🌐 Table of contents and part one: https://primal.net/e/note1gpp6krhewvw39pme6jgx47wep5hyv4mvk63006th4xn5wf5mlk5qvh2x3v

❌🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸❌

🗺️ Homo sapiens have consumed psilocybin mushrooms for as long as known history can be traced.  However, it was not until 1958 that the chemist Albert Hoffman isolated psilocybin from plaques.

⚗️ The same scientist synthesized LSD in 1938, but only five years later discovered its psychedelic properties.

🌈 Accidentally, a small amount of the substance must have been absorbed into his body when he remembered the vial marked LSD-25 that had been standing on the shelf for half a decade.  This substance is active in micrograms, i.e. millionths of a gram.  Therefore, even an amount of psychedelic substance invisible to the naked eye on the finger, which the researcher then touched to his mouth or eyes, was enough.

💫 He experienced the world's first "acid trip", thinking that his soul was taken over by demons.  He returned home on his bicycle, where he was examined by a doctor who said there was nothing wrong with him.  Then Albert Hoffman began to notice the beauty of the world around him as if he were seeing it for the first time.  In his later years, he referred to LSD as his difficult child.  He died in 2008, at the age of 102.

🚲 His bicycle journey became a symbol of LSD, and the most popular image on blotters with this substance is the "woman on a bicycle" referring to this story, visible in the photo in the first part of the entry.  The anniversary of this event, April 19, is considered LSD Day.  Interestingly, a day later hemp is 4/20.

📅 In the middle of the last century, the flowering of psychedelic culture began.  Everyone knew what "acid" was, everyone had tried it or at least knew someone who had tried it.  The new counterculture was growing at an astonishing pace.

🔎 They were initially called "psychozomimetics," and psychiatrists took them to try to understand their patients with schizophrenia.  However, it quickly turned out that psychedelia has as much in common with psychoses as a guinea pig has in common with a pig and the sea.  It was then that the name still used today was coined, meaning something that opens the mind.

☑️ Already back then, psychedelics were successfully used to treat depression, PTSD, alcoholism and gambling addiction.  Much of the research did not meet today's EBM requirements, but it became clear to thousands of researchers around the world - it works!

🎭 Set and settings turned out to be crucial - patients left to their own devices showed no improvement or experienced a "bad phase".  Specialist care, good music, surroundings, intention and other environmental variables were an essential element of the therapy.  Unfortunately, many researchers did not understand this or did not want to understand it, which is why the progress of scientific work and experiments was not as good as it should have been.

✔️ Despite this, tens of millions of people around the world took psychedelics on their own, often just to have fun or for other private reasons.  No one was dying and the world was moving forward.  Humanity was once again using the substance that, together with "magic mushrooms", was consumed by the first intelligent people on our planet.

☮️ Psychedelics made people not want to serve in the army, they were not susceptible to government propaganda, they wanted peace and justice.  Love, tolerance and good fun have become the leitmotif of a huge part of society.

🆓 LSD cost about a dollar per dose, but in practice it was no problem to get the substance for free.  Sharing psychedelics and mass parties were commonplace.

🏛️ The authorities didn't like how disobedient psychedelic users were.  After all, citizens could not be free, smiling and independent, they could not question propaganda and the sense of waging war.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

🇨🇦 The same is happening in Canada, including: last year, one province allowed the trade, possession and therapeutic use of psilocybin, mescaline, ketamine, LSD, MDMA and DMT.

🇦🇺 Australia this year legalized the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA and psilocybin.

🗺️ Let's keep our fingers crossed that when all this hell around us ends, in the new world we will be able to decide what to treat ourselves and no one will forbid us from effective therapy!

🌐 Table of contents and part one: https://primal.net/e/note1gpp6krhewvw39pme6jgx47wep5hyv4mvk63006th4xn5wf5mlk5qvh2x3v

❌🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸❌

🗺️ Homo sapiens have consumed psilocybin mushrooms for as long as known history can be traced.  However, it was not until 1958 that the chemist Albert Hoffman isolated psilocybin from plaques.

⚗️ The same scientist synthesized LSD in 1938, but only five years later discovered its psychedelic properties.

