Is LSD Good for You? - General

Just found this article via StumbleUpon: [url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-19/is-lsd-good-for-you/]"Is LSD Good for You?" - The Daily Beast[/url] Here's a quick tl;dnr summary: [quote="'Is LSD Good For You?'"]As the FDA paves the way for clinical LSD trials, scientists are exploring its medical benefits. Is acid the new Xanax? Plus, from Angelina to The Beatles, a gallery of celebrity trippers. Bob Wold doesn't seem like your typical acid tripper. A happily married 56-year-old contractor with four kids who lives the suburbs of Chicago, he had never considered taking psychedelic drugs until about 10 years ago. At the time, he was suffering from cluster headaches—known as “suicide” headaches because they’re so painful—for 12 hours a day, and he was spending more than $20,000 a year on medication. Then he read a post on a support-group Web site from someone who said they’d found a miracle cure for their own cluster headaches: LSD. Wold decided to try it. "Compared to brain surgery,” he says, “taking a couple hits of LSD looked a lot more attractive.” But ever since a bust of the country’s biggest LSD lab nine years ago, the drug has become much harder to find. So Wold got his hands on the closest equivalent he could think of: psilocybin “magic” mushrooms (though he has since switched to LSD, which he says works better). The psychedelics arrived in a brown box at his doorstep from a long-distance dealer. He took one dose: about 1.5 grams. "In 15 minutes I could feel the difference,” he says. “My head was clearer than it had probably been in the past 20 years. Other medications felt like they were just covering it up.” But on acid, “All the pressure was gone."[/Quote] Make sure to read the comments on the article. There are a few posters there who use LSD/Psilocybin medicinally (in small, non-recreational doses, of course) and... surprise... it actually works for them. Who'd have thought? :wink:

syd barret

Yeah man the beatles doing acid sure is a surprise. Acid isn't bad for you!!!!!!! I TELL THIS TO EVERYONE AND I ALWAYS GET "no man it's made from a mold scraped off Gangrene" .. Seriously. :(

That's tight i have headaches anyone wanna spare free acid

[QUOTE=aridpheonix;17037534]That's tight i have headaches anyone wanna spare free acid[/QUOTE] lol, if I could find any in this fucking city, I'd help you out :biggrin:

No, acid is not physically bad for you. Mentally, it has the capability of being damaging to people with [i]possible previous mental conditions never brought to light.[/i] Just like it's possible to be damaging psychologically, there is no surprise it would be a benefit to unknown triggered physical problems, like Migraines, Cluster Headaches and the like.

Indeed.

naw man it makes your brain bleed /sarcasm I wanna try some acid though

Super! Now we have two of these threads in the same fucking forum!

ventilated is a smart human being

Not everything drug related means "LOLOL DRUGGIES AND JUNKIES ONLY!!". That's a bad way of looking at it. Everyone is a druggie to some degree unless they've never taken prescription medicine, and never drank at all. Any medical revelation of an "Illegal" drug such as this, is definitely not a bad thing, and belongs In The News.

well, if they're ever going to incorporate this into medication, it'll be relatively low doses of LSD, probably the lowest possible that'll treat the conditions it is used for. I know most of you(and me) would love to trip on acid legally, but i'm sure not every person with headaches would want to.

Regardless, it shouldn't be restricted, government has no right to tell me, or you, what can and can't go in my body.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;17040323]Regardless, it shouldn't be restricted, government has no right to tell me, or you, what can and can't go in my body.[/QUOTE] I agree, i'm just being realistic(and highly optimistic) that if they do anything, that'd be what they would do.

LSD may not be good for all of you, but it's definitely great for me. If I could trip acid every day I would.

For me LSD is the opposite to a nuclear bomb. If we could give acid to all the people in the world i think our world would become alot more peaceful and happy. LSD and many other psychedelics have proved to be great treating psychosis, schizophrenia and drug addiction. Every doctor that works with schizophrenia should alteast try LSD once to get a insight how the world of schizophrenia is. LSD is the best migrane medicine ever, just one low dose can remove the migrane for weeks to months.

