if u live in Baltimore...

[Mr.Vega]

Johns Hopkins is putting together a study on psilocybin use and quitting smoking...I ran across it on the net..I clld to offer myself for the study for true intentions. ..they responded and were going to accept me as a potential participant in the study but because I don't live in the immediate Baltimore area (3hour drive was too much) I cldnt participate. ..they sd it requires "frequent visits"...BUMMER!!!!...but they're accepting applicants and dsnt start til Nov or Jan soon as they fine tune it some she sd...so if ur interseted....and u live in baltimore n u smoke n have eaten shrooms before...they want YOU

 

[canndo]

Interesting, I believe I have heard this study mentioned in some recent documentary I happened across - I wonder, could it be the same study? Seems kind of like over kill - psilocybin and cigarettes? I can't imagine some poor straight working mom who agonizes over her pack and a half a day habit opting to attempt a cure by entering into the animated world of an eighth of an ounce of rightly prepaired mushrooms.

"yes, that stuff cured me of my cigarette addiction, oh, and I have decided to leave my two year old and eight year old with my mother and take up residence in a commune in rural Maryland".

 

[Mr.Vega]

Haha.....
Well maybe young mothers should not participate in the study...this may b one of the things they're "tweeking"...ha

 

[Mr.Vega]

U can go to "MAPS"..That psychedelic website and find info on the study and a bunch of other trippin studies. ..this was the only one that interested me.

 

[MrEDuck]

Interesting

 

[Blazin Purps]

I can totally see how mushrooms could help quit a substance, I attribute a large part of my quitting drinking to a couple half ounce mushroom trips where I concentrated my whole trip around the idea of it. I do have to mention that my experience tripping with these intentions was not enjoyable like a normal smaller dosed trip as one would imagine but it really unlocked my brain and I quit alcohol cold turkey with a 1-2 liter vodka habit a night. Sounds like a great study to me good looking out Mr. Vega

 

[Mr.Vega]

I can totally see how mushrooms could help quit a substance, I attribute a large part of my quitting drinking to a couple half ounce mushroom trips where I concentrated my whole trip around the idea of it. I do have to mention that my experience tripping with these intentions was not enjoyable like a normal smaller dosed trip as one would imagine but it really unlocked my brain and I quit alcohol cold turkey with a 1-2 liter vodka habit a night. Sounds like a great study to me good looking out Mr. Vega

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That's awesome man....drinking is an aweful habit imo....I've eaten them a couple times in the past few months n I noticed each time in the days after I had my health both physically and spiritually in consideration....I need to quit smoking cigarettes my heart and lungs have both been thru a lot already..I cough up black mucus from my lungs (lugees?) several times a day...everyday....and it opened my eyes to certain situations pertaining to relationships I have...good and bad that I need to work on....I ate shrooms alot when I was younger but always for fun n just to trip balls I never used them to work on myself in positve ways...now that I'm a little older I wanna start using them occasionally for more serious reasons.

 

[Skuxx]

When I still smoked cigarettes, I had one mushroom trip where I could feel the airways in my lungs. It felt like almost all of them were clogged and I was dying from it. It wasn't a good feeling that's for sure. But it didn't convince me to quit. If people get diagnosed with lung cancer and keep smoking, I don't think a trip will make you stop either. But it sure can help.

 

[canndo]

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That's awesome man....drinking is an aweful habit imo....I've eaten them a couple times in the past few months n I noticed each time in the days after I had my health both physically and spiritually in consideration....I need to quit smoking cigarettes my heart and lungs have both been thru a lot already..I cough up black mucus from my lungs (lugees?) several times a day...everyday....and it opened my eyes to certain situations pertaining to relationships I have...good and bad that I need to work on....I ate shrooms alot when I was younger but always for fun n just to trip balls I never used them to work on myself in positve ways...now that I'm a little older I wanna start using them occasionally for more serious reasons.