🌈 Accidentally, a small amount of the substance must have been absorbed into his body when he remembered the vial marked LSD-25 that had been standing on the shelf for half a decade.  This substance is active in micrograms, i.e. millionths of a gram.  Therefore, even an amount of psychedelic substance invisible to the naked eye on the finger, which the researcher then touched to his mouth or eyes, was enough.

💫 He experienced the world's first "acid trip", thinking that his soul was taken over by demons.  He returned home on his bicycle, where he was examined by a doctor who said there was nothing wrong with him.  Then Albert Hoffman began to notice the beauty of the world around him as if he were seeing it for the first time.  In his later years, he referred to LSD as his difficult child.  He died in 2008, at the age of 102.

🚲 His bicycle journey became a symbol of LSD, and the most popular image on blotters with this substance is the "woman on a bicycle" referring to this story, visible in the photo in the first part of the entry.  The anniversary of this event, April 19, is considered LSD Day.  Interestingly, a day later hemp is 4/20.

📅 In the middle of the last century, the flowering of psychedelic culture began.  Everyone knew what "acid" was, everyone had tried it or at least knew someone who had tried it.  The new counterculture was growing at an astonishing pace.

🔎 They were initially called "psychozomimetics," and psychiatrists took them to try to understand their patients with schizophrenia.  However, it quickly turned out that psychedelia has as much in common with psychoses as a guinea pig has in common with a pig and the sea.  It was then that the name still used today was coined, meaning something that opens the mind.

☑️ Already back then, psychedelics were successfully used to treat depression, PTSD, alcoholism and gambling addiction.  Much of the research did not meet today's EBM requirements, but it became clear to thousands of researchers around the world - it works!

🎭 Set and settings turned out to be crucial - patients left to their own devices showed no improvement or experienced a "bad phase".  Specialist care, good music, surroundings, intention and other environmental variables were an essential element of the therapy.  Unfortunately, many researchers did not understand this or did not want to understand it, which is why the progress of scientific work and experiments was not as good as it should have been.

✔️ Despite this, tens of millions of people around the world took psychedelics on their own, often just to have fun or for other private reasons.  No one was dying and the world was moving forward.  Humanity was once again using the substance that, together with "magic mushrooms", was consumed by the first intelligent people on our planet.

☮️ Psychedelics made people not want to serve in the army, they were not susceptible to government propaganda, they wanted peace and justice.  Love, tolerance and good fun have become the leitmotif of a huge part of society.

🆓 LSD cost about a dollar per dose, but in practice it was no problem to get the substance for free.  Sharing psychedelics and mass parties were commonplace.

🏛️ The authorities didn't like how disobedient psychedelic users were.  After all, citizens could not be free, smiling and independent, they could not question propaganda and the sense of waging war.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

🇨🇦 The same is happening in Canada, including: last year, one province allowed the trade, possession and therapeutic use of psilocybin, mescaline, ketamine, LSD, MDMA and DMT.

🇦🇺 Australia this year legalized the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA and psilocybin.

🗺️ Let's keep our fingers crossed that when all this hell around us ends, in the new world we will be able to decide what to treat ourselves and no one will forbid us from effective therapy!

🌐 Table of contents and part one: https://primal.net/e/note1gpp6krhewvw39pme6jgx47wep5hyv4mvk63006th4xn5wf5mlk5qvh2x3v

❌🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸❌

🗺️ Homo sapiens have consumed psilocybin mushrooms for as long as known history can be traced.  However, it was not until 1958 that the chemist Albert Hoffman isolated psilocybin from plaques.

⚗️ The same scientist synthesized LSD in 1938, but only five years later discovered its psychedelic properties.

🌈 Accidentally, a small amount of the substance must have been absorbed into his body when he remembered the vial marked LSD-25 that had been standing on the shelf for half a decade.  This substance is active in micrograms, i.e. millionths of a gram.  Therefore, even an amount of psychedelic substance invisible to the naked eye on the finger, which the researcher then touched to his mouth or eyes, was enough.

