Psychedelic Drugs

[Stellathomas]

The psychedelic therapy is a therapeutic experience, not drug, even though it is induced by drugs. But it is also induced by many other means and may even come spontaneously with no known cause. Therefore when one tests the efficacy of psychedelic therapy one is not testing the efficacy of a drug. The usual rules for testing drugs no longer apply. It is the experience which is therapeutic, and LSD is merely a device for creating that experience. Other factors may be equally important such as the time of day, the setting, the support people who are there, and the objective of taking the experience. One could equally use psilocybin, or mescaline, or harmine or other compounds. LSD happens to have the right time sequence of activity so it is easier to work into a working day, compared with mescaline which lasts too long and other drugs which do not last long enough.
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Stellathomas




Massachusetts Drug Treatment

 

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you're kind of preaching to the choir, mate.

 

[GOD]

I like your post . I think you just pointed out an aspect that most people hadnt been aware of . I think that it would have been bettter not to include harmine in your list though as its not psychedelic at all , and i dont agree with mescaline being to long a trip to be usefull . I dont think that its any longer than LSD , and that when one looks at its history as a medicine one will see that its a very old proven and very effective medicine .