This is just great, hopefully people's image about psychedelics will change even more with this article:

http://www.scientificamerican.c...choactive-drug-research/

I hate that the Controlled Substances Act just decided, in its infinite wisdom, that so many substances have no medical value. How did they know that? If there are no tests, then no one can know that! It's horrendously stupid, and obviously intentionally designed to keep anyone from finding out the truth about these things. I am just glad that the truth prevails, and we now have articles such as this popping up everywhere!

This gives hope for the future! It's nothing short of a tragedy that the science Community for many decades seems to have been trying to do their best to almost completely ignore psychedelics and empathogens while substances like amphetamine, mythylphenidate and SSRI (with many both short and long term side effects) are sold to the public in enormous amounts.

Yes! The wave of rationality continues to sweep across the country!

It's now commonplace almost for voter initiatives to legalize marijuana.

We'll be seeing the legitimization of psychedelic use in therapy sooner than later. I swear, when I was younger, smoking pot behind closed and locked doors, I never thought I'd see the day...

it's not that they've been ignoring them, psych studies just wouldn't be funded as heavily by gov't grants; they're viewed as taboo, political suicide, {enter socio-political cliché here} etc., etc.

the meds you've listed have already been through the scrutiny of peer-review and bureaucratic red tape to get to where they are today

As good of an idea as i think it sounds, i cant help but think even if they make a breakthrough in some way, big corporations wont end up perverting things and taking more power than they already have. And in the end they will rape what they need from the plants or substances without respect. just my opinion,

Yes I had thought of that as well. I have even read somewhere that Monsanto was already trying to get a patent on the marijuana plant and that places like Uruguay were having talks with them already.

I do think that that right there is another problem that needs to be tackled globally. It does not only affect the psychedelic substances.

But you can't deny that this is a first step into the right direction, even if it "just" means having less people going to jail for having weed in their pocket or mushrooms at home.

I think you have a valid concern, but I really don't see a huge market in entheogens. I know there is a fair amount of money to be made, but I can't really see Monsanto wanting to get in on that action. It's too varied, and doesn't fit with their giant one-crop-at-a-time paradigm. And it may even be good. I like the idea of large groves of mimosa hostilis dotting the countryside. It would be in the farmers best interest to harvest sustainably, since it takes so many years to grow a viable tree.

Weed on the other hand.... Weed definitely makes sense to Monsanto, but at least that's weed's thing anyways. It seems like that plant loves to be growing everywhere. The only lame part will be when Monsanto makes their own style, patents it, and then starts suing people when it ends up in their farms by accident.

I can't help but think this article is a direct consequence of the recent LSD trialsI read about on MAPS.

And to be honest, I don't see how legalizing LSD would be any different from the truffels currently dominating the Smartshop-scene here in Holland. It could even introduce a load of jobs. Like a professional trip-sitter. The perfect job for Nexians.. Given that some people here have impressive resumees when it comes to trip-sitting.

My opinion is that the drug companies do not want people to be able to completely cure themselves without putting money into their massive pockets, and with no future need for medication they will go broke. Make no mistake, the drug companies are experiencing huge profits on the back of the mental illness epidemic.