Hello,
I was crawling out of the woodwork to see what was going on here and this post got my attention. When I was much younger, early 20's, I used minute doses of LSD to self medicate depression. Now I know you are all going to jump on me for saying so, but it was very helpful. I took perhaps 1/10 or less of the psychedelic dose before bed and all that I felt was vivid dreaming. It bounced me out of severe suicidal depression quite reliably. Caveat: If I took the full dose, and I did a number of times, while depressed, it was like salting a wound - it was a hellish experience and very dangerous. My point is that is not always true the Phizer knows best. They are dabbling in chemistry just like Timothy Leary was. I ran my LSD experience by a psycho-pharmacist one time and he agreed that LSD in tiny doses could be therapeutic. I don't recall the pharmacology, but recall it was similar to what SSRIs do, but bigger and faster. I think a main factor behind many legitamacy psycho active drugs is that they are too easy to manufacture and therefore not profitable for drug manufacturers. Legality is absolutely not a sign of safety. Just a few years ago the so called major tranquilizers commonly used had a horrifying list of side effects, many permanent. Contrast them to what is known about smoking pot and you can easily see some striking contradictions in drug policy.

Bottom line, be careful with any chemical you put into your body regardless of the source. For several years I was on an antidepressant (name forgotten) that had an uncommon side effect of paresthesia. For me it was a neurotoxin and the effects of it mimicked multiple sclerosis. Not one doctor I saw about this ever made the connection and tentatively thought I had MS. I had to do my own research to discover this mostly unreported side effect. If I had continued to take the drug, as I was likely to do, I may have reached un-recovverable state of nerve damage. Do your homework and learn all you can about anything you ingest. Don't trust your doctor 100%, and don't trust the corner dealer either. In both cases their is reason to suspect their motives or those of the suppliers upstream from them to be money, not your health and happiness. And this goes for "food" as well as drugs.

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