💫 He experienced the world's first "acid trip", thinking that his soul was taken over by demons.  He returned home on his bicycle, where he was examined by a doctor who said there was nothing wrong with him.  Then Albert Hoffman began to notice the beauty of the world around him as if he were seeing it for the first time.  In his later years, he referred to LSD as his difficult child.  He died in 2008, at the age of 102.

🚲 His bicycle journey became a symbol of LSD, and the most popular image on blotters with this substance is the "woman on a bicycle" referring to this story, visible in the photo in the first part of the entry.  The anniversary of this event, April 19, is considered LSD Day.  Interestingly, a day later hemp is 4/20.

📅 In the middle of the last century, the flowering of psychedelic culture began.  Everyone knew what "acid" was, everyone had tried it or at least knew someone who had tried it.  The new counterculture was growing at an astonishing pace.

🔎 They were initially called "psychozomimetics," and psychiatrists took them to try to understand their patients with schizophrenia.  However, it quickly turned out that psychedelia has as much in common with psychoses as a guinea pig has in common with a pig and the sea.  It was then that the name still used today was coined, meaning something that opens the mind.

☑️ Already back then, psychedelics were successfully used to treat depression, PTSD, alcoholism and gambling addiction.  Much of the research did not meet today's EBM requirements, but it became clear to thousands of researchers around the world - it works!

🎭 Set and settings turned out to be crucial - patients left to their own devices showed no improvement or experienced a "bad phase".  Specialist care, good music, surroundings, intention and other environmental variables were an essential element of the therapy.  Unfortunately, many researchers did not understand this or did not want to understand it, which is why the progress of scientific work and experiments was not as good as it should have been.

✔️ Despite this, tens of millions of people around the world took psychedelics on their own, often just to have fun or for other private reasons.  No one was dying and the world was moving forward.  Humanity was once again using the substance that, together with "magic mushrooms", was consumed by the first intelligent people on our planet.

☮️ Psychedelics made people not want to serve in the army, they were not susceptible to government propaganda, they wanted peace and justice.  Love, tolerance and good fun have become the leitmotif of a huge part of society.

🆓 LSD cost about a dollar per dose, but in practice it was no problem to get the substance for free.  Sharing psychedelics and mass parties were commonplace.

🏛️ The authorities didn't like how disobedient psychedelic users were.  After all, citizens could not be free, smiling and independent, they could not question propaganda and the sense of waging war.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

🇨🇦 The same is happening in Canada, including: last year, one province allowed the trade, possession and therapeutic use of psilocybin, mescaline, ketamine, LSD, MDMA and DMT.

🇦🇺 Australia this year legalized the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA and psilocybin.

🗺️ Let's keep our fingers crossed that when all this hell around us ends, in the new world we will be able to decide what to treat ourselves and no one will forbid us from effective therapy!

🌐 Table of contents and part one: https://primal.net/e/note1gpp6krhewvw39pme6jgx47wep5hyv4mvk63006th4xn5wf5mlk5qvh2x3v

❌🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸❌

🗺️ Homo sapiens have consumed psilocybin mushrooms for as long as known history can be traced.  However, it was not until 1958 that the chemist Albert Hoffman isolated psilocybin from plaques.

⚗️ The same scientist synthesized LSD in 1938, but only five years later discovered its psychedelic properties.

🌈 Accidentally, a small amount of the substance must have been absorbed into his body when he remembered the vial marked LSD-25 that had been standing on the shelf for half a decade.  This substance is active in micrograms, i.e. millionths of a gram.  Therefore, even an amount of psychedelic substance invisible to the naked eye on the finger, which the researcher then touched to his mouth or eyes, was enough.

💫 He experienced the world's first "acid trip", thinking that his soul was taken over by demons.  He returned home on his bicycle, where he was examined by a doctor who said there was nothing wrong with him.  Then Albert Hoffman began to notice the beauty of the world around him as if he were seeing it for the first time.  In his later years, he referred to LSD as his difficult child.  He died in 2008, at the age of 102.

🚲 His bicycle journey became a symbol of LSD, and the most popular image on blotters with this substance is the "woman on a bicycle" referring to this story, visible in the photo in the first part of the entry.  The anniversary of this event, April 19, is considered LSD Day.  Interestingly, a day later hemp is 4/20.

