Wednesday, September 9, 2015

“Hey man, want some acid?”

Can you believe this? 

An article appearing on the internet website WebMD reports how preliminary research suggests of the potential benefits using psychedelic drugs such as LSD or “magic mushrooms” to treat patients suffering from hard-to-treat anxiety, addiction or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The article does mention how this out-of-the-ordinary suggestion is based on a “review of small-scale and preliminary studies” conducted in the United States, Canada and Europe all of which await follow-up.”

What the heck does this mean – small scale and preliminary studies all of which await follow-up?

Was it done by a group of young college acid-heads from the United States and Canada vacationing in Europe who got together with some young Europeans and all stayed up all night partying at a psychedelic shack while listening to their favorite “acid-head” music?

This middle-aged man grew up in the generation in which LSD was the type of alphabet soup many young people preferred over the Campbell Soup brand and personally finds it hard to read and accept this unbelievable suggestion. 

But psychiatrists never cease to amaze me.  I’ve had some as acquaintances in my lifetime and two of them happened to be “basket case nuts” suffering from their own self-administered drug-induced mental disorders.  I know some doesn’t mean all but, nonetheless, “I only know what I know.”

So this suggestion gets my two thumbs down. 

My wise middle-aged man advice is to be on guard against some wacko psychiatrist you meet on the streets walking down a dark alley who, inspired by this research, shouts out to you, “Hey man, want some acid?”

Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum

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