Comments on: The history (and future) of psychedelic science http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/the-history-and-future-of-ps.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 17:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/the-history-and-future-of-ps.html#comment-1650724 Cowicide Sat, 09 Feb 2013 07:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211757#comment-1650724 <blockquote> you'd think a drug that treated RECIDIVISM would be an easy sell.</blockquote>Not to the lucrative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America" rel="nofollow">private prison industry</a> and the corporatist owners (slavemasters).

you’d think a drug that treated RECIDIVISM would be an easy sell.

Not to the lucrative private prison industry and the corporatist owners (slavemasters).

]]> By: B E Pratt http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/the-history-and-future-of-ps.html#comment-1650514 B E Pratt Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211757#comment-1650514 Interestingly, Bill Wilson, founder of AA, was an avid supporter of LSD as a treatment for alcoholism. Interestingly, Bill Wilson, founder of AA, was an avid supporter of LSD as a treatment for alcoholism.

]]> By: feetleet http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/the-history-and-future-of-ps.html#comment-1650416 feetleet Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211757#comment-1650416 Didn't see any mention of ibogaine, a tryptamine hallucinogen used to treat addiction to other drugs directly (i.e., not in the tapering methadone/nicotine gum sense) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine  I've never understood why it's Schedule I in the U.S. Considering the hard-on some of us seem to have for lowering taxes/government expenditures, and the countless Americans imprisoned (and re-imprisoned) for non-violent drug offenses, you'd think a drug that treated RECIDIVISM would be an easy sell. Didn’t see any mention of ibogaine, a tryptamine hallucinogen used to treat addiction to other drugs directly (i.e., not in the tapering methadone/nicotine gum sense)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine 

I’ve never understood why it’s Schedule I in the U.S.
Considering the hard-on some of us seem to have for lowering taxes/government expenditures, and the countless Americans imprisoned (and re-imprisoned) for non-violent drug offenses, you’d think a drug that treated RECIDIVISM would be an easy sell.

]]> By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/the-history-and-future-of-ps.html#comment-1650249 Cowicide Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211757#comment-1650249 It's a shame that potentially helpful psychedelic drugs have more of a stigma than things like beer that contain the dangerous drug known as alcohol.  And on that note, I <a href="https://soundcloud.com/cowicide/muscle-car-on-acid" rel="nofollow">made this song</a> that induces beer drinkers to vomit if they listen to it with headphones. It’s a shame that potentially helpful psychedelic drugs have more of a stigma than things like beer that contain the dangerous drug known as alcohol.  And on that note, I made this song that induces beer drinkers to vomit if they listen to it with headphones.

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/the-history-and-future-of-ps.html#comment-1650161 niktemadur Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211757#comment-1650161 Here's an incredibly intriguing field of research, with unbounded potential to benefit mankind.   All evidence pointed even in the 1950s that this is a humane endeavor that can alleviate psychological suffering for untold millions. What's the response in the so-called "Enlightenment Age" in the "enlightened" western world?  At least forty invaluable years lost to hysteria and witch hunts.  No research, only clandestine experimentation. At least things are trickling in the right direction again, somewhat.  Something is infinitely better than absolutely nothing. Here’s an incredibly intriguing field of research, with unbounded potential to benefit mankind.   All evidence pointed even in the 1950s that this is a humane endeavor that can alleviate psychological suffering for untold millions.
What’s the response in the so-called “Enlightenment Age” in the “enlightened” western world?  At least forty invaluable years lost to hysteria and witch hunts.  No research, only clandestine experimentation.
At least things are trickling in the right direction again, somewhat.  Something is infinitely better than absolutely nothing.

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