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Imagine seeing the world you’ve learned to know in a completely different perspective. Seeing colors stronger, lights brighter, feeling as though you are one with the universe while potentially ridding yourself of addition, metal disorders, or depression. Countless studies have shown that the uses of psychedelics coupled with therapy can produce breakthrough results in a variety of medical conditions as well as a person general outlook on life.
Some may argue the possible dangers in the use of psychedelic drugs such as Stephen J. Lee, a staff writer for the Grand Forks Herald newspaper. Lee reports that “Psilocybin a toxic chemical in mushrooms that acts as a hallucinogen, comes in acid form on blotter …show more content…
One of many types of psychedelic drugs is lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). It was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Albert Hofmann a Swiss chemist for pharmaceutical firm. Not until five years later on April 19, 1943 were any psychedelic properties were found. These finding were discovered when Hofmann accidentally got the chemical on his hands which entered his bloodstream and resulted in the world’s first LSD trip an hour later while he was on his way home. This iconic day is known as Bicycle Day. Beginning in the 1940s many studies were conducted in attempts to discover if the substance had any medicinal values. The studies were working to find potential therapies for a number of tough-to-treat disorders such as opiate, tobacco, and alcohol addiction, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Many scientist from the United States, Canada, and Europe conducted experimental research on volunteers and reported “positive and in some cases almost miraculous results” Tom Shroder, a journalist, writer and editor for the Washington Post, says. In 1960 a survey of the findings of 44 physicians who administered 25,000 doses of LSD or mescaline, a hallucinogenic compound found in mescal buttons of the peyote cactus, to 5,000 people under a variety of conditions, found no case of severe or prolonged physical side effects or any sign of addictive potential. Shroder went …show more content…
Scientist couldn’t figure out serotonins function in the brain until 1954 when a researcher noticed that its chemical structure had a resemblance to that of LSD. Further research uncovered that serotonin affected mood and thoughts, and that LSD and other psychedelic drugs worked by somehow changing the way the brain processes serotonin, consequently generating a hallucinogenic and euphoric trip. Over the years progress was being made and scientist were coming closer to answers on whether this drug was at all beneficial. In the 1970s the drug became well known and wide spread and was embraced by society which Shroder said “…seemed to threaten the status quo and in the panicked reaction, psychedelics were listed along with heroin in the highest rungs of prohibition”. After more than thirty years of psychedelic research being banned, in the 1990s the Food and Drug Administration approved the first human clinical studies of psychedelic
Imagine seeing the world you’ve learned to know in a completely different perspective. Seeing colors stronger, lights brighter, feeling as though you are one with the universe while potentially ridding yourself of addition, metal disorders, or depression. Countless studies have shown that the uses of psychedelics coupled with therapy can produce breakthrough results in a variety of medical conditions as well as a person general outlook on life.
Some may argue the possible dangers in the use of psychedelic drugs such as Stephen J. Lee, a staff writer for the Grand Forks Herald newspaper. Lee reports that “Psilocybin a toxic chemical in mushrooms that acts as a hallucinogen, comes in acid form on blotter …show more content…
One of many types of psychedelic drugs is lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). It was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Albert Hofmann a Swiss chemist for pharmaceutical firm. Not until five years later on April 19, 1943 were any psychedelic properties were found. These finding were discovered when Hofmann accidentally got the chemical on his hands which entered his bloodstream and resulted in the world’s first LSD trip an hour later while he was on his way home. This iconic day is known as Bicycle Day. Beginning in the 1940s many studies were conducted in attempts to discover if the substance had any medicinal values. The studies were working to find potential therapies for a number of tough-to-treat disorders such as opiate, tobacco, and alcohol addiction, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Many scientist from the United States, Canada, and Europe conducted experimental research on volunteers and reported “positive and in some cases almost miraculous results” Tom Shroder, a journalist, writer and editor for the Washington Post, says. In 1960 a survey of the findings of 44 physicians who administered 25,000 doses of LSD or mescaline, a hallucinogenic compound found in mescal buttons of the peyote cactus, to 5,000 people under a variety of conditions, found no case of severe or prolonged physical side effects or any sign of addictive potential. Shroder went …show more content…
Scientist couldn’t figure out serotonins function in the brain until 1954 when a researcher noticed that its chemical structure had a resemblance to that of LSD. Further research uncovered that serotonin affected mood and thoughts, and that LSD and other psychedelic drugs worked by somehow changing the way the brain processes serotonin, consequently generating a hallucinogenic and euphoric trip. Over the years progress was being made and scientist were coming closer to answers on whether this drug was at all beneficial. In the 1970s the drug became well known and wide spread and was embraced by society which Shroder said “…seemed to threaten the status quo and in the panicked reaction, psychedelics were listed along with heroin in the highest rungs of prohibition”. After more than thirty years of psychedelic research being banned, in the 1990s the Food and Drug Administration approved the first human clinical studies of psychedelic