[QUOTE=Stalk;17041788]For me LSD is the opposite to a nuclear bomb.[/QUOTE] You're going to need to explain this [QUOTE=Stalk;17041788]If we could give acid to all the people in the world i think our world would become alot more peaceful and happy.[/QUOTE] Um... no [QUOTE=Stalk;17041788]LSD and many other psychedelics have proved to be great treating psychosis, schizophrenia and drug addiction.[/QUOTE] Source for psychosis/schizophrenia, because that is the complete opposite of what I've heard [QUOTE=Stalk;17041788]Every doctor that works with schizophrenia should atleast try LSD once to get a insight how the world of schizophrenia is.[/QUOTE] Maybe [QUOTE=Stalk;17041788]LSD is the best migraine medicine ever, just one low dose can remove the migraine for weeks to months.[/QUOTE] I won't argue with you on that one. Why not? [b]Because that is the basis of the article I posted in the OP[/b]

[QUOTE=Stalk;17041788]For me LSD is the opposite to a nuclear bomb. If we could give acid to all the people in the world i think our world would become alot more peaceful and happy. [/QUOTE] Yeah I get it, you love acid. So do I but I'm not blind enough to think it's the cure for or the worlds problems. If you gave acid to all the people in the world the world would be full of tripping people that wouldn't get anything done. And just because you can handle it doesn't mean everyone can. Plenty of people have very rough experience. [QUOTE=Stalk;17041788] LSD and many other psychedelics have proved to be great treating psychosis, schizophrenia and drug addiction. Every doctor that works with schizophrenia should alteast try LSD once to get a insight how the world of schizophrenia is. .[/QUOTE] So.. you say lsd is great at treating schizophrenia, but also taking it allows you to understand what being schizophrenic is? Try to contradict yourself less.

LSD no doubt helps with migraines, headaches, and pretty much a great painkiller.

I would never use any drug other themn weed

[QUOTE=djmontana;17099922]I would never use any drug other themn weed[/QUOTE] Oh how many people have said that

ahahah, i lol'd hard when i saw the beatles movie, it was hilarious

[QUOTE=djmontana;17099922]I would never use any drug other themn weed[/QUOTE] Good thing to say but often hard to do. Ever considred trying a psychedelic, if you like the "way" you think on weed then you are abselutley going to love the epic psychedelic experience.

[QUOTE=Stalk;17105657]Good thing to say but often hard to do. Ever considred trying a psychedelic, if you like the "way" you think on weed then you are abselutley going to love the epic psychedelic experience.[/QUOTE] Yeah, when I started, I said I was only going to do weed. Well, we all know how well that worked out. But I would never call marijuana a gateway drug, or at least not anymore than I would call caffeine, tobacco (nicotine), or alcohol gateway drugs. I mean, honestly, alcohol is the first drug I've ever done. I started drinking Freshman year of high school. I didn't get drunk until Senior year, but during the summer after Freshman year, while sitting at home, alone and bored, I'd get into my parents liquor, and make myself a gin and juice. I never drank more than one, just enough to feel a buzz, and gain an understanding of alcohol. It's funny, I started drinking in a manner far more responsible than most adults... That's also how I came to appreciate the taste of liquor. I can drink any hard liquor straight (though I've learned my lesson with Everclear... no more shots of that :frown:). Chasers? What? No thanks.

[QUOTE=djmontana;17099922]I would never use any drug other themn weed[/QUOTE] I said the same thing. Then Ecstasy came along, now I'm debating between mushrooms or acid. Still a little frightened about acid though.

[QUOTE=Rastaboy;17107549] Still a little frightened about acid though.[/QUOTE] I was at first, wait until you want to do it before you do. I just waited until it felt like the right time and it was well worth waiting.

I'd say E is more of a gateway drug then weed.

[QUOTE=5150Luke;17108505]I'd say E is more of a gateway drug then weed.[/QUOTE] Hm, I'd say you're right. For me, it went like this: Caffeine --> Alcohol --> Cigarettes --> Marijuana --> Ecstasy --> Shrooms --> DXM --> DPH --> LSA --> LSD

Caffeine (didn't really look at it as a drug) Vicodin Marijuana Cigarettes Salvia DXM Cocaine Oxy's and Perc's (snorting) Shrooms (didn't trip as much, had the fucking giggles though) Ecstacy LSD could bring out religious believes, which can bring more selfconfidence and faith. I would think so psychologically, but not physically.

[QUOTE=djmontana;17099922]I would never use any drug other themn weed[/QUOTE] I never once thought that.. Contrary to most people, I always knew I wanted to do LSD and psychedelics. Opiates we're a step to far though.