Effects of Psilocybin Mushrooms Last a Year
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Maybe that's why I haven't touched 'em in over 6 years...
Here's the link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/mushrooms_odd_dc
...and here's the text:
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "spiritual" effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
The researchers also said their findings show there are safe ways to test psychoactive drugs on willing volunteers, if guidelines are followed.
In 2006, Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues gave psilocybin to 36 volunteers and asked them how it felt. Most reported having a "mystical" or "spiritual" experience and rated it positively.
More than a year later, most still said the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction, Griffiths and colleagues report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
"This is a truly remarkable finding," Griffiths said in a statement. "Rarely in psychological research do we see such persistently positive reports from a single event in the laboratory."
The findings may offer a way to help treat extremely anxious and depressed patients, or people with addictions, said Griffiths, whose work was funded by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
"This gives credence to the claims that the mystical-type experiences some people have during hallucinogen sessions may help patients suffering from cancer-related anxiety or depression and may serve as a potential treatment for drug dependence," Griffiths said.
WIDELY OUTLAWED
While psilocybin is widely outlawed, many U.S. states and some countries overlook its use by indigenous people in religious ceremonies.
Supervision of its use is key, the researchers noted.
"While some of our subjects reported strong fear or anxiety for a portion of their day-long psilocybin sessions, none reported any lingering harmful effects, and we didn't observe any clinical evidence of harm," Griffiths said.
Hallucinogens should not be given to people at risk for psychosis or certain other serious mental disorders, the researchers said.
But Griffiths stressed that even those who reported fear said a year later they had no permanent negative effects.
Of the volunteers who took the one-day test of psilocybin, 22 of the 36 had a "complete" mystical experience, based on a detailed questionnaire.
Griffiths said 21 continued to rate highly on this standardized scale 14 months later.
"Even at the 14-month follow-up, 58 percent of 36 volunteers rated the experience on the psilocybin session as among the five most personally meaningful experiences of their lives and 67 percent rated it among the five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives," the researchers said.
The report included some comments from the volunteers.
"Surrender is intensely powerful. To 'let go' and become enveloped in the beauty of -- in this case music -- was enormously spiritual," one volunteer said.
Here's the link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/mushrooms_odd_dc
...and here's the text:
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "spiritual" effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
The researchers also said their findings show there are safe ways to test psychoactive drugs on willing volunteers, if guidelines are followed.
In 2006, Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues gave psilocybin to 36 volunteers and asked them how it felt. Most reported having a "mystical" or "spiritual" experience and rated it positively.
More than a year later, most still said the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction, Griffiths and colleagues report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
"This is a truly remarkable finding," Griffiths said in a statement. "Rarely in psychological research do we see such persistently positive reports from a single event in the laboratory."
The findings may offer a way to help treat extremely anxious and depressed patients, or people with addictions, said Griffiths, whose work was funded by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
"This gives credence to the claims that the mystical-type experiences some people have during hallucinogen sessions may help patients suffering from cancer-related anxiety or depression and may serve as a potential treatment for drug dependence," Griffiths said.
WIDELY OUTLAWED
While psilocybin is widely outlawed, many U.S. states and some countries overlook its use by indigenous people in religious ceremonies.
Supervision of its use is key, the researchers noted.
"While some of our subjects reported strong fear or anxiety for a portion of their day-long psilocybin sessions, none reported any lingering harmful effects, and we didn't observe any clinical evidence of harm," Griffiths said.
Hallucinogens should not be given to people at risk for psychosis or certain other serious mental disorders, the researchers said.
But Griffiths stressed that even those who reported fear said a year later they had no permanent negative effects.
Of the volunteers who took the one-day test of psilocybin, 22 of the 36 had a "complete" mystical experience, based on a detailed questionnaire.
Griffiths said 21 continued to rate highly on this standardized scale 14 months later.
"Even at the 14-month follow-up, 58 percent of 36 volunteers rated the experience on the psilocybin session as among the five most personally meaningful experiences of their lives and 67 percent rated it among the five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives," the researchers said.
The report included some comments from the volunteers.
"Surrender is intensely powerful. To 'let go' and become enveloped in the beauty of -- in this case music -- was enormously spiritual," one volunteer said.
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~Edward
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the one time i did acid, i sat in a chair for an hour listening to jimi and that quote describes it
I hope it was Electric Ladyland in it's entirety! That was always one of my favorites during my acid-eating days! Especially that epic "1983...A Merman I Shall Be". Whoa -- what an out-of-body experience that composition gave me!
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i think it was the greatest hits cd that came out in like '87....my roommate put it in......3rd stone from the sun blew my mind!
i'd love to do shrooms again....have done it in like 16 years
I listened to it at the beach on Acid one day. I walked down to this cove and heard the Mermans. I then laid down and watched all the clouds turn into skulls
Must have been "Kiss the Sky". I remember that compilation from that era.
I'm toying with doing them again as my fiance has never done anything like that and she's curious. I gave it up, but maybe one more time....
Sounds like it's been a while for you, but never too late I guess. Heck, I read in Dr. Albert Hoffmann's obituary (he's the guy who created LSD) that he was taking acid well into his 90's! And when he was in his late 70's, he was taking Ecstasy!
~Edward
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kiss the sky...yep that was it....i remember staring at an air conditioner vent watching it turn colors and shapes...like a kaleidescope.....:)
i'll never take acid again....it too intense.....but shrooms are always nice
i went on a trip only once - i was about 19 0r 20, and all i really remember is eveything going slo-mo, even voices and music. and everything around me got this rounded bulgy look to it, walls, tables, ceiling, everything.
for a year or so afterwards i would get these sort of slo-mo moments and the weird tab taste every now and then, and it scared me so bad i never went near it again!
Ohhhhhhhhh hell no!!!
Granted I've never done 'heavy' drugs, but fuck man, when I did Ecstasy........fuck, I don't want to do that ever again!! Maybe it was the people I was around, but it was a hell of a bad 'trip'
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Move to Holland and buy them in a smart shop. I'm not sure if they still sell them, though. There were talks about making the sale of shrooms illegal after a fifteen-year-old jumped off a bridge or something like that and his parents blamed Holland's drug policy, I think.
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That reminds me. I have to call some dudes and schedule one of those backpacking trips too.
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Also I love psychedelics! I remember my first mushroom trip like most remember their first loves. I will say that after a bunch of times in a short amount of time I had to stop just to remain sane... sort of
Yeah, I went through a couple of years that I'm surprised I survived. Small doses these days...
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The last time I did them I made tea out of them. Much easier on the stomach, less nausea (at least for me), and the tea (mixed with Kool-Aid) tasted great...
This, IMO, is the absolute best way to enjoy your mushrooms.
Wow! What a hilarious video to watch (and it's actually a serious video)!!!! Not sure what the military was thinking by giving their own troops LSD and then trying to achieve some sort of objective. Their laughing faces in that video says it all.
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They should be used to cure meth, heroin, cocaine type addicts.
I beleive there is an LSD trial currently underway in Vancouver for this...
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I've had a couple of moments where I look back and wondered how I lived.
Getting a shroom wave and running through the woods, only to go to where you were the next day and realize you were running over logs that had 50 foot drops into a shallow rocky river :eek: