Fun fact: Aldous Huxley, author of, among others, the Door of Perception, was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the biologist who was the first dean of Royal School of Mines, which later became a part of the Imperial College.
Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research
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#12What about MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies? They've been around for decades and have done great work. Aren't they the first?
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#13I look forward to the day when Psychedelic are a normal, and even boring, topic of research and medicine.
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#14From a comment by /u/oredna in /r/Psychonaut yesterday[0]:
> Worth noting that the actual first is the Center for Psychedelic Studies at the University of Toronto[1]. We were recently featured in a National Post piece[2]. We've been in touch with the author to inform them that it's inaccurate to call ICL's the first given that we already exist.
> That said, this is great news! More psychedelic research, and we're hopefully all going to be collaborating and working together as we move forward.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/bhkak8/imperial...
[2] https://nationalpost.com/health/health-and-wellness/is-micro...
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#15It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. The repressive outcomes restricting a better timeline from proceeding earlier is so sad to witness. Speaking as an LGBT person who has witnessed suicide among peers and when this treatment likely could help the tolls of abuse in correlation to antiquated beliefs. Thanks to the dying god.
"It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. "
the new generations are already hard at work building their own oppressive ideologies.
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#16does this mean we can free leonard? my idea of justice doesnt include non-violent academics serving life sentences for manufacturing psychedelics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard
> in addition to millions of dollars in United States currency, Pickard also handled millions in Dutch guilders and Canadian bank notes. He preferred to deal in ƒ1000 notes or Canadian $1000 notes (discontinued since 2000 in Canada) because it meant less bulk cash to have on hand. He required his distributors to convert all lower currencies into $50 or $100 notes at the least so as not to cause problems. It's one thi…
...and in so doing, performing a great public service.
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#17Not Reed College decades ago??!
https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/25/technology/kottke-lsd-steve...
>Just a few years before Jobs' death, it was psychedelics that put Kottke back in touch with Jobs. Albert Hoffmann, who discovered LSD, was turning 100 and soliciting financial support for psychedelics research. Kottke was asked to connect Hoffmann with Jobs, which he did; but Kottke doesn't believe that the introduction resulted in any monetary contributions.
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#18It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. The repressive outcomes restricting a better timeline from proceeding earlier is so sad to witness. Speaking as an LGBT person who has witnessed suicide among peers and when this treatment likely could help the tolls of abuse in correlation to antiquated beliefs. Thanks to the dying god.
I'm not sure there's much in religion about no psychedelics?
There is strong overlap between religious affiliated politics and zero tolerance for many things.
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#19does this mean we can free leonard? my idea of justice doesnt include non-violent academics serving life sentences for manufacturing psychedelics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard
I had heard of his story in pop culture references (the van with enough acid to dose a major city) before, but did not know as much about him till I saw your comment and perused his Wikipedia page. This passage was particularly interesting to me: > Pickard was the first American researcher to predict an epidemic of fentanyl and carfentanyl. At Harvard, he was appointed as a research associate in neurobiology at Harva…
lsd is neither addictive nor toxic
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#20It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. The repressive outcomes restricting a better timeline from proceeding earlier is so sad to witness. Speaking as an LGBT person who has witnessed suicide among peers and when this treatment likely could help the tolls of abuse in correlation to antiquated beliefs. Thanks to the dying god.
I'm not sure there's much in religion about no psychedelics?
I've heard some Christians claim it counts as "witchcraft" (KJV translation of φαρμακεία (pharmakeia), which is specifically referring to drug use, and the origin of the English word "pharmacy"). Considering also the use of the word "entheogen" (meaning a substance that manifests a god within you) by some users of psychedelics, and historical pagan use of psychedelics, this seems reasonable.