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Title    Research into Psychedelics, Shut Down for Decades, is Now Yielding Exciting Results
Date    Wednesday February 11 2015, @04:38PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/02/11/1319211

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.

Links

  1. "gingerly allowing a small number of scientists to resume working with these powerful and still somewhat mysterious molecules." - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment

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