Title: Recent Studies Show That Psychedelic Drugs Are Not Bad For Mental Health — But Alcohol Is Source:
Free Thought Project URL Source:http://thefreethoughtproject.com/st ... ugs-bad-mental-health-alcohol/ Published:Oct 10, 2015 Author:John Vibes Post Date:2015-10-10 12:16:27 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:32393 Comments:116
It is a matter of provable fact that psychedelics are the safest compounds within the modern drug culture. The strongest hallucinogen known to man dimethyltryptamine is actually less damaging to the human body than America’s favorite fix, caffeine.
Many substances that are deeply embedded in American culture such as alcohol, caffeine, nicotine or pharmaceutical narcotics are in fact toxins, while psychedelic compounds are actually physically benign and many times already occur naturally in human chemistry. What this means is that the chemicals which make psychedelics do what they do are actually naturally occurring compounds that are chemically suited for your body.
Study after study confirms the safety and natural composition of these substances, yet psychedelics are vilified in our media, politics and other cultural institutions. This massive public smear campaign exists because the establishment fears the impact that psychedelics would have on their control structure.
You see, these drugs are not dangerous to the individual or the community, but they make us seek our own answers about the world around us, instead of swallowing the line of garbage that we have been fed by the establishment.
Psychedelics will break down the personal ego and cultural barriers that our society has corrupted us with and will make negative cultural norms such as war, poverty and oppression seem completely insane. This kind of social clarity could be very dangerous for the establishment and their control system, which is why they insist that these substances are bad and cannot be introduced into society.
A recent study conducted by the Research Council of Norway has found that psychedelics do not have any long-term negative effects on mental health.
A recent large population study of 130,000 adults in the United States failed to find evidence for a link between psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin or mescaline) and mental health problems. Using a new data set consisting of 135,095 randomly selected United States adults, including 19,299 psychedelic users, we examine the associations between psychedelic use and mental health.
After adjusting for sociodemographics, other drug use and childhood depression, we found no significant associations between lifetime use of psychedelics and increased likelihood of past year serious psychological distress, mental health treatment, suicidal thoughts, suicidal plans and suicide attempt, depression and anxiety.
We failed to find evidence that psychedelic use is an independent risk factor for mental health problems. Psychedelics are not known to harm the brain or other body organs or to cause addiction or compulsive use; serious adverse events involving psychedelics are extremely rare. Overall, it is difficult to see how prohibition of psychedelics can be justified as a public health measure.
The study went on to point out that, “drug abuse experts consistently rank LSD and/or psilocybin mushrooms as much less harmful to the individual user and to society compared to alcohol and other controlled substances.”
The government isn’t against all drugs, they shove drugs down your throat every day through your food, alcohol, and prescriptions. What the government is against is people thinking about the world differently and questioning the authority that they have been trained to live under.
Psychedelics can catalyze this thought process, and it is for this reason that the American government took quick action to make these substances illegal and to vilify them in the public arena.
These psychedelic compounds are so important that we cannot let them be suppressed in the extreme manner that we see in western culture. Psychedelics offer us a glimpse into the final frontier of humanity, the consciousness. With these substances, we can explore the human imagination for profound insight that will help us in our own personal lives and the bigger picture as well. We must push for new legitimate scientific research into the therapeutic uses for these drugs. These studies will prove, as they have in the past, that psychedelic compounds have many medical and spiritual uses that are necessary for our species to continue the evolution of our consciousness.
The strongest hallucinogen known to man dimethyltryptamine is actually less damaging to the human body than America’s favorite fix, caffeine.
True,but I noticed you were careful to leave out harm to the mind. I suspect I know why.
Yeah,pretty much anybody can drop "clean" acid several times with no mental,physical,or emotional harm,providing they know they are talking acid and chose to do so.
Do it every day over a period of time and you become a walking vegetable. I do personally know a few people who appeared to be seriously burnt out back in the 70's that quit taking hallucinogens by the early 80's that seem to be ok now,but I would be surprised if they were back to a normal mental state. Too many fried synapses for a complete recovery.
Frankly,I am surprised they are doing as well as they are.
Not going to mention names or states,but I have seen one guy that is a regular cast member on a tv show that is now an adult with children of his own,but I remember when he was born,and I know for a fact his mother was taking LSD several times a week the whole time she was pregnant with him. He was a mental basketcase when he was a small child. He would be standing beside her while she was talking,and would suddenly start shrieking and pointing to things that weren't there.
He not only appears to be normal in all respects,but he even holds a very responsible job where the lives of others are in his hands and people could die if he makes wrong decisions.
I have also been told by people that know him as an adult that he neither drinks to excess or does drugs.
I know I seem to be contradicting myself,but IMHO this is not a "One Size Fits All" situation. To say that no one that does drugs like this for extended periods of time suffers any mental or physical injuries is insane.
A recent large population study of 130,000 adults in the United States failed to find evidence for a link between psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin or mescaline) and mental health problems. Using a new data set consisting of 135,095 randomly selected United States adults, including 19,299 psychedelic users, we examine the associations between psychedelic use and mental health.
After adjusting for sociodemographics, other drug use and childhood depression, we found no significant associations between lifetime use of psychedelics and increased likelihood of past year serious psychological distress, mental health treatment, suicidal thoughts, suicidal plans and suicide attempt, depression and anxiety.
We failed to find evidence that psychedelic use is an independent risk factor for mental health problems. Psychedelics are not known to harm the brain or other body organs or to cause addiction or compulsive use; serious adverse events involving psychedelics are extremely rare. Overall, it is difficult to see how prohibition of psychedelics can be justified as a public health measure.
I am NOT for keeping it illegal, but lying about its impact on those who don't have their shit together really rubs me the wrong way.
Well I suppose any drug taken by those who don't have their shit together can result in dire consequences.
Of course taking LSD every day is probably not a good idea, but then neither is drinking a fifth of whiskey a day.
The study did find ...no significant associations between lifetime use of psychedelics and increased likelihood of past year serious psychological distress, mental health treatment, suicidal thoughts, suicidal plans and suicide attempt, depression and anxiety. but doesn't elaborate how often the subjects used the drug - it just states "a lifetime of use".
That could mean once a week, once a month or once a year.
If one has never done LSD, they really have no frame of reference of what could happen. Also, even those who have done it, even the same exact batch, do not know how another may react to it.
Many have committed suicide during their first trip on that.
This study throws all that out, and to me, that's criminal negligence bordering on the point of murder if someone reads this and decides it's a safe thing, then trips on acid, hates what they see, and decide to end it.
Also, a drug that has no harmful effects on cells is heroin, and it is also much easier on the emotions than LSD.
If it wasn't for all those pesky stop breathing episodes, it would be wonderful.
Am surprised these people making this study haven't gone that route as well, but I guess selling heroin as safe is something not even Americans would believe.
Many have committed suicide during their first trip on that.
BullBush. I literally know hundreds of people who have taken LSD,and not a single one of them has offed themselves. In fact,the opposite is true. Those that were depressed gained insights into why they were depressed,and this gave them a handle on depression that helped them control it.
It's one of those urban myths created by the drug warriors.
