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    ++How about a positive LSD story?++,,
    ++That would be newsworthy++.,,
    ++Don't ya think?++,,
    --[http://deoxy.org/watch?v=AXmzcroUmdU&q=Hicks Bill Hicks], 1993^?^,,
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    === * 2010-11-01 ===
    ;The Lancet:'''[http://www.ias.org.uk/newsroom/uknews/news011110/dnutt-lancet-011110.pdf Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis]''' ^PDF^
     
    ++The highest and lowest overall harm scores in the ISCD study are 72 for Wiki:alcohol and 5 for mushrooms (6 for LSD), which is a ratio of about 14:1.++
     
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    === * 2010-10-26 ===
    ;Fox News?:'''[http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/10/26/magic-mushrooms-good/ Why Magic Mushrooms Can Be Good for You]'''
     
    Now we are seeing evidence that exactly as described by traditional healers, these agents do in fact offer benefits for mind and mood. Interesting enough, magic mushrooms, peyote buttons and the ayahuasca brew are all referred to by those who employ them as “The Medicine,” for their broad purported healing benefits. The recent highly controlled, rigorously conducted medical studies on psilocybin show benefits indeed.
     
    These are staggering results from the ingestion of a small capsule.
     
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    === * 2010-10-24 ===
    ;Examiner.com:'''[http://www.examiner.com/outdoor-living-in-eugene/massive-mushroom-harvest-reported-eugene-area Massive mushroom harvest reported in Oregon]'''
     
    For fans of chanterelle mushrooms, and psilocybin magic mushroom species, this has been a record breaking season in western Oregon.
     
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    === * 2010-10-21 ===
    ;<no>TreeHugger</no>:'''[http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/warning-these-drugs-may-be-therapeutic.php Why You Should Care About Psychedelic Research ]'''
     
    One of the participants had come to the realization through the psilocibin treatment that she had been allowing her fear of the future to destroy her present. Stopping a mind that is in a cyclical downward spiral of depression via psychedelic use is like stopping a record that is stuck on repeat. In short, the drug offered participants a paradigm shift.
     
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    === * 2010-10-21 ===
    ;Marin Independent Journal:'''[http://www.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_16391365 Women gather to talk about sex, suffering, psychedelics]'''
     
    "I think we're looking at a new era, a time when people are looking at the therapeutic potential of these substances, and I feel there is a real desire among women in particular to talk about these substances because it's such a taboo discussion."
     
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    === * 2010-10-19 ===
    ;Arizona Daily Wildcat:'''[http://wildcat.arizona.edu/perspectives/psilocybin-s-legality-deserves-evaluation Psilocybin’s legality deserves evaluation]'''
     
    There is no reason for psilocybin to remain a Schedule I narcotic; it doesn't even qualify as one, considering that it is not addictive and yields minimal health risks.
     
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    === * 2010-09-07 ===
    ;Los Angeles Times:'''[http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-magic-mushrooms-20100907,0,4230087.story Magic mushroom ingredient beneficial to cancer patients, report says]'''
     
    A single modest dose of the hallucinogen can improve patients' functioning for as long as six months, allowing them to spend their last days with more peace, researchers said.
     
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    === * 2010-07-20 ===
    ;Johns Hopkins Health Alert:'''[http://www.johnshopkinshealthalerts.com/reports/depression_anxiety/3635-1.html Treating Mood Disorders With Hallucinogenic Drugs]'''
     
    These drugs are thought to change the way the brain normally processes information and may provide people with mood disorders a new way of looking at the world and their problems.
     
