LSD returns to Psychotherapeutics

Triumphant, wonderful news. A dawning of a new era that should've begun decades ago!

This is a turning point. A historic development. Several authorised studies are underway worldwide regarding the therapeutic benefits of a number of entheogens. Helping sufferers of cluster headaches, PTSD, addiction and depression with LSD, MDMA, Psylocybin and Iboga. One day these will be available on prescription.
I went to the LSD conference in Basel and Hoffmann was up there on the stage looking good on his 100th birthday with fellow psychonauts. God bless him.

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This is a fantastic development for the world of psychotherapy, and for the medical world in general. Wonderful news!

Using it to help cancer patients accept their diagnosis. I'll have to digest that one for a while before I come up with a true opinion.... I'm not sure what the effect the chemicals would have on the immune system to help with or against the cancer...Not sure what would be compromised in the treatment...You would need appropriate pain meds to prevent the pain experience from taking over the whole 'trip' experience. ooohhh, AAAHH there goes the purple pain in the right abdominal quadrent....ouooo! Plus the compromised mucous membranes with the nausea and vomiting could get messy. You'd need a whole team of doctors with oncology experience to aid the patient to have a positive experience especially if the CA is terminal. Bottom line is what's best for the patient.
Using it for creativity, now I like that one if you are in the right setting with the right tools available: create your head off. I'd sign up!
I'd like to hear the results and keep us posted on updates. Thanks for the site!

I think I might start seeing a Psychiatrist again. I like the sound of taking a trip with out worrying about going to jail. That in itself should be enough to a sure a good trip.

"Explorer : Inside LSD" about current US studies

where do I sign up?

About time.

Wow. I know nothing about LSD except that it was popular in 70s rock and roll. But good deal! I guess if they are taking the time to study it it must be good for something... oh, wait.. :\

one of the co-founders of alcoholics anonymous; dr. bob, worked a great deal with lsd studies. the hope was a cure for compulsive, self centered beheavior and more importantly a spiritual connection.
i took lsd too often and it didn't curtail my drinking/drug problems. i would take it to party and end up by myself, lost in existential morbid reflection. i call those times my dark enlightenments.

i wonder where my closest psycho therapeutics center is?.....

As someone who's goal is to become a psychiatrist one day this news makes me very happy and anxious. It's great to hear about marijuana becoming medicalized and legal but even greater to know hallucinogens and entheogens are going the same path.

about time! anyone who's done this stuff knows it changes lives. a narcotics cop came to my psychopharmacology class to denounce drug use and we asked him if he, or anyone underneath him had ever used any drugs. he scoffed like that was a ridiculous question. in no other battle of opinions is one side so completely uninformed as the narcotics units of police. they, of all people, could benefit from a nice trip.

"Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality".
"Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death".
Stanislav Grof

"Aldous Huxley died on 22 November of the same year, on the same day President Kennedy was assassinated. From Laura Huxley I obtained a copy of her letter to Julian and Juliette Huxley, in which she reported to her brother- and sister-in-law about her husband's last day. The doctors had prepared her for a dramatic end, because the terminal phase of cancer of the throat, from which Aldous Huxley suffered, is usually accompanied by convulsions and choking fits. He died serenely and peacefully, however.
In the morning, when he was already so weak that he could no longer speak, he had written on a sheet of paper: "LSD—try it—intramuscular—100 mmg." Mrs. Huxley understood what was meant by this, and ignoring the misgivings of the attending physician, she gave him, with her own hand, the desired injection-she let him have the moksha medicine".
Albert Hofmann

LSD changed my life.

Awesome

Psychedelics are without a doubt one of the most powerful ways to have a severe breakthrough on any life issues you may be experiencing.

An excellent 19-minute talk on the Johns Hopkins studies of psilocybin-based mystical experiences with special attention to religious and spiritual topics.