Judging from what we see come out of Washington DC (doesn't DC stands for delusion central?) is it safe to assume that the DC water supply is at least 2% psychedelic drugs?

MMMMMmmmmeeeeeeeeee ttttoooooooooo!!!!!!!!

maybe that's the point...........those weird things take your mind off your depression.............

You haven't tried Cymbalta!.. or some of the other combinations of pharmaceuticals they give people for depression (chronic pain and a host of other ills).

They say in the ads: "If your antidepressant isn't working - tell your doctor; you may need two!" (HUH!?)

If you have an adverse reaction to an antidepressant - they just send you to the Looney bin and get a referral kickback!

I'd stick with the LSD.
(But Billy, stop driving when you are on it please!)

Venge-girl
Even better research - check out MK-Ultra project and see what our lovely spooks have done in the way of "research".
They even found a way to make people "fly" out of windows.
Of course nothing of a dastardly nature happens in this country over the last 50 years without the vampyric fingerprints of Cheney/Rumsfeld.
Follow the links to the death of Dr. Frank Olson. This, unfortunately, is NOT fiction.

Another example of how we treat sysmptoms and not causes.

readyto-
I imagine the therapy would take place in a setting like that of Soylent Green with Edward G Robinson prostrate on a table with an IV in his arm viewing a lovely pastoral scene from long bygone years with (Brahms, Beethoven... yes, even Pink Floyd) playing in the background.
Perhaps this is what the "research" is directed toward?

yes

stardust-
In modern corporate techno-Newspeak-jargon it is called.... Food Science.
To answer your last question...
Any peoples which exterminates a native population to create a "New Country" upon the bones and ashes of the original inhabitants is very unlikely to be well adjusted and happy. Make sense?

Society itself would benefit from increased use of natural hallucinogens.

Magic-mushroom users are peaceful and loving and know to care for the earth and each other.

It is for this reason governments ban them: governments' utter irrelevancy and malignancy is exposed, and they simply can't exist--

Indeed, they did not exist--governments--until alcohol became the dominant human drug.

Alcohol keeps us stupid and grousing with each other.

Psilocybin and similar drugs cause us to love and care for one another.

Funny one is Schedule I (no use at all) and one can be bought by young men who are trained to kill by the Government--

In other words, if we re-establish the holistic worldview (All is one and One is All) given to us by a plant that seems designed for that purpose, factory farms and all the rest go away, because folks simply wouldn't stand for it.

Too small a space to really get it across, but read some Terence McKenna, or, better, take the five dried grams and sit silently in a darkened room for a few hours.

You'll soon know all you need to know.

Surely you don't mean to imply that the same scientists who research psychedelics should research pollution? They wouldn't be qualified.

Furthermore, the idea that depression is some kind of modern invention is naive at best. In the "Good Old Days" the people that were not suited for the terrible difficulty of daily life generally succumbed (i.e. died). If you were not as strong as your neighbors, and there was only enough food for one family, your family died. My guess is that they were pretty depressed during the dark, hungry times leading up to their demise.

Factory farming, though full of evils that we are all familiar with, is part of the reason that the population exploded to such a degree and people that surely would not have survived at all now have to deal merely with being unhappy all the time. Is that better? I don't know.

That isn't to say that only weak people are depressed. Plenty of strong people are also depressed, but it's not because we have technology, which has raised the level of daily life for pretty much everybody in western cultures, even those most lacking in privilege.

We no longer have to crap in outhouses, we no longer die of turburculosis before hitting our tenth birthday, and we no longer have to work the field for 14 hours a day in order to be able to eat food.

And even 100 years ago, people were spreading poisons on the ground to keep bugs and birds away from the crops. The poisons didn't have such fancy names, but they still were poisons.

Lastly, for anyone so enamoured of the past: go back just a little bit farther and you'll find that they were in fact using drugs in pretty much every culture on the face of the earth. So if none of my other arguments have been persuasive, listen to your own argument re-framed: drugs were good enough back in the Good Old Days, so they should be good enough now.

Ketamine is certainly not generally injected, (although that is the proper way to do it), but snorted. My guess is that you've never done it and don't know anyone who has either.

If that's the case, don't disparage it because you really don't know what you're talking about. Numerous studies have supported its effectiveness as a positive tool. Not even to mention its use in actual medical procedures.

Back when the psychedelic revolution was happening, injection was a regular method for acid and psilocybin (and DMT) as well in the clinical studies (and remains the primary method in current clinical studies).

Give him what Terence McKenna called "an heroic dose" of psilocybin mushrooms, five dried grams, and Yoo would either die from seeing the error of his ways--

Or he would be healed.

Yoo is a sick fuck, but our sick society produced him. Humans have lost the connection to the planet and each other, the simple truth that you are good to each other, the earth and all it contains, because it IS you. There is no distinction--

Psilocybin would demonstrate that with crystalline clarity to Yoo, and that truth might well destroy him. He would see he had only tortured himself and everything he loves--

Any readers to whom that makes no sense simply haven't been there.

You see it, you never un-see it. A critical mass of people must see again, or we are finished as a race.

Life is like running Microsoft's toy operating system. Frequent reboots are required. LSD allows one to do just that.

Acid == CTRL+ALT+DEL for the mind

Great quote.

You've never taken acid, and you accordingly have no idea what you are talking about.

The similarities between LSD and Paxil are, literally, None. Pharmacologically, one is a garbage barge (Paxil), the other, a quantum-powered magic micro submarine.

There is also, I'm afraid, not a single case of documented acid flashbacks.

Hunter Thompson himself complained about that fact--something like: Where are all the flashbacks the anti-drug propogandists kept promising me?

Sorry you had a bad time on SSRIs...they are a poison that has no more therapeutic effect than a placebo.

The only flashback I've had, is the instant I hear someone talking about flashbacks, as as in a flashback of remembering someone claiming to have had a flashback.

Another myth, is that Diane Linkletter was on LSD when she jumped out the window.

My experience over 30 years ago on LSD was magnificent, and profound. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Also, not making the distinction between general sometimes irresponsible and foolish use of LSD, and what might be learned from research is close minded.

There is ample evidence, if you just do some reading, that controlled use in a clinical setting, just a few times or even just once, has had absolute profound positive and life changing effects.

SSRIs are a horror for countless thousands.

You'll be hard pressed to find anyone who became suicidal by the use of any psychedelic.

Compare that with the widespread use, and detrimental effects of alcohol abuse.

Psychedelics are in a class entirely different, with most people doing it once or a hand full of times.