The trouble with tripping on with MDMA (Ecstasy) - and LSD, to a lesser degree - is that we end-up: "stealing"
from our future chemical ability to feel happiness and well being - in order feel "super" happy and "super" alive, in the
present.
"Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy), popular on college campuses, has caused depression that lasts
months, and in animals, including primates, MDMA destroys CNS serotonergic nerve terminals."
from
http://www.jaids.com
University-Level Research
The Permanent Trip: A case of "post-hallucinogen perception disorder" by Paul
Genova, M.D.(Adapted from author, The Thaw: 24 Essays in Psychotherapy; Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing Co., 2000, pp. 17-19.)
(Special
thanks to Matt S. for sending this article):
<http://www.stormloader.com/hppd/klonopin.htm>
Article: "Ecstasy"-Induced Psychotic Depersonalization Syndrome, Nervenarzt:
<http://www.stormloader.com/hppd/xtcdp.htm>
Diversity Of Psychopathology Associated With Use Of 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
Institute of Psychiatry, London:
<http://www.stormloader.com/hppd/mdmax.htm>
From Our E-Mail Inbox And Private Discussion Board
LSD Judgement
(name withheld upon request)
Dear Steve,
You take a very hard stand against LSD and rave drugs.
You seem to imply that
people lose discernment after taking these drugs. You are implying permanent cognitive damage.
As a person who did his share of acid in the sixties, I resent the hell out of that. What basis do you have
for your judgmental assertions about LSD?
xxxx
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Hi xxxx,
I don't know if what I say is so, I can only report on what I have seen living with and around San Francisco
Bay Area acidheads for 30 years.
Additionally, our CIA used LSD as a psychological tool. It was used to (biologically) make the user less mentally
discerning and more susceptible to manipulative, multi-sensory hypnotic suggestion.
Rave drugs are very similar in lasting cognitive impact.
Please see our web page about the stormloader.com
LSD and rave drug public forums. Those are real people, xxxx with some very real psychic pain that they are at last being
open about.
Think about old hippies and rave kids swallowing mindless-guilt-infecting CNN sound and light "multimedia"
whole.
I can only report to you what has been documented scientifically. And about what I have seen for 30
years as a minor nordic character in the far left beachtown cartoon South Marin.
Steve
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Adam (From Our Private Discussion Board)
LSD Takes Trip Down Memory Lane at Age 60
From LSD's inventor, Albert Hoffman (now 98 years old):
"Unfortunately, increasing abuse of hallucinogenic
drugs is being noticed of late, especially among young people abroad," (he) said at the time, blaming sensational media reporting
that gave rise to "an unhealthy interest" in mind-bending drugs.
Hofmann always insisted LSD should remain administered only by researchers and psychiatrists because of the
danger that people high on the drug could unwittingly do themselves harm.
"The great danger of LSD is that one cannot come to grips with and integrate the shock of being transported
into a different reality, that one 'flips out'," he once recalled. ...
more
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=3&u=/nm/20030416/od_nm/lsd_dc <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=3&u=/nm/20030416/od_nm/lsd_dc>
Adam
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Is LSD Cognitive Damage Permanent?
Beth Anne Napa Valley, CA
Hi Beth Anne,
I don't think so.
A friend who recently retired from a career as a highly successful professional is living testament to the
fact that cognitive damage from light LSD use may not be permanent.
He did (some) acid in the 1960's.
You simply cannot successfully negotiate the professional, highly-boundaried and intricately diplomatic social
matrix of the corporate executive world, if your powers of cognitive discernment are markedly impaired.
A key
here, though, may be the amount of LSD ingested and the time elapsed since one's last LSD experience.
It is my sense,
and that of others on our private discussion board, that there must be some kind of synapse sheath-healing that occurs over
time.
On the other hand; there are heart-wrenching characters like a fellow that all the older locals in my home
town, Mill Valley, CA have known about for years.
As far as I know, he just keeps ingesting the stuff (along with synthetic rave drugs that are now medically
acknowledged to have lasting biological effects, similar to LSD -- and spinal / whole nervous system impact).
Large amounts of either drug family, are now medically acknowledged to permanently damage the brain, nervous
system and cognitive ability.
And this is important: frequent (psychologically addicted) use of even small amounts will leave the brain
no time to heal protective synapse sheaths that LSD and the newer pharmacopoeia of synthetic rave drugs are now known to directly
erode.
When one sticks to what is traditional, known and grows from the ground, in the dosage that a given unfractionated
plant portion presents, you just don't see these horrific lasting cognitive problems.
Perhaps some 'cleansing' vomiting, but not the heart-wrenching stories now easily found on the stormloader.com
message forums, and elsewhere.
The synthetic manufacture of hallucinogenic drugs is largely careless-greed-driven and therefore quite 'roulette'
dangerous.
We are now 60 years beyond Albert Hoffman's famous bicycle trip. How much more plain can the evidence for
a spiritually needless (grave) cognitive hazard be?
Steve
