Quote Originally Posted by 420mory
I find it interesting that after 40 years they are repeating Pahnke's Good Friday experiment and after equally many years t hey are discovering that psilocybin can be used to treat dependency and mental conditions.
Anyone recall the Concordia State Prison experiments of Leary and Metzner?
Both used psilocybin.

What does this say about the people who for the last 40 years have intentionally criminalised and destroyed people's lives?
I remember reading about the prisoners who participated in the experiments. One guy, a longtime junkie who had never done psychedelics, seemed incredibly calm the whole time to the people performing the test -which was unusual even under the best of circumstances when you first take large doses of psychedelics. This was because, as best as I can remember, his mindset was, ??Hey, I??m in jail, totally stoned out of my head, and it??s completely legal.? That was funny.

The psychedelic movement, in the opinion of some people such as Albert Hofmann, was sidetracked by , Leary, et al, and began to appear dangerous and irresponsible. I don't know if this is accurate, but it's at least partially true. Things went really fast in the 60's - from small underground drug and freedom movements, to a full-blown culture shock. The Vietnam war, social changes, and various other upheavals, probably hurt the chances of drug acceptance.

Well, we're back to square one with the plants and chemicals - but it's better than zero. Back in the day I thought that by the 21st Century, AT LEAST marijuana would be legalized.