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"LSD made in CSSR" (2015,CZ) - documentary by Pavel Křemen and Czech Television, describes those times very interestingly https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10463665003-lsd-made-in-...
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Psychedelic-induced plasticity (ability to re-route) seems to lend itself to folks retaining their cognitive function in spite of damage (e.g. in context age, stroke).
It didn't seem to be doing Alexander Shulgin any favors in old age, from what I saw of his later interviews anyways. Though he probably exposed himself to far more than just psychedelics.
Something else to consider is that Shulgin said he usually only ever did maybe two or three sessions with any given substance, and then moved on to another one. It could be that one or more of them was beneficial, but he might not have taken enough of those particular ones to help. In contrast, Stanislav Grof had over 100 LSD sessions.
I don't think enough is known about the relationship between psychedelics and neurodegenerative diseases to say how and which psychedelics affect them, but there are some interesting ongoing studies to see what effect microdosing LSD has on Alzheimer's disease, the Phase 1 trials of which have recently completed:
https://newatlas.com/science/microdosing-lsd-alzheimers-phas...
Here's a documentary including the original 1968 documentary of the experiment on army officers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNK3dQES6I It's pretty hilarious (if you understand Czech). The officers are issuing non-sensical orders, can't stop giggling, can't put on masks, get into conflicts.
> During the experiment I experienced sensations of mostly unpleasant nature ... however if there's a need I'm willing to participate once again.
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That doesn’t seem possible. I’m not aware of a single documented case of an actual LSD overdose (in the fatal sense)
The amounts in their blood suggests they each got hundreds of times a normal dose. All eight survived (though it's not clear if they would have without hospital treatment).
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That doesn’t seem possible. I’m not aware of a single documented case of an actual LSD overdose (in the fatal sense)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/feb/26/research.sci...
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That doesn’t seem possible. I’m not aware of a single documented case of an actual LSD overdose (in the fatal sense)
The most famous example of how hard it is to overdose on LSD was probably the case where 8 patients were admitted after snorting what they thought was cocaine, but which turned out to be LSD. The amounts in their blood suggests they each got hundreds of times a normal dose. All eight survived (though it's not clear if they would have without hospital treatment).
When I first landed on this web page, I could read exactly 1 line of the article before closing all the popups: https://imgur.com/a/HcKD7cX