📅 In the middle of the last century, the flowering of psychedelic culture began.  Everyone knew what "acid" was, everyone had tried it or at least knew someone who had tried it.  The new counterculture was growing at an astonishing pace.

🔎 They were initially called "psychozomimetics," and psychiatrists took them to try to understand their patients with schizophrenia.  However, it quickly turned out that psychedelia has as much in common with psychoses as a guinea pig has in common with a pig and the sea.  It was then that the name still used today was coined, meaning something that opens the mind.

☑️ Already back then, psychedelics were successfully used to treat depression, PTSD, alcoholism and gambling addiction.  Much of the research did not meet today's EBM requirements, but it became clear to thousands of researchers around the world - it works!

🎭 Set and settings turned out to be crucial - patients left to their own devices showed no improvement or experienced a "bad phase".  Specialist care, good music, surroundings, intention and other environmental variables were an essential element of the therapy.  Unfortunately, many researchers did not understand this or did not want to understand it, which is why the progress of scientific work and experiments was not as good as it should have been.

✔️ Despite this, tens of millions of people around the world took psychedelics on their own, often just to have fun or for other private reasons.  No one was dying and the world was moving forward.  Humanity was once again using the substance that, together with "magic mushrooms", was consumed by the first intelligent people on our planet.

☮️ Psychedelics made people not want to serve in the army, they were not susceptible to government propaganda, they wanted peace and justice.  Love, tolerance and good fun have become the leitmotif of a huge part of society.

🆓 LSD cost about a dollar per dose, but in practice it was no problem to get the substance for free.  Sharing psychedelics and mass parties were commonplace.

🏛️ The authorities didn't like how disobedient psychedelic users were.  After all, citizens could not be free, smiling and independent, they could not question propaganda and the sense of waging war.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

🇨🇦 The same is happening in Canada, including: last year, one province allowed the trade, possession and therapeutic use of psilocybin, mescaline, ketamine, LSD, MDMA and DMT.

🇦🇺 Australia this year legalized the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA and psilocybin.

🗺️ Let's keep our fingers crossed that when all this hell around us ends, in the new world we will be able to decide what to treat ourselves and no one will forbid us from effective therapy!

🌐 Table of contents and part one: https://primal.net/e/note1gpp6krhewvw39pme6jgx47wep5hyv4mvk63006th4xn5wf5mlk5qvh2x3v

❌🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸❌

🗺️ Homo sapiens have consumed psilocybin mushrooms for as long as known history can be traced.  However, it was not until 1958 that the chemist Albert Hoffman isolated psilocybin from plaques.

⚗️ The same scientist synthesized LSD in 1938, but only five years later discovered its psychedelic properties.

🌈 Accidentally, a small amount of the substance must have been absorbed into his body when he remembered the vial marked LSD-25 that had been standing on the shelf for half a decade.  This substance is active in micrograms, i.e. millionths of a gram.  Therefore, even an amount of psychedelic substance invisible to the naked eye on the finger, which the researcher then touched to his mouth or eyes, was enough.

💫 He experienced the world's first "acid trip", thinking that his soul was taken over by demons.  He returned home on his bicycle, where he was examined by a doctor who said there was nothing wrong with him.  Then Albert Hoffman began to notice the beauty of the world around him as if he were seeing it for the first time.  In his later years, he referred to LSD as his difficult child.  He died in 2008, at the age of 102.

🚲 His bicycle journey became a symbol of LSD, and the most popular image on blotters with this substance is the "woman on a bicycle" referring to this story, visible in the photo in the first part of the entry.  The anniversary of this event, April 19, is considered LSD Day.  Interestingly, a day later hemp is 4/20.

📅 In the middle of the last century, the flowering of psychedelic culture began.  Everyone knew what "acid" was, everyone had tried it or at least knew someone who had tried it.  The new counterculture was growing at an astonishing pace.

