Acid and shrooms tested on cancer patients

amsterdamage · Nov 13, 2008

I guess this goes here since it's about other drugs???

http://cbs13.com/health/hallucinogen.cancer.diagnosis.2.863255.html

Griffiths got rare government permission to conduct tests right here in Maryland using psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms.

Before testing cancer patients, tests had to be done on healthy volunteers like Sandy, who signed up and swallowed two pills.

"It wasn't one piece of it but the whole of that experience...there's no other word to call it but spiritual," she said.

Like many others who try hallucinogens, at first Sandy described what she called a kaleidoscope of colors. But then she says she saw the planet, space, rivers and mountains, then a journey into the past.

"I could see ancient people," she said. "I saw a temple...I saw the processional of Jesus Christ coming down the road and I felt like I was in the crowd."

Then the hallucinations took her into her own past. She began crying when she revisited her father's death.

"In the session, I actually could feel the full impact of his death and how I just really missed him," she said.

So how can an experience like Sandy's help someone with cancer? Dr. Griffiths says about 60% of the volunteers said their hallucinations were spiritual and brought long-lasting positive changes in mood and attitude.

"An effect of this sort would be very, very useful to someone who is in distress because of a cancer diagnosis," he said, "and get people to live more fully in the time they have available."

With the success of the first phase, Dr. Griffiths is now looking for cancer patients to continue his hallucinogenic study.
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dzk · Nov 13, 2008

badass!

Pilsbury dBoy · Nov 13, 2008

thats cool dude. Acid and shrooms are sure life changers. I remember after I dropped acid all I wanted to do was help people

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