Drugs

[PsychoCharlie]

i do owt but smack.
i fuckin hate smackheads, i wanna batter em. fuckin scum.

 

[alana]

I can understand why you would be skeptical of a hallucinogenic. Especially considering that ayahausca and its main compound DMT are class A restricted drugs in most of europe, australia.. the USA. But there are allot of credible studies that suggest its definite abilities to heal people on a psychological level. The most certain being that ayahuascas other main compound is a MAOI which is an SSRI. SSRI's are what are in anti depressants. One study found that instead of damaging seratonin receptors which is what drugs such as prozac do.. the MAOI in ayahuasca actually restores damaged seratonin receptors.

My personal experience was that i went to south america 13 months ago out of deperation because i couldnt finish my course and it had been my second drop out due to social anxiety. its been 13 months later and i finished my course.. Not only that i managed to stay in a job working with people constantly for 9 months..

Now i have drunken alcohol within the past 3 weeks and it has absolutely hurt me tremendously in my ability to have some upper hand over my anxiety.

Here is an excerpt from the article about Dr. Charles Grob's landmark findings[15]:

The taking of ayahuasca has been associated with a long list of documented cures: the disappearance of everything from metastasized colorectal cancer to cocaine addiction, even after just a ceremony or two. It has been medically proven to be nonaddictive and safe to ingest. Yet Western scientists have all but ignored it for decades, reluctant to risk their careers by researching a substance containing the outlawed DMT. Only in the past decade, and then only by a handful of researchers, has ayahuasca begun to be studied. At the vanguard of this research is Charles Grob, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at UCLA’s School of Medicine.
In 1993 Dr. Grob directed the Hoasca Project, the first in-depth study of the physical and psychological effects of ayahuasca on humans. He and his team went to Brazil, where the plant mixture can be taken legally, to study members of a church, the União do Vegetal (UDV), who use ayahuasca as a sacrament, and compared them to a control group that had never ingested the substance. The studies found that all the ayahuasca-using UDV members had experienced remission without recurrence of their addictions, depression, or anxiety disorders. Unlike most common anti-depressants, which Grob says can create such high levels of serotonin that cells may actually compensate by losing many of their serotonin receptors, the Hoasca Project showed that ayahuasca strongly enhances the body’s ability to absorb the serotonin that’s naturally there [4]. 'Ayahuasca is perhaps a far more sophisticated and effective way to treat depression than SSRIs [antidepressant drugs],' Grob concludes, adding that the use of SSRIs is 'a rather crude way' of doing it. And ayahuasca, he insists, has great potential as a long-term solution in maintaining abstinence.

anyway im going back next month

 

[RanjinSingh]

I've printed out a copy of the previous post, as I think it'll help me with my crack-induced bouts of insomnia.

Thanks alana. Thalana.