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    === * 2010-06-24 ===
    ;The Times Record:'''[http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2010/06/24/news/doc4c2382c141f56962166564.txt Dr. Walter Pahnke’s (not-so) long strange trip]'''
     
    He was best known for what’s called the “Good Friday Experiment,” conducted in April 1962 as part of his doctoral thesis on religion. Prior to the Good Friday service at the Boston University Marsh Chapel that year, volunteer divinity students from the Boston area split into two groups. The members of one group were given doses of psilocybin — a drug produced by hallucinogenic mushrooms — while members of the other group were given placebos. Nine out of the 10 students given the psychedelic drug reported “profound religious experiences,” offering Pahnke what he took to be empirical evidence that psilocybin is a reliable trigger for spiritual awakenings.
     
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    === * 2010-04-11 ===
    ;The New York Times:'''[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/science/12psychedelics.html Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again]'''
     
    Researchers from around the world are gathering this week in San Jose, Calif., for the largest conference on psychedelic science held in the United States in four decades. They plan to discuss studies of psilocybin and other psychedelics for treating depression in cancer patients, obsessive-compulsive disorder, end-of-life anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction to Meme:drugs or Wiki:alcohol.
     
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    === * 2008-09-26 ===
     
    ;The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS):~~PDF~~: '''[http://www.maps.org/research/cluster/psilo-lsd/maps.lsd.research-fda_removes_hold.pdf FDA Removes Clinical Hold on LSD Research]'''
     
    A Transformative Moment in Psychedelic History: FDA is now open to the possibility of the therapeutic potential of LSD-assisted psychotherapy and will accept data from our [http://www.maps.org/research/cluster/psilo-lsd/ Swiss study].
     
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    === * 2008-08-19 ===
     
    ;guardian.co.uk:'''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/19/psychology.drugs Psychedelic drugs could heal thousands]'''
     
    After over 40 years of repression or oppression, Rick Doblin of [http://maps.org/ Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies] (Maps), and others are spearheading a more enlightened, less hysterical and terrified approach to the use of these substances.
     
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    === * 2008-08-12 ===
     
    ;guardian.co.uk:'''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/12/medicalresearch.drugs Clinical trials test potential of hallucinogenic drugs to help patients with terminal illnesses]'''
     
    The first clinical trial using LSD since the 1970s began in Switzerland in June. It aims to use "psychedelic psychotherapy" to help patients with terminal illnesses come to terms with their imminent mortality and so improve their quality of life.
     
    *MAPS: [http://www.maps.org/research/cluster/psilo-lsd/#swlsd LSD-assisted Psychotherapy Research in Switzerland]
     
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    === * 2008-08-01 ===
     
    ;''The Age of Heretics'':'''[http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080801/a-skimmers-guide-to-the-latest-business-books_Printer_Friendly.html A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management]'''
     
    In the late '50s and early '60s, Kleiner writes, executives and engineers from a number of companies experimented with LSD on corporate retreats. The drug reportedly improved engineers' ability to solve technical problems and managers' conflict-resolution skills. Heretics is full of surprising stories of corporate flirtation with the counterculture.
     
     
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    === * 2008-08-01 ===
     
    ;''Journal of Psychopharmacology'':'''[http://jop.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/6/621 Mystical-type experiences occasioned by psilocybin mediate the attribution of personal meaning and spiritual significance 14 months later]'''
     
    When administered under supportive conditions, psilocybin occasioned experiences similar to spontaneously occurring mystical experiences that, at 14-month follow-up, were considered by volunteers to be among the most personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives.
     
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    === * 2008-07-11 ===
     
    ;Alternet Drug Reporter:'''[http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/90958/ Emerging from the Drug War Dark Age: LSD and Other Psychedelic Medicines Make a Comeback]'''
     
    Rick Doblin, a Harvard-educated Ph.D and founder of the [http://maps.org/ Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies],
    was one of the first to break through this wall of obstinacy and challenge the Inquisition. He got the U.S. government to approve clinical trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for returning veterans and victims of violent crime or abuse who suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [http://www.maps.org/mdma/protocol/]. In many ways it was this Newtonian breakthrough that finally challenged the orthodoxy that reigned over the 40-year Dark Age. Western governments had to ask themselves what was more important to them: their irrational and erroneous drug propaganda, or the possibility that the millions of lives they had devastated by war, violence and iniquitous economic policies might actually be repaired. In this, the seeds of a psychedelic renaissance were planted.
     
