10 famous geniuses and their drugs of choice

[RainDog]

95. Therapists have used LSD to help the dying

The experience of LSD in the brain is sometimes compared to a religious experience (and we know religious experience has a material basis in the brain - witnessed in people with bipolar disorder and epileptics.) Those with terminal illnesses have been able to come to terms with that experience in safe settings under therapeutic care.

The guy who founded Alcoholics Anonymous used LSD to stop drinking and the use of the same has been touted recently to help heroin addicts as well - the effects for some are immediate cessation of heroin use over months and months without any physical cravings for these addictive drugs.

People have found that psilocybin mushrooms, used every few months, stops cluster headaches (also called "suicide headaches" because they are so painful some people have resorted to suicide to stop them.)

There is a valid therapeutic use for psychotropic natural and chemical substances and the scheduling of these is as false as is the scheduling for marijuana.

While the idea of the "doors of perception" is grounded in the counter culture movement of the mid-20th century, there are, in fact, perceptual changes that can and do occur for people within the western scientific materialist mindset of value, not just the use by someone attending a Grateful Dead concert (tho far be it from me to say that religious experience is any less valid than the one someone may have within church walls - the experiences are coming from the same place.)