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Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research

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Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research - The New York Times

The research center, with $17 million from donors, aims to give “psychedelic medicine” a long-sought foothold in the scientific establishment.

Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely ease. So in 2017 she volunteered for a small clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that was testing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for chronic depression.

“I was so depressed,” Ms. Petersen, 29, said recently. “I felt that the world had abandoned me, that I’d lost the right to exist on this planet. Really, it was like my thoughts were so stuck, I felt isolated.”
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Not surprisingly, this woman got her emotional act together after tripping on medical-grade psilocybin.

There are others getting into this area but I did not post the links to today's articles.

It seems that the big pharma industry is running out of targets in the brain to develop block-buster drugs like Prozac & Zoloft for.

Personally, I found that being stoned on weed helped me verbalize & thus overcome a lot of crap left over from growing up.

There is always the possibility of people like Timothy Leary going off the deep end when given virtually unlimited access to psychedelics.
 
I'm sixty-three and pretty much retired, wife and I will make GREAT study subjects!
Plus, I already have previous experience!
 
Tim Ferriss, the Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine - The New York Times

Here's the article I failed to post earlier:

Tim Ferriss, the Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine

he announcement on Wednesday that Johns Hopkins Medicine was starting a new center to study psychedelic drugs for mental disorders was the latest chapter in a decades-long push by health nonprofits and wealthy donors to shake up psychiatry from the outside, bypassing the usual channels.

“Psychiatry is one of the most conservative specialties in medicine,” said David Nichols, a medicinal chemist who founded the Heffter Research Institute in 1993 to fund psychedelic research. “We haven’t really had new drugs for years, and the drug industry has quit the field because they don’t have new targets” in the brain. “The field was basically stagnant, and we needed to try something different.”
 
This is as misguided as ECT.

It is a shame to waste resources like this.
 
noonereal said:
This is as misguided as ECT.

It is a shame to waste resources like this.
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Respectfully disagree.
When I said I already had previous personal experience, I didn't mention that my psychedelic experimentation broke me out of the mental prison of autism spectrum behavior.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Respectfully disagree.
When I said I already had previous personal experience, I didn't mention that my psychedelic experimentation broke me out of the mental prison of autism spectrum behavior.
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I am sincerely glad for you.

ECT has helped many.

I would never subject someone to either.

peace
 
noonereal said:
I am sincerely glad for you.

ECT has helped many.

I would never subject someone to either.

peace
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The question is, do you know anyone who might benefit from it?
And by the way, stop lumping psychedelics in with electro-convulsive therapy, because as much as you might think it's a bold statement, it is an utter flop, in much the same way as Edison's "War of the Currents".

Last but not least, you can't "subject" someone to it because the studies will probably only be open to adults, who are capable of making their own decisions.
 
I suggest people look up
Pihkal by Alexander Shulgin he was the leader in this field pretty much dedicating his life to it

Note I have know vets who want to use MDMA to help them relax and treat PTSD
 
What's it called? The Timothy Leary Center for Psychedelic Tripping?
 
JacksinPA said:
Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research - The New York Times

The research center, with $17 million from donors, aims to give “psychedelic medicine” a long-sought foothold in the scientific establishment.

Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely ease. So in 2017 she volunteered for a small clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that was testing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for chronic depression.

“I was so depressed,” Ms. Petersen, 29, said recently. “I felt that the world had abandoned me, that I’d lost the right to exist on this planet. Really, it was like my thoughts were so stuck, I felt isolated.”
===============================================
Not surprisingly, this woman got her emotional act together after tripping on medical-grade psilocybin.

There are others getting into this area but I did not post the links to today's articles.

It seems that the big pharma industry is running out of targets in the brain to develop block-buster drugs like Prozac & Zoloft for.

Personally, I found that being stoned on weed helped me verbalize & thus overcome a lot of crap left over from growing up.

There is always the possibility of people like Timothy Leary going off the deep end when given virtually unlimited access to psychedelics.
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Great post, but your last sentence seems irrelevant.

LSD is unique in that it has a fairly extensive clinical history from when the government actually allowed clinical experiments. Sorry for no link, but I've read a fascinating book about those experiments years ago.

One of the interesting aspects was that the test subjects were asked years later a series of questions, and one was whether the subjects considered their experience with LSD to have been a positive or negative event in their life. 85% responded that it had been a positive experience.
 
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