    *Video: Rick Doblin of MAPS on Psychedelic Research [Deoxy:videos/btzqyrn7awo Part 1]--[Deoxy:videos/EcmYNzh9OkE Part 2]
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    === * 2008-07-07 ===
     
    ;John Hopkins Gazette:'''[http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2008/07jul08/07hallucin.html Spiritual Effects of Hallucinogens Persist]'''
     
    In a follow-up to research showing that psilocybin, a substance contained in "sacred mushrooms," produces substantial spiritual effects [Local:Positive_LSD_Story#2006_07_11], a Johns Hopkins team reports that those beneficial effects appear to last more than a year... "This is a truly remarkable finding," Griffiths said. "Rarely in psychological research do we see such persistently positive reports from a single event in the laboratory."
     
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    === * 2008-07-06 ===
     
    ;The Baltimore Sun:'''[http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/90799 Tuning in, not out]'''
     
    [Deoxy:leary.htm Timothy Leary] is smiling somewhere. More than 40 years after the U.S. government banned hallucinogens...and scoffed at the Harvard psychologist and anyone else who suggested they might have a legitimate use, '''federal officials have become enlightened.''' The Food and Drug Administration has rightfully changed its stance on the research of psychedelic drugs.
     
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    === * 2008-07-02 ===
     
    ;Newsweek:'''[http://www.newsweek.com/id/144399 A Really Long Strange Trip]'''
     
    How some dedicated scientists and former flower children managed to bring hallucinogenic drug research back to mainstream labs after more than 30 years.
     
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    === * 2008-07-01 ===
     
    ;CNN:~~VIDEO~~: '''[Deoxy:video/u7yKpvBQhTw Magic Mushroom Surprise: Study finds lasting benefit]'''
     
    "Maybe the hippies of the sixties weren't just on something maybe they were on to something. Scientists at John Hopkins now say magic mushrooms really can expand your mind producing a kind of religious experience. Fourteen months ago they gave dozens of volunteers magic mushrooms..."
     
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    === * 2007-10-31 ===
     
    ;Telegraph.co.uk:'''[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567544/Top-100-living-geniuses.html Top 100 living geniuses]'''
     
    The top 100 living geniuses was compiled by a panel of six experts in creativity and innovation from Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm.
     
    '''1= [Wikipedia:Albert_Hofmann Albert Hoffman] (Swiss) Chemist'''
    '''1= [Wikipedia:Tim_Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee] (British) Computer Scientist'''
     
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    === * 2007-07-16 ===
     
    ;Royal Society of Chemistry:'''[http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/July/16070702.asp Hallucinogenic drug in the clinic]'''
     
    The use of LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide) in psychotherapy is to be studied for the first time in 35 years.
     
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    === * 2007-04-19 ===
     
    ;Time Magazine:'''[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1612717,00.html Was Timothy Leary Right?]'''
     
    A quiet psychedelic renaissance is beginning at the highest levels of American science, including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Harvard, which is conducting what is thought to be its first research into therapeutic uses of psychedelics (in this case, Ecstasy) since the university fired [Deoxy:leary.htm Timothy Leary] in 1963.
     
    Dr. Carlos Zarate Jr., is chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research Unit at NIMH--found "robust and rapid antidepressant effects" that remained for a week after depressed subjects were given ketamine.
     
    Dr. Francisco Moreno of the University of Arizona gave psilocybin (the merrymaking chemical in psychedelic [[mushrooms]]) to obsessive-compulsive-disorder patients, most of whom later showed "acute reductions in core OCD symptoms."
     
    Now researchers at Harvard are studying how Ecstasy might help alleviate anxiety disorders,
     
    Beckley Foundation, a British trust, has received approval to begin what will be the first human studies with LSD since the 1970s.
     
