Swiss Begin LSD Therapy - First Clinical Trials Since 1970s!

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  1. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    In the first clinical studies conducted since the 1970s, the Swiss have begun looking at LSD as a therapy for terminally ill patients. This comes after a recent study using Psilocybin showed great promise as a medical tool.

    So if these studies are successful does it mean that the US should take LSD off schedule one?

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/12/medicalresearch.drugs

    LSD was discovered by Dr. Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working for Sandoz. He was also the first human being to ingest LSD and reported his vivid life changing experience. Dr. Hoffman died recently at the age of 101.

    Due to political and social pressure doctors have shied away from LSD experiments for the past 35 years. But now the tide has turned!

    Of course in Holland doctors have used LSD in therapeutic settings for many years.
     
  2. Severely stoned

    Severely stoned Senior Member

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    I'm really hoping this goes somewhere, it would be great to have one country in the world who's government realizes that LSD is more than a drug.
     
  3. MeatWagon499

    MeatWagon499 Senior Member

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    this is great! hopefully they'll find medical use for it :)
     
  4. jolom

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    hearing things like this makes me happy : )
     
  5. stalk

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    of course they'll find medical uses, my friend

    lysergic acid is (one of the most) the most divine medicine(s) we've discovered . .

    barely understood.

    you go to the temple.
    palms pressed.
     
  6. st. stephen

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    good news... i doubt this will influence anybody to take lsd off schedule 1, but it is comforting to know that at least some places people as a whole are a bit more open minded
     
  7. klondike_bar

    klondike_bar Senior Member

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    its great news, and i would love to see it decriminalized. however, I fail to understand what benefits it may provide medically except making people feel better and possibly have a breakthrough shortly before death...

    For those who have read Brave New World, it almost seems in a way like they would apply it for same reasons/purposes as the drug soma. (sorry to turn literature nerd on you guys)
     
  8. Severely stoned

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    klondike go read the article he linked it explains that in there.
    Also having medical LSD is one step closer to having legal LSD, at least its on the radar as more than a drug. In the article it sounds to me like they're operating under the pretense of helping terminally ill patients when that's really not their intention. When you read what they're trying to accomplish with the LSD used on terminally ill people, you think "wait why the fuck can't that same thing apply to not dying people" and it fully could. I believe there's some hope here, as long as political pressure dosn't win the race again.
     
  9. jaredfelix

    jaredfelix Namaste ॐ

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    i hope more events like this just snowball effect towards legalization.
     
  10. Severely stoned

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    Meh, that's a long way down the road. The first step is getting the people who matter to understand that LSD is more than "just another drug"
     
  11. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    If you guys don't understand the medical benefits of LSD
    then you've obviously never meditated on LSD
    or microdosed
    or touched samadhi
    or had a transcendental mystical experience
    or left your body
    et cetera.

    LSD rewires your brain.
    It helps you shed your bullshit programming.
    years and years worth of psychological programming can be reprogrammed in just a few sessions.

    Like I said

    Beware of your intentions . .

    You're dealing with one of the most sacred medicines on Earth, whether you realize it or not.
     
  12. Mr.Writer

    Mr.Writer Senior Member

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    I only hope for a second LSD Revelation Revolution :D
     
  13. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    LSD is constantly revolutionizing,
    it is transforming us as a species.

    Thousands of years from now all of this will be crystal clear.
     
  14. prismatism

    prismatism loves you

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    life itself is a terminal illness...
     
  15. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    only if you look at individual lives.
    come on man,
    we are all together.
    One mind.

    If we don't fuck this up
    we will go on forever.
     
  16. somenerdyfreak

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    imagine if it were legal and you went to the psychiatrist and he gave you like a 200 ug pill of lysergic. that'll be the day
     
  17. RELAYER

    RELAYER mādhyamaka

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    Magic Mushrooms are a medicine of self dicipline and spiritual samdhi, Stalk. LSD is a buzzing tile morpher.
    Get with the program brah the Rainbow Family is bickering
     
  18. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    I've learned so much more with LSD.
    To each their own . .
     
  19. Jedite83

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    sadly i doubt that the Us would ever take LSD off schedule I. they would have to admit that yeas of saying its got no medical use and the government don't admit anything ever.
     
  20. prismatism

    prismatism loves you

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    i didn't mean it as a negative thing.
     
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