<story><title>Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results (2015)</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beepboopbeep</author><text>One of the worst things that comes from the banning of drugs is the stigma attached to it in order to give reason to ban it. That stigma just doesn&amp;#x27;t let go no matter what evidence is being presented.&lt;p&gt;Case in point are the incredible studies by the folks at Johns Hopkins on Psilocybin. They&amp;#x27;re not feeding people hallucinogenic mushrooms, they&amp;#x27;re giving them controlled doses of manufactured psilosybin. Incredible studies, very interesting in all ways, but the news headline is almost always some shitty pun or stupid jab about &amp;#x27;shrooms or &amp;quot;trippy&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;far out&amp;quot; which immediately demeans the research in the readers mind.&lt;p&gt;This usually continues through the text. The author will describe the study, effects, results, etc. then punctuate it with some dumb line about it being groovy. Makes it embarassing to be associated with the results when we could be looking at some truly breakthrough approaches to therapy and who knows what else.</text></comment>
<story><title>Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results (2015)</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>The more I read the more my belief is reinforced that the war on drugs has been a huge disservice to humanity in so many ways.&lt;p&gt;From the social problems caused by illegality and the restriction of decent pain relief for the dying to the brake put on valuable research like this.&lt;p&gt;All for what? Some sense of moral purity?&lt;p&gt;Humans societies fascinate and disgust me.</text></comment>