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    === * 2006-12-28 ===
     
    ;Nature Medicine:'''[http://guide.labanimal.com/nm/journal/v13/n1/full/nm0107-10.html Cluster Busters]'''
     
    '''Citizen science:''' (Scientists at Harvard Medical School) began collecting the medical records of [http://www.clusterbusters.com/ those who were using hallucinogens to relieve cluster headaches], and set up interviews and online surveys for a retrospective analysis. Their results show that psilocybin is better at aborting acute attacks than either oxygen or sumatriptan, and LSD and psilocybin are both better at triggering and extending remission than are standard drugs...The researchers are planning clinical trials using LSD and psilocybin.
     
     
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    === * 2006-12-11 ===
     
    ;BBC:'''[http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6210694.stm Psychedelic drug "hope for OCD"]'''
     
    The patients did see a significant reduction in symptoms for up to 24 hours after they were given psilocybin even on the lowest dose. But because there was no group given a different drug or no drug at all to compare them to, the benefits could have been simply due to care and attention from the researchers.
     
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    === * 2006-12-07 ===
     
    ;Chronicle of Higher Education:'''[http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=1118&fmt=page Researchers Explore New Visions for Hallucinogens]'''
     
    The Harbor-UCLA study follows up on research done by Stanislav Grof and Dr. Pahnke, who worked at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, in Baltimore, in the late 1960s, the very end of the psychedelic era. They gave the more powerful hallucinogen LSD to patients with terminal cancer. About two-thirds of their subjects got by with less pain medication as a result. They feared death less or not at all, and their anxiety abated, which is known to help ease pain.
     
     
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    === * 2006-10-16 ===
     
    ;The Globe and Mail:'''[http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=1029&fmt=page The LSD Treatment]'''
     
    A new study that looks back at LSD research conducted by a team of scientists in Canada more than four decades ago demonstrates the degree to which anti-psychedelic hysteria derailed promising scientific research for the treatment of alcoholism.
     
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    ;University of Alberta:'''[http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoa-ltf100606.php LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look]'''
     
    According to one study conducted in 1962, 65 per cent of the alcoholics in the experiment stopped drinking for at least a year-and-a-half (the duration of the study) after taking one dose of LSD. "Some of the patients involved in the original studies...had not had a sip of [[alcohol]] since their single LSD experience 40 years earlier."
     
     
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    === * 2006-09-13 ===
     
    ;Nature:'''[http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=984&fmt=page Dropping acid may help headaches]'''
     
    LSD and psilocybin are types of amines called tryptamines, and [Deoxy:trypgif.htm their chemical structures are very similar to natural neurotransmitters such as serotonin]. One conventional medicine for cluster headaches, Methysergide, is known to be chemically similar to LSD.
     
     
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    === * 2006-08-15 ===
     
    ;Chicago Sun-Times:'''[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1138BC282F7CD470&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Sufferer Turns to "Shrooms"]'''
     
    In a preliminary study, researchers from Harvard's <no>McLean</no> Hospital surveyed patients who had used psilocybin or LSD. Twenty-five of 48 psilocybin users and seven of eight LSD users reported the drugs prevented the entire cluster period when headaches normally occurred..."No other medication, to our knowledge, has been reported to terminate a cluster period," researchers wrote in the June 27 issue of the journal Neurology.
     
     
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    === * 2006-08-15 ===
     
    ;The Lancet Neurology:'''[http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=967&fmt=page Hallucinogen research inspires neurotheology]'''
     
    Ultimately, study of hallucinogens may reveal that psychopharmacology underpins these potentially transformative experiences. Solomon Snyder of Johns Hopkins comments on the Psychopharmacology paper: [By] showing that one can responsibly conduct clinical research with psychedelic drugs and by confirming the mystical influences of these agents, Griffiths et al may help resurrect psychedelic drugs as major tools in probing the molecular bases of consciousness.
     
