New Visions for Hallucinogens

[Anville Azote]

On 12/7/06, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Researchers Explore New Visions for Hallucinogens
>
> After a long hiatus, medical investigators return to studying the benefits
> of once-banned compounds
>
> By SUSAN BROWN
>
> Recently, 36 people who had never taken hallucinogens before gave them a
> try. The pill they took launched a daylong psychedelic journey, sometimes
> fantastic, sometimes frightening. When it was over, a few who took the drug
> said it was the most meaningful experience of their lives, as momentous as
> the birth of a first child or the death of a parent. Others wished never to
> repeat it.
>
> The drug they took was psilocybin, the hallucinogenic molecule found in
> "magic" mushrooms.
>

This may be old news.  See, for example,

http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=151

and the links therein.  (Some good reader comments, too.)

-A. A.