LSD Has Arrived! MAPS News March 2008

[Caduceus Mercurius]

MAPS is jumping with exciting news. Heres a sample of what's going
on:

1. LSD Ready for Swiss Study; First Subject has been Enrolled
2. Report on Craker Senate Lobby Campaign And What YOU Can Do to
Help!
3. Psychologists and Psychiatrists Wanted for Psychedelic
Emergency Work at Boom Festival
4. Two Volunteers Needed for MAPS Table at Conference on
Clinical Research with Marijuana
5. New MDMA/PTSD Study Planned for Canada
6. Swiss LSD Protocol Submitted to FDA For Review
7. Second Session Completed in MDMA/Cancer-Anxiety
8. Stealing Time by Sue Stevens, Book about MDMA-Therapy and
confronting Cancer Diagnosis
9. New Edition of Stanislav Grofs LSD Psychotherapy Available
March 31
10. MAPS Launches Direct Mail Campaign to MPP Members
11. MAPS Receives $246,000 Unexpected Donations
12. MAPS Receives Pledge of $34,437 for Year-End Matching Grant
13. Goodbye (Sort of) from Troy Dayton, MAPS Director of
Development
14. Introducing Jalene Otto MAPS New Membership and Sales
Coordinator
15. MAPS At World Psychedelic Forum Next Week


1. LSD Ready for Swiss Study; First Subject Has Been Enrolled

The LSD that will be used in Peter Gassers Swiss LSD/end-of-life anxiety study arrived on February 26th. The first subject has completed the screening process and has been enrolled into the study. The first dose will probably be administered sometime in the next month. This LSD psychotherapy study is fully approved, and the LSD has been analyzed for purity, encapsulated, and is ready to be administered. When this first dose of LSD is administered another historic landmark worthy of celebration will have been achieved--what will become the first LSD psychotherapy study in over thirty-five years.

Read the entire text in the new Azarius blog.

 

[yourownworld]

yeah

may common people know what they think good about my favourite drug

 

[Brugmansia]

At the Basel conference a few die hards got donated with original Sandoz liquid. Vials that were produced at the very first beginning.

Nowadays Sandoz has no connection anymore with the substance LSD, although the CEO of Novartis held a speech for Hofmann at his 100th birthday.

Hofmann admitted that untill 1962 is was very succesfully used in psychotherapy, he is frustrated by the fact that his child got hijacked by Timothy Leary and he predicted from the very first beginning that spreading it worldwide in an impulsive way would led to a worldwide misinterpretation of the substance and it's possibility to contribute to psychotheraphy. Since it is now banned.

The way LSD is presented in the Hofmann potion is exactly my thought about LSD. I believe it can cure any mental trauma if it is done stricly under regulation and accompanied by professionals. As well as enlight every human mind.

This is good news. May it replace the entire image and function of LSD for what it is nowadays known.

 

[emix]

It's good to see that they've finally started to examine this interesting substance for psycho-therapy in an objective and non-prejudice way.

Hooray for science.