Mention psychedelics to almost anyone and inevitably you get the usual association to space - out hippies and back - alley junkies . There ’s little question that the current picture of psychedelics is a very negative one , and for those who take to use them , it can often carry a fairly heavy societal stigma . But as Sarah Seltzer noted in a late AlterNetarticle , scientist are increasingly regard various medical and psychiatrical uses for these drug . The taboo could be end .
Top image : The City of Lost Children .
Writes Seltzer :
psychedelic drug like LSD and psilocin were added to the 1970 Controlled Substance Act as Schedule I substances , which define them as give no medicinal note value and makes getting federal funding ( or the actual drugs necessary ) for inquiry near impossible . That is why , even now , many studies of pot and hallucinogen are conducted in other countries . Scientists want to conduct the research , but they could n’t , and for the most part , it ’s still very difficult .
It ’s hold decennium for American scientists , doctors and patients to have the probability to take a closer look at the the States of psychedelic drugs , not just recreational but medical , personal and therapeutic . Even now , Doctor who do this work are eager to distance themselves from Timothy Leary and his ilk .
And yet the shift has happened . The profession is back to exploring the various incontrovertible core of these drug , and their work is being cover by the mainstream medium . Here are some examples of ways psychedelics are being explored in medicine today .
say the entire clause at AlterNet .
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