🔎 They were initially called "psychozomimetics," and psychiatrists took them to try to understand their patients with schizophrenia.  However, it quickly turned out that psychedelia has as much in common with psychoses as a guinea pig has in common with a pig and the sea.  It was then that the name still used today was coined, meaning something that opens the mind.

☑️ Already back then, psychedelics were successfully used to treat depression, PTSD, alcoholism and gambling addiction.  Much of the research did not meet today's EBM requirements, but it became clear to thousands of researchers around the world - it works!

🎭 Set and settings turned out to be crucial - patients left to their own devices showed no improvement or experienced a "bad phase".  Specialist care, good music, surroundings, intention and other environmental variables were an essential element of the therapy.  Unfortunately, many researchers did not understand this or did not want to understand it, which is why the progress of scientific work and experiments was not as good as it should have been.

✔️ Despite this, tens of millions of people around the world took psychedelics on their own, often just to have fun or for other private reasons.  No one was dying and the world was moving forward.  Humanity was once again using the substance that, together with "magic mushrooms", was consumed by the first intelligent people on our planet.

☮️ Psychedelics made people not want to serve in the army, they were not susceptible to government propaganda, they wanted peace and justice.  Love, tolerance and good fun have become the leitmotif of a huge part of society.

🆓 LSD cost about a dollar per dose, but in practice it was no problem to get the substance for free.  Sharing psychedelics and mass parties were commonplace.

🏛️ The authorities didn't like how disobedient psychedelic users were.  After all, citizens could not be free, smiling and independent, they could not question propaganda and the sense of waging war.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

🇨🇦 The same is happening in Canada, including: last year, one province allowed the trade, possession and therapeutic use of psilocybin, mescaline, ketamine, LSD, MDMA and DMT.

🇦🇺 Australia this year legalized the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA and psilocybin.

🗺️ Let's keep our fingers crossed that when all this hell around us ends, in the new world we will be able to decide what to treat ourselves and no one will forbid us from effective therapy!

🌐 Table of contents and part one: https://primal.net/e/note1gpp6krhewvw39pme6jgx47wep5hyv4mvk63006th4xn5wf5mlk5qvh2x3v

❌🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸💠🔸🔸❌

🗺️ Homo sapiens have consumed psilocybin mushrooms for as long as known history can be traced.  However, it was not until 1958 that the chemist Albert Hoffman isolated psilocybin from plaques.

⚗️ The same scientist synthesized LSD in 1938, but only five years later discovered its psychedelic properties.

🌈 Accidentally, a small amount of the substance must have been absorbed into his body when he remembered the vial marked LSD-25 that had been standing on the shelf for half a decade.  This substance is active in micrograms, i.e. millionths of a gram.  Therefore, even an amount of psychedelic substance invisible to the naked eye on the finger, which the researcher then touched to his mouth or eyes, was enough.

💫 He experienced the world's first "acid trip", thinking that his soul was taken over by demons.  He returned home on his bicycle, where he was examined by a doctor who said there was nothing wrong with him.  Then Albert Hoffman began to notice the beauty of the world around him as if he were seeing it for the first time.  In his later years, he referred to LSD as his difficult child.  He died in 2008, at the age of 102.

🚲 His bicycle journey became a symbol of LSD, and the most popular image on blotters with this substance is the "woman on a bicycle" referring to this story, visible in the photo in the first part of the entry.  The anniversary of this event, April 19, is considered LSD Day.  Interestingly, a day later hemp is 4/20.

📅 In the middle of the last century, the flowering of psychedelic culture began.  Everyone knew what "acid" was, everyone had tried it or at least knew someone who had tried it.  The new counterculture was growing at an astonishing pace.

🔎 They were initially called "psychozomimetics," and psychiatrists took them to try to understand their patients with schizophrenia.  However, it quickly turned out that psychedelia has as much in common with psychoses as a guinea pig has in common with a pig and the sea.  It was then that the name still used today was coined, meaning something that opens the mind.

☑️ Already back then, psychedelics were successfully used to treat depression, PTSD, alcoholism and gambling addiction.  Much of the research did not meet today's EBM requirements, but it became clear to thousands of researchers around the world - it works!

