Between 1964 and 1966, the writer Ken Kesey and his gang of ‘Merry Pranksters’ travelled across the United States on a psychedelic bus, stopping regularly to throw LSD parties. These ‘acid tests’ would be one pathway from the Beat Generation to the hippie movement in the years to come...
The Weed Industry Isn't Feeling Too Anxious About Trump 2.0 Why Cannabis Faces a Customer Loyalty Problem and How the Industry Is Solving It Natalie Ginsberg, director of policy and advocacy at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit that’s been pavi...
The psychedelic drug LSD is also associated with various psychiatric problems, including psychotic breakdown, paranoia, and perceptual flashbacks. These are most prevalent in regular LSD users. Medical problems with MDMA can include cardiac, renal, and hepatic damage. Neuroimaging indices often show a ...
However, it is important to note that the use of LSD can also be associated with acute and persistent psychosis as a potential adverse effect. Therapeutic Uses: Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: PTSD: LSD has been explored in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), where it is...
Here, we evaluate these two fundamental properties of harmonic brain states, i.e. power and energy, to characterize brain activity in the LSD-induced psychedelic state. We define the power of an harmonic brain state (a connectome harmonic) as the strength of its activation for a given time ...
The senior arresting officer, aware of Owsley’s status, noted that the bust would probably cause “panic in the streets” because “to a lot of hippies, their idol has fallen.” He added that Owsley was “actually a psychedelic missionary” who “gives the impression that he feels the ...
Never thought that SVN would be kindasorta advocating psychedelic drug use. Awesomeness. I believe that it aids in perception due to moments of cyclical clarity and vision optimization, ie, get thinking about something, and then the psychedelic brain chews on it and “figures it out (, man)”...