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Originally Posted by Michael
So why can't we legalize this mushroom? Especially in regaurd to terminal patients, I am for anything that would ease the pain and the process of dying. M
"Spiritual" effects of mushrooms last a year?
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
Wed Jul 2, 12:23 PM ET
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effects of mushrooms last a year? - Yahoo! News
The "spiritual" effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
The researchers also said their findings show there are safe ways to test psychoactive drugs on willing volunteers, if guidelines are followed.
In 2006, Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues gave psilocybin to 36 volunteers and asked them how it felt. Most reported having a "mystical" or "spiritual" experience and rated it positively.
More than a year later, most still said the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction, Griffiths and colleagues report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
"This is a truly remarkable finding," Griffiths said in a statement. "Rarely in psychological research do we see such persistently positive reports from a single event in the laboratory."
The findings may offer a way to help treat extremely anxious and depressed patients, or people with addictions, said Griffiths, whose work was funded by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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no clue, Michael... the authoritarians would probably cite
the war on drugs, although, since we do nothing about the opium poppy in Afghanistan, the WOD has become a joke.
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Originally Posted by Donkey Jote
Because fun is illegal, apparently. Even if you're dying.
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true... unless of course you're a republican in charge of a charity distributing drugs to third world countries, then you can get away with swiping them... but ONLY if you're a republican...
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Originally Posted by Michael
Unless a billionaire PharmCorps comes up with a pill that has the active ingredients from this mushroom. Then their employees at the FDA will be pumping out positive (pseudo) research reports about the benefits.
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not sure if that would be legal, even then...
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Originally Posted by Michael
Unless they take the active ingredient of the mushroom and a billionaire pharm corps puts it out on the market. They will contact their pseudo scientists at the FDA to write favorable pseudo science research reports. Just let me know how I can become a test subject. (^:
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Timothy Leary got his start that way back in the 50s... or was it the 60s...
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Originally Posted by AHFN
S'called LSD.
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no... as I understand from reading about it, LSD originally came from rye mold...
a fungus (mushroom) is not mold...