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Magic mushrooms lifts severe depression in trial
www.telegraph.co.u ^ | 17 May 2016 • 1:17pm | Henry Bodkin

Posted on 05/17/2016 1:03:20 PM PDT by Red Badger

Psilocybin, which is found in magic mushrooms, was administered to depression patients in a pill Credit: TELEGRAPH

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A hallucinogenic chemical found in magic mushrooms has successfully lifted severe depression in previously untreatable patients.

Scientists at Imperial College London induced intense psychedelic trips in 12 people using high doses of the banned substance psilocybin.

A week after the experience all the volunteers were depression-free, and three months later five still had no symptoms of the condition.

Published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, the study welcomes the results as “promising, but not completely compelling".

Its authors are now seeking further funding from the Medical Research Council and other bodies to carry out fuller trials.

They conceded, however, that the use of a placebo control, a crucial component of thorough clinical trials, would be difficult as it would be obvious who was having a hallucinogenic experience and who was not.

The psilocybin is believed to cause relief from depression by targeting receptors in the brain and disrupting the Default Mode Network, which is responsible for sense of self and is overactive in depressed people.

However, the scientists did not rule out that the psychedelic trip could have caused an “awakening”, of the kind achieved by spiritual teaching, which also helped lift the depression.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: lsd; psilocybin
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

No man, I’m Dave! I think the cops saw me, man!


61 posted on 05/17/2016 8:08:26 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary)
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To: Liberty Valance

Thanks. My boy and I spent four hours tonight, playing 40 year old LPs.

As I was heading out to retire for the night, he asked if he could hold on to the Ohio Players and Robin Trower platters for a bit.

Boy sure knows how to melt his daddy’s heart :-)


62 posted on 05/17/2016 10:32:44 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier
God bless you both ...

Guy Clark - Stuff that works

63 posted on 05/17/2016 11:14:01 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Windflier
Always Trust Your Cape - Guy Clark
64 posted on 05/17/2016 11:25:52 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Red Badger

Cow pies or not, those things grow all over the place around here!

But usually only in the AM - by afternoon, they are frayed up and mostly gone.


65 posted on 05/17/2016 11:44:17 PM PDT by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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To: djf
But usually only in the AM - by afternoon, they are frayed up and mostly gone.

........and you know this because..............................

66 posted on 05/18/2016 6:05:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: LadyDoc
Soros has been pushing drug legalization for years. A drugged population is a happy population.

Brave New World............Soma...............

67 posted on 05/18/2016 6:07:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: TigersEye; Psalm 73
It’s hard to be depressed when you’re amazed.

James Wayne "Jim" Stafford (born January 16, 1944) (Stafford was raised in Winter Haven, Florida) "Wildwood Weed" The name of this song is 'The Wildwood Flower' Now 'The Wildwood Flower' is an old country classic It gained a whole new popularity The song isn't any more popular But the flower is doin' real good The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm And we never knowed what it was called Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed I didn't gave it much thought... One day I was out there talking to my brother Reached down for a weed to chew on Things got fuzzy and things got blurry And then everything was gone I Didn't know what happened But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffin' burlap I come to and my brother was there And he said, 'What's wrong with your eyes?' I said, 'I don't know, I was chewing on a weed' He said, 'Let me give it a try' We spent the rest of that day and most of that night Trying to find my brother, Bill Caught up with him 'bout six o'clock the next mornin' Naked, swinging on the windmill He said he flew up there I had to fly up and get him down He was about half crazy The very next day we picked a bunch of them weeds And put 'em in the sun to dry Then we mashed 'em up and we cleaned 'em all And put 'em in the corncob pipe Smokin' them wildwood flowers got to be a habit We didn't see no harm We thought it was kind of handy Take a trip and never leave the farm A big ol' puff on the wildwood weed Next thing you know We's just wandering behind the little animals All good things gotta come to an end And it's the same with the wildwood weed One day this feller from Washington come by And he spied us and he turned white as a sheet And he dug and he burned And he burned and he dug And he killed all our cute little weeds Then he drove away We just smiled and waved Sittin' there on that sack of seeds Y'all come back now, ya hear

68 posted on 05/18/2016 6:12:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: BipolarBob; arthurus
Sunshine is the magic medicine for depression

If that were true, then California, Hawaii and Florida wouldn't have any depressed people!..................

69 posted on 05/18/2016 6:14:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: Red Badger

Those places have fewer of them. Many people cover up in sunny weather, especially in states like Florida and California. They are there all the time, not vacationing there. Also, even Florida (I live in FL) is far enough north that the angle of the sun renders the UV- vitamin D producing rays much weaker, insufficient for depression treatment or for anti virus protection. Colds and Flu are endemic in Winter because of the lack of sunshine derived vitamin D. I and all my family take D-3 supplements all winter and none of us has had any virus in years. My daughter is one who was manic depressive and she has fixed all that with D-3 sups. No more Prozac.


70 posted on 05/18/2016 8:12:31 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali soli o feccia.)
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To: arthurus

HOWDY NEIGHBOR!.................FWB...........


71 posted on 05/18/2016 8:27:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: faithhopecharity

[Psychedelic Mushrooms And LSD Are Among The Safest Recreational Drugs, Survey Finds]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/global-drug-survey-mushrooms-lsd_us_5925e0ede4b061d8f81ec08f

Hofpo would never lie.


72 posted on 05/26/2017 7:58:57 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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