Making Psychedelic Trips Safe — Even at Burning Man Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/SoulCurry August 9, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Being hospitalized or thrown into a jail cell while under the influence of a psychedelic drug is a recipe for nightmarish visions, paranoia and an all around “bad trip." Linnae Ponté is working with the Multidiciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) to shift the way we deal with those psychedelic drug users to a more practical, public-health-oriented system that won't land people with debt-inducing hospital bills or dark marks on their permanent records just because they were tripping. Ponté earned her degree in biological psychology from New College in Florida, a progressive liberal arts college with a “thriving psychedelic culture” and 24-hour dance parties. “People could go and lay down, close their eyes and get away from all the sounds and life and people,” Ponté says.
Utopian Pharmacology : Chemical Research Into the Human Condition The Second Coming of Psychedelics Ric Godfrey had the shakes. At night, his body temperature would drop and he’d start to tremble. During the day, he was jumpy. He started drinking and drugging, anything to numb out. Years passed before a Department of Veterans Affairs counselor told him he had severe posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Counseling helped a little, but the symptoms continued. Then one of his Seattle neighbors—a woman who also suffered from PTSD—told him about a group of veterans who were going down to Peru to try a psychedelic drug called ayahuasca, a jungle vine that is brewed into a tea. The next thing Ric knew, he was crawling into a tent on a platform out in the middle of the Amazon jungle. “Your body will not keep it in you,” Ric recalled. Three years later, Ric Godfrey says he hasn’t had a single symptom of the shakes or night terror since he came back from the jungle. “I’ve always been afraid that someone was out to get me, but I don’t have that fear anymore,” he says.
Top 10 Bizarre But True Drugs And Their Effects Health Seeking the ultimate high, people have ingested all kinds of bizarre chemicals and plants through history. Fortunately they have related (those who lived anyway) their experiences so we can now recount them to you. Prepare to be shocked by some of the contents on this list – you will almost certainly not know the drugging abilities of the majority of these. Anafranil (clomipramine) Anafranil is an anti-depressant that causes people to have orgasms every time they yawn. Yes, this pesticide – which has now been made illegal in many countries, can produce feelings somewhat like Ecstasy (Hear that environmentalists?? DIPT is a tryptamine that affects auditory (sound-based) functions. Saffron is a flower used as a food additive. It’s not just for cats anymore! Various Venoms and Poisons Many poisons (such as arsenic and strychnine) and venoms have been known to have hallucinogenic (and sometimes beneficial) effects! Source: The Disinformation Book of Lists Jamie Frater
List of misconceptions about illegal drugs LSD[edit] Some of the strangest urban legends told are those about lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a potent psychedelic drug that gained popularity in several countries in the 1960s and 1970s, and experienced a brief resurgence in the mid to late 1990s before declining from 2000 onward. The drug's relation to the 1960s counterculture was likely part of the reason for such legends. Attempted murder[edit] "Anyone caught selling LSD can be charged with attempted murder." Babysitter places baby in the oven while high on LSD[edit] This is an unverifiable drug-scare story dating to the 60s of a hippie babysitter girl putting a baby in the oven and a turkey in the bassinet. Bad LSD[edit] A "bad trip" is easily caused by an expectation or fear of ill effects, which may later be blamed on "bad acid." However, drugs described as LSD in the 1970s occasionally actually contained PCP, amphetamine, or other drugs that have quite different effects from LSD. "Bananadine" LSD[edit] Blue star tattoos[edit]