... / Alamy) The benefits for people who have had positive or even mystical experiences induced by the psychedelic drug psilocybin — the psychoactive ingredient in ‘magic mushrooms’ — linger for... not be disrupted again like it was for the last 40 years because scientifically there is so much promise in having this research move forward.” Griffiths is currently recruiting subjects for a study...

RMJon23 wrote: Acid test: clinical studies are reviving interest in mind-bending drugs, this time with a serious purpose: to soothe difficult-to-treat psychic suffering, such as anxiety, trauma, and obsessive-complusive disorder.(SCIENCE ON THE EDGE)(Clinical report).Linda Marsa. Dr.: So, you say you suffer from anxiety? Patient: Why, yes. Dr.: Here, try this 1,000 microgram ...

On Jul 6, 3:32 am, RMJon23 <rmjo...@aol.com> wrote: "The idea of turning [these drugs] loose makes me uncomfortable," says University of Utah pharmacologist Glen Hanson, who is also director of the Utah Addiction Center there. "Before we make them available by prescription, there needs to be compelling evidence that they're unique and that a large population would derive substantial benefit...

....(SCIENCE ON THE EDGE)(Clinical report).Linda Marsa. Discover 29.6 (June 2008): p52(6... ground. Psychedelics are classified as Schedule I drugs by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which outlaws their use outside a research setting.... research for more than a decade. "We've done a lot of basic research," he adds. "Now we want to use the tools we've developed to see what is going on in real ...