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Written by jesse
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 00:00 |
 The past few weeks a couple of misleading headlines were published allover the Dutch media. "Psychedelic truffles, which are being sold in smartshops since the ban on shrooms in 2008, are just as addictive and dangerous as magic mushrooms." That's what psychiater and drug-expert Don Linszen , from the Academic Medical Centrum of the University Amsterdam, said. He made his claim in a christian broadcasting show (Dit is de Dag - 'this is the day') on Radio1. The Dutch media copied the message and wrote that the truffles are just as dangerous as the magic shrooms which were made illegal last year. Actually mr Linszen is right: magic mushrooms are just as addictive as truffles, which is because they both have a 0% dependency. With this message, however, the suggestion was made that shrooms and truffles are indeed very addictive. As we all know, except for this so called drug expert, mushrooms (and truffles) are not addictive at all. Even the government’s own research in 2008 concluded they are not.
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Written by Times Online
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 00:00 |
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 Ketamine for depression and LSD for improving brain power; meet the lady who funds the science that no-one else will do, Amanda Feilding is on a mission to unlock the secrets of the mind
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Written by guardian.co.uk
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:00 |
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 James Randerson discusses the use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD to treat ailments from depression to cluster headaches.
Scientists are exploring the use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD to treat a range of ailments from depression to cluster headaches and obsessive compulsive disorder.
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Written by jesse
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Friday, 01 August 2008 00:00 |
 Requested by the Dutch Ministry of Health to get insight in the risks on Magic Mushrooms, the Coordination Centre for the Assessment and Monitoring of new drugs (CAM) has carried out a risk assessment on psychotropic mushrooms containing the active substances psilocin and psilocybin. The research center advised NOT to ban shrooms, yet the Ministry decided to ignore the advice and proceed to ban.
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Written by jesse
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Friday, 23 March 2007 00:00 |
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 Alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many illegal drugs including the hallucinogen LSD and the dance drug ecstasy, according to a new scale for assessing the dangers posed by recreational substances.
Drug specialists say the current system for ranking drugs - class A for the most dangerous to class C for the least dangerous, as set out in the Misuse of Drugs Act - is irrational, arbitrary and "lacking in transparency".
Scientific evidence shows that heroin and cocaine are correctly ranked as class A drugs as they do cause the most harm. But LSD and ecstasy come close to bottom of the league in terms of harm caused, yet they are also labelled as class A (in the United Kingdom)
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Written by MSNBC.com
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Wednesday, 20 December 2006 00:00 |
 First study of psilocybin since '70s finds it reduces severe compulsion
The Associated Press
updated 8:18 p.m. ET Dec. 20, 2006
TUCSON, Ariz. - A preliminary study of the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms has found it is effective in relieving the symptoms of people suffering from severe obsessive compulsive disorder, a University of Arizona psychiatrist reports.
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Written by jesse
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Monday, 01 August 2005 00:00 |
 Book: "What The Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" , by John Markoff.
John Markoff does an admirable job of it by focusing on three main themes: personal computing and networking, social consciousness leveraged by technology, and spiritual psychedelic components that fused new tech with new consciousness.
In the 60's the Menlo Park Institute in California was working with LSD and other powerful psychoactive substances in a variety of healing and creative settings. Interestingly, some of the participants in the Menlo Park work were the very same people who created the personal computer and the Internet, and who provided the inspiration and energy that ultimately led to many of today’s progressive movements.
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