Psychiatrists used LSD therapeutically in the 1950s until the war on drugs rebranded it as dangerous. New research shows psychedelics have therapeutic and neuroprotective effects, contradicting decades of anti-drug propaganda.
I think one thing that was really compelling for me was watching the Netflix documentary. Hopefully it's still up, The Fantastic Fungi, or Fungi, where it really explains well, like where this whole war on drugs and this whole brainwashing essentially came because LSD that was already being used by psychiatrists, et cetera, in the '50s and seeing such positive results was just totally reclassified. And this whole war of drugs came. And so, you know, we were talking offline before, Born in New York, you know, it was all about this is your brain, this is your brain on acid, and it's like the worst thing you can do. But now looking at actual scientific literature, it's actually the opposite, right? And neuroprotective and all the rest of it too. So I think that for a lot of people who are maybe suspicious and they're not looking at the research just yet, to really realize where that initial thinking comes from is actually a bit of brainwashing essentially that, that happened historically. So time for change.
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