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Title: 'Magic mushroom' treatment hailed
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The Press Association
URL Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/uk ... M5hWbG-I0ymNfGkQElTl7RuurJzijg
Published: Sep 6, 2010
Author: UKPA
Post Date: 2010-09-06 21:46:03 by hondo68
Keywords: go ask Alice, Shrooms, Doormouse, said
Views: 654
Comments: 6
A mind-altering "magic mushroom" drug can safely improve the lives of patients with advanced cancer, it has been claimed. Controversial research in the US showed that one session with the drug, psilocybin, improved mood and reduced anxiety in the patient group for up to six months. Psilocybin is the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms", and classified as an illegal Class A drug in the UK. The drug has psychedelic effects that can include the enhancement of colours and visual hallucinations. Professor Charles Grob, from the LA BioMed research institute in Los Angeles, California, said: "We are working with a patient population that often does not respond well to conventional treatments. "Following their treatments with psilocybin, the patients and their families reported benefit from the use of this hallucinogen in reducing their anxiety. "This study shows psilocybin can be administered safely, and that further investigation of hallucinogens should be pursued to determine their potential benefits." The pilot study involving 12 volunteers aged 36 to 58 builds on work in the 1950s and 1960s which found that psychedelic drugs could benefit advanced-stage cancer patients, reducing anxiety and the need for pain medication. The early research was abandoned in the 1970s after a legal clampdown on the recreational use of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD. "Political and cultural pressures forced an end to these studies in the 1970s," said Prof Grob. "We were able to revive this research under strict federal supervision and demonstrate that this is a field of study with great promise for alleviating anxiety and other psychiatric symptoms."
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Read this book: Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Dr. Paul Stamets. You shall never be the same.
"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET
Magic mushrooms make you feel good! How much money did they spend on this research?
"Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. I see you've been doing research eh buck? (Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.) LOL!
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
That's the problem.
I see you've been doing research eh buck? (Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.) LOL! Exactly. I am trying to find a natural way down from reading your inane and often insane posts.
"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET
Taking a trip, without leaving the farm?
#2. To: hondo68, buckroo (#0)
Senator Jacob Howard, Co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.
#3. To: buckeroo, James Deffenbach, farmfriend (#1)
Read this book: Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Dr. Paul Stamets. You shall never be the same.
#4. To: buckeroo (#1)
You shall never be the same.
#5. To: Original_Intent (#3)
#6. To: buckeroo (#1)
You shall never be the same.
My joy over McCain's defeat, is offset by my disappointment over hObama's victory.
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