LSD back in the official medicine

Psychedelic drug LSD in Switzerland back in medicine, the website Swiss.info. At the very least, health officials now allow physicians to conduct experiments with LSD in patients with critical stages of cancer and other deadly diseases. This is the first study in 35 years, the government has approved the therapeutic potential of the positive properties of LSD. Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD (in Soviet times was called LDK) is known for its hallucinogenic effects, but also a means to certain diseases in psychiatry combat (obsessions, addictions, etc.). Association for Psychedelic Studies contributed to this experiment 150 thousand U.S. dollars. Directs the research of Dr. Peter Gasser from the canton of Solothurn. "I am convinced that LSD be a good tool in psychotherapy, - he said -. Places people standing in the face of death, their anxiety, even panic you look at his life in search of spiritual meaning, and that LSD can help. " . January begins a three-month experiment: 12 patients doses of LSD, to give 200 mg or placebo. While hallucinations patients lie quietly and listen to music. The effects of the drug usually lasts about 8 hours. "My personal opinion is that once LSD is a drug like morphine, but only in the hands of trained professionals," - says Gasser. Former drug LSD in such experiments because of its ability to change, the feelings and perceptions of the human condition involved. But critics said that the negative effects of the so-called "bad trip" (meaning from the English. Bad Trip, in the vernacular negative trends of drug use). LSD can cause worsen the psychological state and depression or paranoia. In this case one of the LSD is most studied drug. Previous studies have shown that. LSD generally safe for therapeutic use Before it was banned in 1966, many doctors declared him a magic ball. Gasser said that his team is "very difficult" to achieve a resolution of the cantons of the Ethics Committee, and was on the federal level by the Health Department and other agencies. Head of the local cantonal ethics Elizabeth Grimm Bettig said that the main problem for them was that the use of LSD is in special situations: in the case of the dying. "You know that they live much longer, but the other question is how do we tell the patient about the benefits ... and also about the risks of taking the drug, we do not want them to be under our pressure. " - Says the writer. Despite the bureaucratic difficulties, Dr. Gasser concedes that are found "a liberal air" as in Switzerland, and so "impartial" committee on ethics seriously. By the way, opened the Swiss LSD Albert Hofmann, now 102 years old. Discovery he made by accident, in the 30s. He worked for a pharmaceutical company Sandoz in Basel. In an interview with the local media, he said that "happy as if he rehabilitates his problem child." Hoffman is almost no hope that LSD. Finally in the official medicine History of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), was Albert Hofmann, who has studied the possibility of the medical use of LSD in 1938. Psychotropic properties were not known until 1943, and researchers have easy access to LSD until 1966. In the years 1953-1954 were scientists from MI-6 (British intelligence) LSD to people without their knowledge and tried to establish a "truth serum." In 2006, employees of the MI-6 had paid thousands of pounds in compensation. In 1950-1965 years in studies of LSD and other hallucinogens has been over a thousand scientific papers, six international conferences, a drug as a medicine for more than 40 thousand patients prescribed written. In the late 1950s, film star Cary Grant was given LSD as medicine, treatment for disease, to which repeated marriages. In 1961 used a Harvard psychology professor Timothy Leary a university grant for an experiment in which more than 400 volunteers took 3,500 doses of LSD. In the subsequent survey 90% of the experiment, explained that they wanted to re-experience these feelings, and 62% felt that the experience has changed their lives for the better. In 1966, LSD was made illegal in the UK and in the late 1960s and was used to counter-culture, the spiritual and mystical revelations in prolonged hallucinations usually last 8-15 hours searched. The spread of LSD among the population came after he linked with prominent representatives of the counterculture, as Ken Kesey, the "acid test" performed, and Paul McCartney, who added in 1967 open in a television interview, the use of LSD was. Published in the compilation of the song Tomorrow Never Knows, in which interest becomes apparent drug Beatles, John Lennon met a lot of them in 1964, the book of Timothy Leary "The Psychedelic Experience." Was Roger "Syd" Barrett of Pink Floyd also made extensive use of LSD in the 1960s. In the late 1960s, the average dose was one-tenth of a grain, which is about 100-200 micrograms "mikam." It is believed that a day before the concert, The Doors 1966, Morrison 10 000 micrograms of LSD. According to the NHS, there is no evidence that LSD causes long-term damage to the body or mind. For possession of LSD, which refers to the drug category A, you can be sentenced to seven years in prison. Sale of LSD is punishable by penalties of up to life imprisonment and a fine of unlimited amounts.