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Research into Psychedelics, Shut Down for Decades, is Now Yielding Exciting Results

posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 11 2015, @04:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds dept.

tt0120889 writes:

Beginning in the nineteen-fifties, psychedelics had been used to treat a wide variety of conditions, including alcoholism and end-of-life anxiety. The American Psychiatric Association held meetings centered on LSD. Some of the best minds in psychiatry had seriously studied these compounds in therapeutic models, with government funding.

Between 1953 and 1973, the federal government spent four million dollars to fund a hundred and sixteen studies of LSD, involving more than seventeen hundred subjects. Through the mid-nineteen-sixties, psilocybin and LSD were legal and remarkably easy to obtain. Sandoz, the Swiss chemical company, gave away large quantities of Delysid—LSD—to any researcher who requested it, in the hope that someone would discover a marketable application.

Now, forty years after the Nixon Administration effectively shut down most psychedelic research, the government is gingerly allowing a small number of scientists to resume working with these powerful and still somewhat mysterious molecules.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 11 2015, @05:08PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday February 11 2015, @05:08PM (#143671) Journal

    All I can think about are the movies "The Men Who Start at Goats" and "Red".

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 11 2015, @05:52PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday February 11 2015, @05:52PM (#143691) Journal

    'bah, typo... should have been "The Men Who STARE at Goats"

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 11 2015, @08:39PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 11 2015, @08:39PM (#143756) Journal

    All I can think about are the movies "The Men Who Start at Goats" and "Red".

    I see.... mmmm...

    Research into Psychedelics, Shut Down for Decades, is Now Yielding Hallucinatory Results

    There, FTFY.
    (grin)

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