Posted on 10/16/2006 3:58:35 PM PDT by FFIGHTER
(10/16/06) - Imagine this.
You are hooked on alcohol and you want help getting off the booze.
You go to your doctor, and he or she says, "Drop some acid."
That's right. LSD, the infamous drug of choice for many hippies in the 1960s and '70s.
Lysergic acid diethylamide, the drug that caused hallucinations or "tripping," was, of course, outlawed, giving it immeasurable street cred in its time, before fading away as flower-painted bodies grew into gray-flannel suits.
So, in the 21st century, why would a respected medical doctor even consider prescribing LSD as a wonder drug to help cure alcoholism?
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
Yeah because your too stoned to find the can opener. LOL!
Yeah, right.
(ping the usual suspects)
Regards, Ivan
Very much like that. Like the booze isn't killing the brain cells fast enough.
Well, a bullet is a good cure for Islamofascism too....
Yes, avoid hangovers, --- STAY DRUNK!!!
I hate to tell them but when I was a youngster buying acid, I made sure to keep plenty of beer money handy because I knew I would be drinking to take the edge off.
yeah like anyone is going to read the complete article.
Speaking as an alcoholic with nearly 16 years of sobriety who took a lot of LSD while drinking, I can promise you that THIS DOES NOT WORK!
Being old enough to remember LSD pushed as a panacea, and with experience to the contrary, an emphatic “Not this (bleep) again!”
20 years, 11 months, 16 days later, I still don't miss it.
(but who's counting)
No kidding. The thing was I could drink incredible ammounts of alcohol without getting drunk but I tended to crave beer more than usual.
Ah, good ol LSD. The breakfast of champions- and environmentalist whackos.
15 years, 10 months, 13 days.
Hmmm, anyone ever tried not drinking as a "cure".
Perhaps much clinical study is neccesary before such radical methods are tried.
I remember around 5 in the morning needing to get enough booze in me to try to sleep.
I got a DUI once when I was 20. My blood alcohol was .013, but I couldn't drive because I was too busy tripping.
I never felt alcohol on acid. NOTHING touched acid, asolutely nothing.
That trip downtown in the trooper's Mustang was one of the coolest experiences ever- followed by actually arriving there, which was a major buzzkill.
In a related story: "Hanging as a cure for headache"
Hey oldtimers--
3 years, 8 days.
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