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    === * 2006-07-11 ===
     
    ;Psychopharmacology:'''[http://www.maps.org/w3pb/new/2006/2006_Griffiths_22780_1.pdf Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance]'''
     
    This double-blind study evaluated the acute and longer-term psychological effects of a high dose of psilocybin relative to a comparison compound administered under comfortable, supportive conditions... Conclusions: When administered under supportive conditions, psilocybin occasioned experiences similar to spontaneously occurring mystical experiences.
     
    ;ABC News:'''[http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2174998 Tripping Out: Scientists Study Mystical Effects of Mushrooms]'''
     
    ;The Economist:'''[http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=947&fmt=none The God pill; Psychedelic drugs.(Psychedelic drugs grow up)]'''
     
    ;LA Times:'''[http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=905&fmt=page Counterculture Drug Provides Spiritual Boost]'''
     
    ;Wall Street Journal:'''[http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB115258280486902994-AkOJkdepEq_uYKdjxsfSC_cKVtw_20060809.html Go Ask Alice: Mushroom Drug Is Studied Anew]'''
     
    ;The Washington Post:'''[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001304_pf.html Drug's Mystical Properties Confirmed]'''
     
     
     
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    === * 2006-06-27 ===
     
    ;American Academy of Neurology:'''[http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/66/12/1920 Response of cluster headache to psilocybin and LSD]'''
     
    The authors interviewed 53 cluster headache patients who had used psilocybin or lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to treat their condition. Twenty-two of 26 psilocybin users reported that psilocybin aborted attacks; 25 of 48 psilocybin users and 7 of 8 LSD users reported cluster period termination; 18 of 19 psilocybin users and 4 of 5 LSD users reported remission period extension. Research on the effects of psilocybin and LSD on cluster headache may be warranted.
     
     
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    === * 2006-04-14 ===
     
    ;Guardian Unlimited:'''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,,1754089,00.html Lancet calls for LSD in labs]'''
     
    Dr Horton told Guardian Unlimited that important advances were made by [Deoxy:shamansci.htm researchers using psychedelic drugs on themselves], but that these studies were stifled by the post-1960s anti-drug backlash. "Our very earliest understanding of the neurochemistry of the brain came from studying LSD-like compounds. Those same researchers were also taking those drugs, not recreationally, but as experiments on themselves. This was immensely important work."
     
     
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    === * 2006-04-13 ===
     
    ;The Lancet:'''[http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=811&fmt=page Reviving research into psychedelic drugs]'''
     
    That psychedelic drugs, such as LSD and MDMA (ecstasy), can be effective treatments for various psychiatric illnesses is an old idea. Once considered wonder drugs for their effects on anxiety, depression, alcoholism, and other mental illnesses, they have been effectively banished from medical practice after legal rulings banned their sale and use...the social prescription against psychedelic drugs that hinders properly controlled research into their effects and side-effects is largely based on social and legal, as opposed to scientific, concerns.
     
     
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    === * 2006-01-16 ===
     
    ;Wired Magazine:'''[http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015 LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?]'''
     
    When Kevin Herbert has a particularly intractable programming problem, or finds himself pondering a big career decision, he deploys a powerful mind expanding tool--LSD-25.
     
    "It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used," said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead--who were among the many artists inspired by LSD.
     
    "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems.
     
     
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    === * 2006-01-11 ===
     
    ;The Guardian:'''[http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/news/0,8363,1683782,00.html?gusrc=rss Psychiatrist calls for end to 30-year taboo over use of LSD as a medical treatment]'''
     
    "It is as if a whole generation of psychiatrists have had this systematically erased from their education," Dr Sessa says. "But for the generation who trained in the 50s and 60s, this really was going to be the next big thing. Thousands of books and papers were written, but then it all went silent. My generation has never heard of it. It's almost as if there has been an active demonisation."
     