🎭 Set and settings turned out to be crucial - patients left to their own devices showed no improvement or experienced a "bad phase".  Specialist care, good music, surroundings, intention and other environmental variables were an essential element of the therapy.  Unfortunately, many researchers did not understand this or did not want to understand it, which is why the progress of scientific work and experiments was not as good as it should have been.

✔️ Despite this, tens of millions of people around the world took psychedelics on their own, often just to have fun or for other private reasons.  No one was dying and the world was moving forward.  Humanity was once again using the substance that, together with "magic mushrooms", was consumed by the first intelligent people on our planet.

☮️ Psychedelics made people not want to serve in the army, they were not susceptible to government propaganda, they wanted peace and justice.  Love, tolerance and good fun have become the leitmotif of a huge part of society.

🆓 LSD cost about a dollar per dose, but in practice it was no problem to get the substance for free.  Sharing psychedelics and mass parties were commonplace.

🏛️ The authorities didn't like how disobedient psychedelic users were.  After all, citizens could not be free, smiling and independent, they could not question propaganda and the sense of waging war.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

🇨🇦 The same is happening in Canada, including: last year, one province allowed the trade, possession and therapeutic use of psilocybin, mescaline, ketamine, LSD, MDMA and DMT.

🇦🇺 Australia this year legalized the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA and psilocybin.

🗺️ Let's keep our fingers crossed that when all this hell around us ends, in the new world we will be able to decide what to treat ourselves and no one will forbid us from effective therapy!

🌐 Table of contents and part one: https://primal.net/e/note1gpp6krhewvw39pme6jgx47wep5hyv4mvk63006th4xn5wf5mlk5qvh2x3v

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🗺️ Homo sapiens have consumed psilocybin mushrooms for as long as known history can be traced.  However, it was not until 1958 that the chemist Albert Hoffman isolated psilocybin from plaques.

⚗️ The same scientist synthesized LSD in 1938, but only five years later discovered its psychedelic properties.

🌈 Accidentally, a small amount of the substance must have been absorbed into his body when he remembered the vial marked LSD-25 that had been standing on the shelf for half a decade.  This substance is active in micrograms, i.e. millionths of a gram.  Therefore, even an amount of psychedelic substance invisible to the naked eye on the finger, which the researcher then touched to his mouth or eyes, was enough.

💫 He experienced the world's first "acid trip", thinking that his soul was taken over by demons.  He returned home on his bicycle, where he was examined by a doctor who said there was nothing wrong with him.  Then Albert Hoffman began to notice the beauty of the world around him as if he were seeing it for the first time.  In his later years, he referred to LSD as his difficult child.  He died in 2008, at the age of 102.

🚲 His bicycle journey became a symbol of LSD, and the most popular image on blotters with this substance is the "woman on a bicycle" referring to this story, visible in the photo in the first part of the entry.  The anniversary of this event, April 19, is considered LSD Day.  Interestingly, a day later hemp is 4/20.

📅 In the middle of the last century, the flowering of psychedelic culture began.  Everyone knew what "acid" was, everyone had tried it or at least knew someone who had tried it.  The new counterculture was growing at an astonishing pace.

🔎 They were initially called "psychozomimetics," and psychiatrists took them to try to understand their patients with schizophrenia.  However, it quickly turned out that psychedelia has as much in common with psychoses as a guinea pig has in common with a pig and the sea.  It was then that the name still used today was coined, meaning something that opens the mind.

☑️ Already back then, psychedelics were successfully used to treat depression, PTSD, alcoholism and gambling addiction.  Much of the research did not meet today's EBM requirements, but it became clear to thousands of researchers around the world - it works!

🎭 Set and settings turned out to be crucial - patients left to their own devices showed no improvement or experienced a "bad phase".  Specialist care, good music, surroundings, intention and other environmental variables were an essential element of the therapy.  Unfortunately, many researchers did not understand this or did not want to understand it, which is why the progress of scientific work and experiments was not as good as it should have been.

✔️ Despite this, tens of millions of people around the world took psychedelics on their own, often just to have fun or for other private reasons.  No one was dying and the world was moving forward.  Humanity was once again using the substance that, together with "magic mushrooms", was consumed by the first intelligent people on our planet.

