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This is amazing. http://www.nytimes.com/2...ners.html?smid=fb-share
I totally sympathize with the victims' criticisms of the program. But I think the solution is that they should have direct access to this kind of healing treatment too, not that the prisoners shouldn't. Bad people are people, too!   :Π PS- The nexus needs a vomiting emoticon From the unspoken
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My first thought about this was that it was ridiculous that prisoners should be given ayahuasca in prison, but, on second thought I can kind of see the logic.
I've never done it myself but I understand it helps you confront your demons and brings them to the fore with many people claiming to have overcome depressions, tense family relations and so on.... so, if the prisoners are habitual thieves, continually violent etc and it helps them see the light then why not.
What would be interesting would be to look at the re-offending rates of lets say 100 criminals who go through the prison system in the standard way, and 100 who have been treated with ayahuasca.
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didnof wrote:
What would be interesting would be to look at the re-offending rates of lets say 100 criminals who go through the prison system in the standard way, and 100 who have been treated with ayahuasca.
Yes, it will. Sine experientia nihil sufficienter sciri potest -Roger Bacon
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This is really great. It's good to see that they're trying to actually rehabilitate people instead of keeping them locked up. Akasha224 is a fictitious extension of my ego; all his posts do not reflect reality & are fictional
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I think this is a wonderful idea.
This reminds me of reading that in the mountains of Peru, there's a place called Takiwasi. It's a rehab place for drug addicts, they take anyone from local indigenous people to westerners, affordable too.
I think (or hope) that with all the science basically backing up these types of uses, that this is the direction that it will go in eventually, even in the west.
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This was done in the 60s .70s when Dr Timothy Leary and asociates treated US prisoners with LSD and many good results were reported as many prisoners lost intrest in the negative paths they were folowing in life..including alcoholism...
Then later ..[the government]..made LSD illeagle and the treatment programs halted..
After all humans are capable of doing extreemly good things in life and for others.. but also extreemly bad things...look at ..[isis]
We are information... .. and information follows its written program,,,
People are people.. [in some ways we are all equal].. its only when their program follow the wrong path that the wrath of society comes down on them...
Then again many things humans do are strongly connected to illusion...
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