Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research
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#2I personally haven't taken any psychedelics, but if this produces some meaningful therapeutic methods then I am 100% for it.
Re: Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research
#3Our nation has been in a fully impaired state since fearmongering the 70s caused LSD to become a Schedule 1 substance, more illegal than Cocaine. Hopefully meaningful research will result in legislative changes allowing more people access to beneficial and potentially lifechanging medicines and experiences. It seems that the cat is out of the proverbial petri dish compared to that era, and now it's only a matter of time before these relatively new pharmacological compounds (and ancient sources like Morning Glories and Psilocybin) are rigorously investigated, either at home or abroad. It is lovely for the most medically advanced nation to grab the reins on such a thing, there's nothing but benefit when we consider we've been at the rock bottom of Psychedelic Research for 4+ decades.
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#4A family member was a patient in the Psilocybin study dealing with cancer / end of life anxiety and the experience utterly transformed her life in a positive way.
Seeing this center open brings tears to my eyes.
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#5Lots of revived interest in psychedelics that is finally coming front and center in no small part due to Michael Pollan's recent book "How to Change Your Mind". Rolland Griffiths plays a pivotal role in the book (and in the real life advocacy and study of psychedelics) and Pollan probably seeded the ideas of psilocybin's potential into the right ears around Berkeley and on his book tour [1]. Think there's a ton of potential here and looking forward to what research comes out of this new group.
[1] The center's operational expenses for the first five years will be covered by private funding from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation and four philanthropists: Tim Ferriss, author and technology investor; Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress; Blake Mycoskie, founder of the shoe and accessory brand TOMS; and investor Craig Nerenberg.
Re: Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research
#6Lots of revived interest in psychedelics that is finally coming front and center in no small part due to Michael Pollan's recent book "How to Change Your Mind". Rolland Griffiths plays a pivotal role in the book (and in the real life advocacy and study of psychedelics) and Pollan probably seeded the ideas of psilocybin's potential into the right ears around Berkeley and on his book tour [1]. Think there's a ton of po…
Pollan's book pushed something that was obviously growing fast over the edge into a lot of popular awareness.
That awareness is probably what is necessary to really get these things started and accepted socially which translates into regulatory acceptance. Sadly everything is a popularity contest.
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#7At minimum, those substances would be very useful in a therapy setting with a trusted therapist.
They might also be useful on their own merits, as in, if you have severe depression and eat a bunch of mushrooms maybe you won't be so depressed anymore. Given the current state of anti-depressants, it certainly seems worth a shot.
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#850 years too late. Of course, 50+ years ago, it was the hippies doing the experimentation. As The Man hated the hippies and the youth culture of the time, they instituted these draconian drug laws we've lived under since making it impossible to determine whether drugs like LSD or psilocybin or cannabis might have beneficial therapeutic effects.
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#9 "You're not being asked to believe it," said Dr. Robert. "The real thing
isn't a proposition; it's a state of being. We don't teach our children creeds
or get them worked up over emotionally charged symbols. When it's time
for them to learn the deepest truths of religion, we set them to climb a
precipice and then give them four hundred milligrams of revelation. Two
firsthand experiences of reality, from which any reasonably intelligent boy or girl can
derive a very good idea of what's what."
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#1050 years too late. Of course, 50+ years ago, it was the hippies doing the experimentation. As The Man hated the hippies and the youth culture of the time, they instituted these draconian drug laws we've lived under since making it impossible to determine whether drugs like LSD or psilocybin or cannabis might have beneficial therapeutic effects.
Better late than never?