    "I don't see either ethically or professionally or technically why it shouldn't be used in the future," Dr Sandison says. "But anything done now has to be very different from what we did. All the expertise developed in those years by a large number of people has been lost so we have to start again."
     
     
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    === * 2005-08-31 ===
     
    ;<no>McMaster</no> University:'''[http://web.archive.org/web/20051119075405/http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/nms/newsreleases/2005/dyck.html LSD finds new respectability]'''
     
    Many illegal drugs are used in medical settings. Scientists who studied LSD made important contributions to psychiatry, and found it helped many people cope with mental illness.
     
     
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    === * 2005-08-02 ===
     
    ;The Guardian:'''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1540601,00.html Headache sufferers flout new drug law]'''
     
    Patients who suffer from cluster headaches--a debilitating medical condition for which there is no cure--are flouting the government's ban on magic mushrooms because they say the psychedelic fungi are the only thing to relieve the pain of their attacks...ergotomine--which contains lysergic acid, a precursor of LSD--has been used to treat migraines for years.
     
     
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    === * 2005-06-18 ===
     
    ;British Journal of Psychiatry:'''[http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=539&fmt=page Can Psychedelics Have A Role In Psychiatry Again?]'''
     
    In the years between the first synthesis of LSD in the 1930s--and the disappearance of psychedelic research by the late 1960s, there was a furious growth of scientific interest in these substances. Many pioneers gave their careers to this field, hoping that psychedelic drugs could be the Holy Grail for psychiatry--like the microscope is to biology or the telescope is to astronomy--an essential tool to explore the parts of the internal world that are usually inaccessible...
     
    By 1965 over 2000 papers had been published describing positive results for over 40,000 patients, taking psychedelic drugs with few side effects and a high level of safety. The techniques were applied to the treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, depression, bereavement reactions and sexual dysfunction, among others. In the treatment of addiction, repeated controlled experiments demonstrated a consistent recovery and 6 month abstinence from drinking in 50% to 90% of subjects after brief psychedelic therapy...
     
    Perhaps a more dispassionate criticism based upon scientific reasoning and not influenced by social or political pressures is called for if we are to truly investigate whether these substances can have a useful role in psychiatry today.
     
    *[http://www.maps.org/images/10.15.05_bjop.pdf Peer responses]
     
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    === * 2005-06-14 ===
     
    ;Psychology Today:'''[http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20050422-000005.html Psychedelics in Rehab]'''
     
    Should psychedelic drugs be used for tough-to-treat conditions? Studying contraband substances are on the upswing, and many say it should have happened sooner.
     
    Researchers hope this is only the beginning of a hallucinogenic data mine. As Grob also points out, "People forget, but psychedelics were the cutting edge of science in this country for 50 years." In fact, in the 1940s and '50s, so much money flowed in this direction that many top researchers got their start in this field. Many feel modern psychiatry owes its origins to the study of hallucinogens.
     
    After all, it was the discovery of the neurotransmitter serotonin--thanks to LSD--that jump started the brain chemistry revolution.
     
     
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    === * 2005-06-01 ===
     
    ;The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry:'''[http://web.archive.org/web/20050923220033/http://cpa-apc.org/Publications/Archives/CJP/2005/june/InRevDyck.asp Flashback: Psychiatric Experimentation With LSD in Historical Perspective]'''
     
    In 1962 psychiatrist Sven Jensen, working in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, published the first controlled trial involving LSD and alcoholism...In his 2-year study involving follow-up periods of 6 to 18 months, Jensen evaluated patients treated for chronic alcoholism according to 3 different methods. The study results showed that 38 of the 58 patients treated with LSD remained abstinent in the follow-up period. These numbers were striking when compared with those who received only group therapy (7 of 38 remained abstinent) and those who were treated by other psychiatrists (4 of 35 remained abstinent).
     
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    *'''Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies: [http://www.maps.org/media/update/ MAPS News Updates]'''