The sooner we accept the reality that each one of us is a drug user, the sooner we’ll look at those who struggle with drug misuse from a place of compassion. This post from Drug Policy Alliance puts forward the case for ending the decades-old failed war on drugs. Who can honestly say that they don’t use drugs? I’m not necessarily talking about illegal drugs, like marijuana ... Continue Reading
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Oliver Sacks Explored the Brain with Legal LSD—Before Drug War
LSD helped Dr. Oliver Sacks be more empathic. It was legal then. Is the Drug War standing in the way of researching therapeutic benefits of psychedelics? This post from Drug Policy Alliance revisits the impact of drug war on drug education and research. What if Oliver Sacks had been born 20 years later? Would he have been able to explore new avenues of neurochemical and ... Continue Reading
Marijuana Use: A Critical Look at the Shadow Side
In this post from Wake Up World, Bernhard Guenther takes a critical look at the other side, which seems to be so ignored and denied, relating to how we tend to lie to ourselves about marijuana use. Marijuana One of the revealing things the curandero told me after the second ayahuasca ceremony is that I had an energy block/cyst in the area of my solar plexus due to residue ... Continue Reading
STUDY: Pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders: Current treatments and future directions
ABSTRACT: Modern pharmacological treatments for anxiety disorders are safer and more tolerable than they were 30 years ago. Unfortunately, treatment efficacy and duration have not improved in most cases despite a greater understanding of the pathophysiology of anxiety. Moreover, innovative treatments have not reached the market despite billions of research dollars invested ... Continue Reading
Drugs: Another Means toward Altering Consciousness?
In this article from The Huffington Post, Sam Harris presents a holistic point of view on ingesting drugs, drug policies, and our responsibilities as a society toward drug use. Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy ... Continue Reading