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Cool NY times article. That was 100% honest article. Refreshing.

See: When you allow science to show society that psychedelics are useful for medicine and research the attitude begins to shift. Gradually I think it will shift into general acceptance. Its already happening with cannabis.

Good stuff

great link, thanks for posting it!

Thanks for the link! This is how the tide could shift. Maybe not for recreation like us swims would like, but to help people deal with facing death, I think that they should be used to their full potential.

New article, Important publisher, Old News.

Wow I was just talking about this with my wife.

It's a shame everyone still points to Timothy Leary in the sense that psychedelics can be used as medicine for depression, anxiety, etc. Though I completely respect Mr. Leary, He turned the world against the idea of using them for psychotherapy. Once again, though, people are starting to try and wrap their minds around the idea that maybe, just maybe, a person CAN help themselves using just their mind, and a few tasty psychoactives.

Im still curious as to when they're going to start actually trying this at well known treatment facilities (and if they have, when theyre going to release the research results).

edit: further reading proved that im an idiot and should read all the article before I post.

40 years later, and newspaper reporters still don't understand the 'TO, TI, DO' slogan. It also makes it sound like Leary was solely responsible for getting them banned/illegalized. Sure, he got overeager and made some poor choices, but I don't think he did more harm than good. Hopefully the mainstream media re-evaluates T. Leary sometime in the next century. All that aside, good article and I am grateful for the positive attention.

“Imagine you fall off a boat out in the open ocean, and you turn around, and the boat is gone. And then the water’s gone. And then you’re gone.”

that was a great article.

Unfortunately, often, they wouldn't. Remember the stem cells?

Science showed that stemcells had almost unlimited potential for curing severe nerve damage. The problem is that super conservative religious dogmatism blocked progress in research.

Stem cells are multiplied in labs here in montreal as a direct result of that research. Not saying we'll see any lsd labs anytime soon...
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Great to see an article like this on a respected news web.
Thank you for the link

that's because people are ignorant and superstitious. rapid changes in technology and social climate are too much for narrow-minded simpletons to handle.

Great article. I hope its gonna be a good step toward the end of the drug war.

I also would dislike to see entheogen becoming legal only for a class of people (ex: psychologists or doctor) in clinical settings. Healing have to be legal for everybody.

There's currently active research into the actual science behind traditional and herbal remedies to determine which one's actually have medical use and what contraindictions may come into play. One of the main reasons behind this is that most people in the world simply cannot afford proper medical care, and would benefit greatly from being able to grow or prepare their own medicines. I think the same can apply in terms of psychiatric treatment, but that the criteria for psychiatric welfare would need to be reevaluated in the process.

SO refreshing to read... thank you once again for posting!

I think it will follow a general acceptable of personal psychedelic or recreational use after its been shown to be medically useful. The laws first of all would have to change from schedule I to at least II. So the penalties will go down. The public will care less and less about persecuting psychedelic drug users as long as another Manson family thing doesn't happen.

Just look at the case with cannabis. Its been proven clinically to have medical use. So more and more states are legalizing it for medical use. More and more states are also realizing fuck it why not just legalize the whole damn thing? California has a bill in the legislature right now for full legalization.

Great article.