New Visions for Hallucinogens

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About fucking time!
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From: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204 at comcast.net>
> 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.
> 
> Their tales do not come from an all-night desert trance or a radical festival 
> like Burning Man but from Baltimore, where they participated in an experiment at 
> the Johns Hopkins University Bayview Medical Center.
> 
> The study, which began in 2001, explored the drug's ability to induce a mystical 
> state. Published in the journal Psychopharmacology this summer, it was the first 
> federally approved research on psilocybin in humans to be reported in four 
> decades and leads a vanguard of studies that mark a quiet revival of research on 
> psychedelic drugs.
> 
> When scientists in the United States and Europe first learned of the mushrooms' 
> strange effects in the 1950s, along with those of related hallucinogens like 
> LSD, research on the topic exploded. More than a hundred published reports 
> cataloged the effects of the drugs, some rigorously, others not so. [...]
> 
> http://chronicle.com
> Section: Research & Publishing
> Volume 53, Issue 16, Page A12 
> 
> 
> Contact me OFFLIST if you'd like the whole article.
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