Mushrooms can be fun, but that is not now nor has it ever been a serious reason to take them. You must probably be aware that I hold them in certain reverence, and that is because they are in realtiy a harsh but fair teacher. I have for decades used them to clarify life decisions, to amplify my ability to feel or understand, to bring myself closer to another (no, mdma, nice as it is, is a sham when it comes to the realities of relationships). I have used them as a microscope for my behavior and the behavior of others and I have on occasion used them as raw power. Power that I admit I misused but the mushroom soon corrects such abuse. the raw power is as seductive as the insight the mushroom IMPOSES upon you is serious.

And, if you don't carry through with the vows you make to yourself, the next time you enter the realm, you will be spanked, or worse. there is always that monsterous mirror lurking inside the realm. Only a few can withstand that mirror being fully trained upon you without being permanently altered,usually for the better.

 

[Mr.Vega]

Yeah I've had all these same feelings experiences and insights fall upon me w my years of shroom and lsd use...mdma nvr gave such feelings either..only feelings of closeness or connection to another never "supernatural" type powers such as controlling others and situations and being able to "see into and thru ppl and situations"...I actually felt and feel that after so much use its permanently made me that way..especially w the power of speaking my will into existence. ...happens often in its own time...or this could be a delusional self inflated god type image along w A LOT of coincedence as as side effect of years of heavy drug use....???...hard to say sometimes....anyways most of that is the "norm" for me n has been since my early twenties...I'm wanting to reach a little further than that kinda stff...lookin for some answers for questions of slightly diff subjects but same ball park at this point of my journey.....I think the shrooms can help.

 

[Impman]

more parents should trip. it would be a better world, i doubt anyone would run off to a commune but a lot of kids would be better off

 

[Kervork]

There were experiments back before LSD was made illegal in alcohol succession. I suspect halucinogens can be useful for quite a few things. Addiction, cluster headaches, depression, psychotherapy.

All the halucinogens are schedule 1 which means they have no medicinal use. Demonstrating that is not the case will cause a few cracks in the DEA's little scheduling plan. Perhaps that is why they made it so hard to get approval to experiment with these substances.

Keeping some of the more worthy compounds illegal is a crime against humanity.

 

[canndo]

There were experiments back before LSD was made illegal in alcohol succession. I suspect halucinogens can be useful for quite a few things. Addiction, cluster headaches, depression, psychotherapy.

All the halucinogens are schedule 1 which means they have no medicinal use. Demonstrating that is not the case will cause a few cracks in the DEA's little scheduling plan. Perhaps that is why they made it so hard to get approval to experiment with these substances.

Keeping some of the more worthy compounds illegal is a crime against humanity.

Again - I will repeat (man it makes me angry). There was a show - Drugs Inc. I believe, where a man was interviewed, he was shown in the midst of a cluster headache hugging a cylinder of oxygen and moaning. He stated that he had promised his daughters that he would never take anything illegal even if it might releave him of his agony. Now, of course I blame his selfish daughters but I also blame a system where the very thought of the general population perhaps gaining a degree of enlightment and a concomitant immunity from propaganda, PR, and indoctrination will have a government enact draconian laws against drugs that have been shown time and again to have little if any deleterious effects either on the individual or the society as a whole. (except of course, that limited immunity from indoctrination)

 

[MrEDuck]

You guys should look up what Bill Wilson, one of the founders of AA, said about his experiences with LSD and his belief that it could be a very useful tool in helping alcoholics find recovery.

 

[rory420420]

John hopkins did a study years ago with psilocin..some subjects were given the real deal(the chemical,not shrooms),and others a placebo(ritalin if I remember correctly)..every last one of the subjects under the psilocin reported more positive thinking,drastic positive changes in habits and daily life,and a loss of fear in their life..I think this study was done in 1999..I'm not sure..but its not the first and hopefully not the last...
Somewhere there is a physician conducting his own research and documenting every last iota of information..and it will be irrefutable in anyones eyes as to the findings that are made..psychedelics will get humanity back on track...we all know this..