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Very well written, developed and well researched article. I forwarded it to some sceptic friends of mine.  Thanks for posting this! JBArk JBArk is a Mandelthought; a non-fiction character in a drama of his own design he calls "LIFE" who partakes in consciousness expanding activities and substances; he should in no way be confused with SWIM, who is an eminently data-mineable and prolific character who has somehow convinced himself the target he wears on his forehead is actually a shield.
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Wow. Its about time people start seeing the medicinal value in spice on a scientific level. I don't even understand why it was illegal to begin with.. "I am cursed by the blossoming knowledge of my feminine ideal and she looks suspiciously like you."
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -AE
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Ah, this is great.  This needs to happen. Responsible advocacy, so another medicine doesn't go down the drain, leaving potential thousands (millions) without something that could have made a change.  Spread the love.  In my country, the legal go-to psychoactive substance is ethanol. Sometimes my friends get wasted and tell the craziest stories about how they go out at night to harvest strange grasses in the light of the full moon. They claim to meet elves, white light and jaguars. These are their stories.
SMAOLK ZEBONG
Mon Ami, if you lose your inhibition we can take some extasy and DANCE!
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Probably risky for them to print such an article. Can only hope there will be more scientific research on the positive effects, because the cultural context brings it home easily for more people.
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Really great article. Especially this part I had no idea of: "I got notes from physicians and psychiatrists in the U.S. and Canada who have been using ayahuasca under the table in clinical practice and really support this work," says Rush. "I don't think I expected that." In one way I find it good, but I would like to know how they advise the patients to use it? Does it happen with some shaman who guides them through it? Last weekend I have had my first experience with ayahuasca and I must say the ceremony around it was so helpful. I hope this part won't be forgotten by our western society as I think it is vital. "It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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Great article, thanks for sharing, lifts morale to see this getting out there.
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