I wanted to share this article. It is encouraging to see a renewed interests in psychedelic studies. Please enjoy and let me know your thoughts on the article. I found it informative, uplifting and touching.

http://www.newyorker.com...015/02/09/trip-treatment

Thanks for the link, its quite a long article but I read it all and found it very interesting. It reminds me a lot of the research done by Strassman in "The Spirit Molecule" in that patients clearly claim to have had psychological benefit from the substances, yet governments blindly ignore this by labelling it as a schedule 3 drug with 'no accepted medical use'.

It's a pity that Governments don't invest a bit of money into some more research, after all it wouldn't cost much, and with cancer rates now up to 1 in 3 it would provide at least some psychological relief if not physical relief to the sufferers of this disease. Although the theory why this is so in the article makes sense, in that such substances threaten the hierarchical nature of governmentally imposed structures.

Ps, thought this part I copied and pasted below was hilarious!

"Perhaps the most influential and rigorous of these early studies was the Good Friday experiment, conducted in 1962 by Walter Pahnke, a psychiatrist and minister working on a Ph.D. dissertation under Leary at Harvard. In a double-blind experiment, twenty divinity students received a capsule of white powder right before a Good Friday service at Marsh Chapel, on the Boston University campus; ten contained psilocybin, ten an active placebo (nicotinic acid). Eight of the ten students receiving psilocybin reported a mystical experience, while only one in the control group experienced a feeling of “sacredness” and a “sense of peace.” (Telling the subjects apart was not difficult, rendering the double-blind a somewhat hollow conceit: those on the placebo sat sedately in their pews while the others lay down or wandered around the chapel, muttering things like “God is everywhere” and “Oh, the glory!”)"

If I was diagnosed with a terminal illness I would conduct my own trip treament on myself. I am very sure many do everyday. I wont get into the politics other than to say the government is wrong about a great many things. These studies are informative and effective. The results are undeniably positive. I think it is very exciting. I hear through the grapevine that simular studies using LSD and DMT. MDMA, iboga, ayahuasca and other drugs will be up for trial studies in the future. Many of us know the positive effects these substances if used as a tool. The whole article pegs it right between the eyeballs. It's time we open the dialogue to include psychedelic treatment options. Hopefully the information that is obtained from these studies will remove the stigma attached to these wonderful tools of the mind.