back who said that intranasal doses of ketamine were the first major new drug for clinical depression in years and that stuff can only be given under heavy supervision, strong possibility of addiction, genuine dangers for long term use. with psilocybin, there's something cheap, easy to make, non-habit forming, impossible to od on, that has thousands of years of testing and immense potential benefit but nowhere to legally run trials. here's hoping docs jump on that immediately.

there is lot of phase 2 and 3 clinical testing for psilocybin already happening

https://maps.org/other-psychedelic-research/211-psilocybin-research/psilocybin-studies-in-progress/research/psilo/passiepsilocybin1.html%7D

not seeing anything there for long term use as an antidepressant which is what I'm hoping happens

that bob ross vimeo, holy shit

There are a bunch of psilocybin studies going on as a treatment for depression! FDA approved clinical trials in U.S. last summer, but it was already underway in UK/Canada/Netherlands

Ok then glad to hear! I think doing them with a broader test group over a lengthy period is going to produce some convincing studies!

https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-major-depression-mdd-usona-breakthrough-therapy-fda
maybe we'll see something on the market by 2021? Or at least a revamping of the laws.

This is excellent news

with psilocybin, there's something (...) impossible to od on

I've been wanting to do some psychedelics again for a while but yeah, it's been well over 20 years. I took acid probably a 100 times before that and only ever had 2 bad trips and I used to take it alone a lot as well. But I don't think I'd do that these days.

Man I'd do acid every night if twere possible

would be great if it only lasted like 4 hours and you felt fine afterward

There's an LSD-like research chem that lasts about that long, I think.

hook me up milo

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