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BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
1. It's about time!
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:22 AM
May 2020

"Dr. Sessa is not alone in maintaining that psychedelics are very useful in helping to treat anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD, among other conditions."

"By 1968, the drug was illegal—a bad decision, thinks Dr. Sessa: “Ever since then research has been difficult and the authorities have found themselves embroiled in an unwinnable drug war, which has served only to fund the mafia, criminalize otherwise law-abiding drug users, and, crucially, hamper all research into these safe and efficacious substances."

"Things are changing. In 2012, an analysis of studies done in the 50s and 60s showed how helpful the drug was in treating alcoholism, and the first two papers on the effects of LSD since the 1970s were released this year."

"Albert Hofmann discovered the substance in 1943. On his 100th birthday, he would call it “medicine for the soul".
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdpqpj/cary-grant-lsd-old-hollywood-289

*This article is a few years old.

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