☮️ Psychedelics made people not want to serve in the army, they were not susceptible to government propaganda, they wanted peace and justice.  Love, tolerance and good fun have become the leitmotif of a huge part of society.

🆓 LSD cost about a dollar per dose, but in practice it was no problem to get the substance for free.  Sharing psychedelics and mass parties were commonplace.

🏛️ The authorities didn't like how disobedient psychedelic users were.  After all, citizens could not be free, smiling and independent, they could not question propaganda and the sense of waging war.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

💊 At the same time, growing pharmaceutical companies sensed the threat, because if they managed to conduct more research on psychedelics and develop an ideal therapy model, their psychiatric drugs might no longer be sold.

⛈️ Finally, the disinformation campaign has started.  All of America listened to lies on TV that LSD caused holes in the brain, destroyed DNA, put babies in the oven, and other nonsense.  Unfortunately, some of these myths have survived in people's minds to this day and are still repeated.

📺 Society finally started to believe the pulp presented in the mainstream media.  The scale of manipulation and playing on emotions meant that people themselves began to pressure the government to do something about it.  Sounds familiar..?

⛔ LSD was banned in the US in 1966, and two years later psilocybin suffered the same fate.  Soon after, the rest of the world did the same, pushing psychedelics underground for half a century.  Many other psychedelic substances remained legal, but these substitutes, banned for decades, were no longer as effective, safe and cheap to produce.

⚖️ Psychedelics have been classified as group I-P substances, i.e. without any medical use and with a high potential for abuse.  Of course, it was politically motivated and had no reflection in reality.

😤 Even further research was banned, despite the opposition of scientists and voices that these substances should become permanent in medicine.  Any leftovers from the laboratories were confiscated, and propaganda was in full swing.  Many researchers went underground and conducted therapies in secret over the next decades.

❌ The injustice here was glaring, as extremely toxic and addictive drugs such as morphine and amphetamines were, of course, still prescribed.  Patients all over the world are still addicted to them.  Until now, toxic compounds are sold as safe drugs, causing many side effects.  As you can see, nothing has changed...

📅 Only several dozen years later, in the 21st century, research on psychedelics was resumed.  For about a decade, the science of psychedelics has been flourishing again, and people are becoming more aware of how important this issue is.

🔒 Of course, the resistance is still huge, and education in the field of psychoactive substances is still limping.  Lectures at schools are full of superstitions and stereotypes, and people are reluctant to learn.

📚 Fortunately, in addition to new research with low financing, the topic also appears on the Internet and in bookstores.  The big breakthrough was Michael Pollan's book entitled  "How to change your mind", which I wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.  I guarantee that you will not regret the purchase, and after reading the whole thing you will also encourage others.

💰 Unfortunately, even when governments allow "experimental" therapies, the costs reach up to 500 times higher amounts than street dealers ask for a given substance.  What's worse, pharmaceutical companies are trying to appropriate the patents for these drugs, which is impossible, they patent the method of conducting the therapy...

👥 It's up to us how long people will associate classic psychedelics with holes in the brain, jumping out of windows, killing children or DNA damage.  Their correct medical use does not pose any threat, and the positive effects of such therapy change the world and people for the better.  It is worth talking about it, it is worth spreading this knowledge.

🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸💠🔸🔸🔸

🇵🇱 Unfortunately, Poland has only just reached the stage of legalizing medical marijuana.  I'm afraid that our nation may not be able to wait for free access to psychedelics... Well, people buy them on the black market anyway, so it's the patients who suffer the most, as usual.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands is the closest country to us where you can legally buy various psychedelics in stationary stores - including:  psilocybin, DMT, LSA, or sage.

🇨🇦 The same is happening in Canada, including: last year, one province allowed the trade, possession and therapeutic use of psilocybin, mescaline, ketamine, LSD, MDMA and DMT.

🇦🇺 Australia this year legalized the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA and psilocybin.

🗺️ Let's keep our fingers crossed that when all this hell around us ends, in the new world we will be able to decide what to treat ourselves and no one will forbid us from effective therapy!

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