Medicine/Healing

LSD and magic mushrooms can alter personality making people try new experiences

Many have even reported therapeutic advantage of the [LSD and psilocybin] which scientists described as working in a manner similar to that of antidepressants. [LSD and psilocybin] may be popular at parties but they also seem to have some long term results for individuals. Original Article (Deccanchronile):LSD and magic mushrooms can alter personality making people…

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Psychology

How you speak predicts if psychedelic therapy will help you

But how can you tell if psilocybin might help someone? The way you speak may reveal whether a psychedelic… could help treat depression or anxiety. Robin Carhart-Harris and his team at Imperial College London have been testing psilocybin – a hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms – in people with treatment-resistant depression. Their pilot study found…

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Psychology

“Ten Commandments” of safer drug use

*the following is ONLY an exerpt, please visit this link for the full article*above image is a compound of ten tetrahedra (geometric shape) People are dying because of ignorance. They are dying because unremitting propaganda is denying them essential safety information. They are dying because legislators and the media are censoring the science, and are ruthlessly…

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Psychology

Top Kratom researcher discusses potential medical use in opioid withdrawal

“But the compounds in kratom aren’t particularly potent opioids like prescription opioids, morphine or fentanyl. So we started investigating its traditional use from Malaysia where people used it as an opium replacement or to wean themselves off of opium–a different type of methadone or Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) maintenance therapy,” says McCurdy. ​(McCurdy was able to secure…

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Psychology

Carnivalism: the shadow of hierarchy

I asked their [my classes’] indulgence for a historical detour. “Hierarchical societies that are deeply unequal and exploitive,” I pointed at the image, “force people to release stress through play. In Ancient Greece, the cult of Dionysus held rituals where they drank, took psychedelics and danced on mountains. When Rome absorbed Greece, Dionysus was renamed…

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Psychology

Don’t ban kratom, end the war on drugs instead

*from the anti-plant propaganda movie, Reefer Madness. Currently legal in the United States, millions of Americans have safely used kratom for therapeutic… purposes. In recent years, federal agencies which have no regard for individual liberty like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration have set their sights on kratom. ​Proponents of safe…

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