Is LSD the New Xanax?

The problem that we have is that we think we can just pop pills and become perfect. LSD has medical benefits to be sure, but they're definitely not the pill-popping-get-addicted-to-prescription-uppers type of medicine. LSD was originally found to have uses in psychoanalysis, and this is probably the subject of these tests.

LSD is not Xanax, and it shouldn't be treated that way.

LSD IS A MIRACLE!

Less is known now in terms of medicine.

"Is one prescription drug deadlier than this illegal drug?

Did we have it all wrong and this is what cures you and this is what harms you?

Do we even know where we stand on this?"

hahahaha, i'm glad that all of us acid heads on the planet have found a nexus point on current.com which we could find each other. everyone on this article is a tripper. fuckin ridiculous.

Makes sense.

Cluster headaches [and various other conditions] are routinely treated with meds acting on various 5-HT receptors. LSD, if memory serves, also acts on various 5-HT receptors. It is logical to assume [and thus investigate] an effect of LSD on cluster headache and other problems.

The loony side effect of this story, rather obviously, is that people think such research advocates in favour of people dropping tabs they got off some freak down the street.

Word...I like to KNOW what goes bump in the night...lol

i am happy that this kind of research is being done but lsd, like mdma will, in the end, not be the answer to the wonder drug everyone is looking for. that honor will probably go to DMT and the brew Ayahuasca that contains it.

http://current.com/items/89165855_magic-potion.htm

but any port in the storm is good for me.

Oh my god, has society totally lost its mind?

Just say no!

Are you fucking kidding me? Your crazier than a loon if you think LSD is anywhere near the Xanax family, I can't believe I am even reading a comparison of the two. WTF? Seriously, I will go for the xanax side any day before some possible bad trip.

wierd science

MicroGram

hey ras_menelik what is that 250?g thing? (looks like upside down h)ive never seen that before ............im trying to scratch it off my computer screen ! hehehe

if it wasnt for flashbacks i would have no memory at all !

FDA passed generic-25 $0.25 per 250μg

now let's party like it's 1969!

All I have to say now is.....if it is FDA approved just imagine the list of disclaimers at the bottom of the tv ads! Might cause freakouts, dreads, hackeysack circles, chanting, bonding, VW bus purchases, paisley outbursts, more hatred of the man, less bathing, more veggies, spontaneous orgies......................

K9 crunchies is a doggie snack that appeared in the animated original movie 101 dalmations in a scene, where the dogs were watching tv and the commercial came on.

I wonder if they will list "Purchasing brightly colored bracelets and necklaces" as a side effect?

I poured all the k9 crunchies out so that 101 dalmatians can shut the hell up! Is it me or do I feel cozy yet stubborn.........maybe if I land on my two thumbs gravity would contemplate advertisement rights all courtesy to philanthropy. Shout out to mellon heads and gonzo. Fraggle Rock still selling otter cakes.

Can anybody say peoples park?

I've been doin' my own non-clinical trials since78 Dead show @ Indianapolis clay courts. Where do we sign up for the clinical one. I can be the Ken Kesey of the new generation! Next weekend I will be conducting mushroom non-clinical trials @ Red Rocks for ABB/Railroad Earth. BOY HOWDY!

Hey, I have cluster headaches! Do I get a discount on my LSD card if I already have an MJ card?!?

The title is a bit misleading. The article mostly discusses the use of LSD for cluster headaches.

It is small pushes, but I am glad to see the medical community is actually looking into drugs like cannabis, LSD, DMT and psylocybin.

Education removes the fear mongering.

Things that REALLY make you go hmmm...

Yum...acid.

MAPS as Albert Hoffman put it will put my problem child to good use(from a letter to Steve Jobs@ apple)

Xanax is a terrible addictive drug more comparable to heroin.

yeah, sign me up for the trials. cash, free lucy, legal, sweet deal.

word. some good news!

You know if you all need a test person I will do it

LSD and psychedelics can definitely be therapeutic. By the same token, a bad trip can mess some one up for awhile.

I know that some people have advocated using a guide to help the trip along, and help one avoid the bad trip.

I assert that LSD could not be accurately compared to any artificial pharmaceutical concoction. Lysergic Acid Diethlymide 25 is a chemical whose molecules mimic THE brain master hormone as a structural analog. That is, it has the package of the brain master hormone, but not the exact contents. The brain is keyed to respond in a normal way to the normal chemical producing a normal reality through our senses. And is keyed to respond in a non ordinary way to the LSD structural analog of the brain master hormone by producing a surreal reality through our senses. When you change how the brain is normaly calibrated to respond to the peripheral senses, though it may appear as an hallucination to others, and incomprehensible to inexperienced subjects, it's still very real. All psyche active substances tend to have this effect. Any chemical spoke(mescaline, psylocybin, certain varieties of cannabis) that leads you to the hub of the wheel (the center of your mind, aka "the eye" aka a "Chakra" is simply an information superhighway like the Internet. Example: When people see the "trails" of their arm moving, which is the arm's immage positioned like the hours of a clock face, and its start/finish position simultaneously, it's not hard to understand why. In the normal reality your mind can perceive 24 frames per second,subliminaly. Yet,you don't notice more than 1 per second. In the LSD condition reality their eyes tell their mind under the heightened sensory condition, that it's a motion picturing camera simultaneously photoing and monitoring the perception.( LSD's expansion of consciousness speeds up sense perception thus slowing down time,relativisticly.) Under normal contitions, we are nowhere near that introspective.
A conscious mind in its normal condition compresses those trails because the conscious mind filters reality. Aldous Huxley knew that if he were going to write about the surreal reality which the Yaqui Indians experience in their native church after they ingest peyote cactus "buttons" so they can see God, he'd have to share their experience. So he did, then wrote about it in his book "The Doors of Perception" LSD has the effect of helping people see into their unconscious mind where things are sub reality(surreal). Almost noone goes through life every day thinking about the underpinnings that base our conscious mind perceived reality. They couldn't get anything done if they did. Yet everything needs a foundation upon which to base itself. LSD simply opens the neural pathways in which your senses lead you on a path to contact your unconscious mind while you're conscious. (and not hypnotized or sleeping) That's one of the several reasons why the CIA conducted LSD mind control experiments on unwitting victims. That's why Tim Leary( CIA operative) et al were public proponents of the CIA's MK Ultra LSD field experiments. And why progressive psychiatrists, who were also adept in hypnosis, used LSD in the early 1960s to treat schitzophrenia and other mind dysfunctions. Expanding one's consciousness can have the effect of acting as a reset button for lots of bad programming.

Xanax is bad . I know some one addicted to it . She gets rages when she tries to stop .

I sure hope so I could use some about now:-)

open your third eye...

emm, dont know, think i will let some1else try it to confirm

Don't take the brown ones!

the problem is that for those who end up having a bad trip will need a xanax

I read that psychiatrists in the 1950s wrote scrips for acid as a form of today's prozac. Many of the top hollywood people were tripping.

you gotta be kidding me

by the time its marketed it won't even by lsd,just some bastardized form of itself.

I'm glad to hear that psychedelic research in a serious setting is coming back into the light. Too bad the government put a stop to it four decades ago. Think how far we could have come since then. If you're interested in LSD and scientific/psychological applications, check out the work of Stanislav Grof. Incredibly interesting stuff.....

I'm not sure if I would compare LSD to Xanax, but it might become the new Prozac or an anti depressant of some sorts.