Terminal Illness? No Prob, We’re Going To Give You LSD - With Video
I’m sure Timothy Leary would be all in favor of this. My name is Bash. Let me tell you something about LSD, Magic Mushrooms, Peyote, and other hallucinogenic substances.Reality goes away. Doors open that should never be opened.
Ever.
No thanks. 17 years of clean and sober. Took my first LSD tab with my Dad in 1971 at age 9. Took many more between 1971 and 1991. Throw in several peyote experiences, and more magic mushroom tea than the Dormouse could ever brew up in Wonderland, and I will tell you with no hesitation and no doubt in my mind that these things should not be ingested by human beings.Sounds hypocritical, but when you find yourself in that abyss at age 9 and come to believe, after 20 years of hell, at age 29 that there is no way out of it other than suicide, fuck hypocrisy.
Don’t take the stuff. Don’t go down that road. I have never known one, not even one successful user. There are only graveyards, asylums, hospitals, and prisons at the end of that road. Very few manage to see the off ramp called “Sobriety” and even fewer are able to completely navigate that off ramp to “NoDesireToGetHigh” Avenue.
Even if the patients are terminally ill, what the fuck do these people know about those types of hallucinogens helping people cope. If there is any negativity within a person’s environment that even uses these things, it can be a hellishly horrific downward spiral into “Bad Tripland”…you don’t want to be around someone having a bad trip, man, believe me…and I would say having a terminal illness qualifies as a negative influence in a person’s environment.
Then again, I could be wrong about their intended use and dosages etc…
What do you think of this?
Psychedelic drugs including LSD could be used to help patients with terminal illnesses or cancer, it has been revealed.
Doctors are examining whether the distorted sense of reality created by the drugs could help patients come to terms with their illness and improve the quality of their remaining life.
Magic mushrooms and Ecstasy could also feature in the ‘psychedelic psychotherapy’ medicine cabinet, they added.
In the first clinical trial on LSD for more than 35 years, Swiss researchers are looking at whether the drug can ease anxiety symptoms in some terminally ill patients.
The subjects will receive different doses of LSD and their quality of life and pain levels will then be assessed.
Previous trials in the U.S. have suggested psilocybin - which is similar to LSD and is the active ingredient in magic mushrooms - helped some patients make the most of the time they had left.
Professor Roland Griffiths, a psilocybin researcher from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, said: ‘The working hypothesis is that if psilocybin or LSD can occasion the experiences of great personal meaning and spiritual significance… then it would allow [patients with terminal illnesses] to face their own demise completely differently - to restructure some of the psychological angst that so often occurs concurrently with severe disease.’
However, many doctors are unconvinced LSD has any part to play in modern medicine.
The drug was banned around the world after a number of users leapt to their deaths believing they could fly.
While the full results have yet to be made public, some of those taking part credited the drug with allowing them to release their feelings and make the most of the time they had left.
Norbert Litzinger, said psilocybin had transformed the outlook of his wife Pamela Sakuda when she was in the late stages of bowel cancer.
‘Pamela had lost hope,’ he said. ‘She wasn’t able to make plans for the future. She wasn’t able to engage the day as if she has a future left’.
Treatment allowed her to realise that her fear about the disease was destroying the remaining time she had left, he said.
Professor Charles Grob, who is carrying out the trials at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in California, said: ‘I think there is a perception these compounds hold untapped potential to help us understand the human mind.’
Elsewhere, psilocybin has shown promise in tackling severe headaches known as cluster headaches and ecstasy is being researched as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Vanda Taylor, of charity Cancer Research UK, said: ‘Research into the use of a variety of drugs to help with pain, anxiety and quality of life, may lead to better treatments and help patients cope better with their illness.’
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