Colorado is preparing to launch psychedelic treatment for Veteran’s with PTSD
https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/generalpsychiatry/113619?xid=nl_mpt_Psychiatry_update_2025-01-08&mh=22c3cd8ebe0a923b5ca6e6e20f1222e0&zdee=gAAAAABm4uK279jdo8CafLOm4JPz0sgm8eROJ6H7GdfxGvH9_dh-e3vaHvPfFgfVvLTOrVxu7IzgOZjaDOo5SqXSuPk5o185gqPs7KYIv4wO-rjbk3ZgvV0%3D&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Automated%20Specialty%20Update%20Psychiatry%202025-01-08&utm_term=NL_Spec_Psychiatry_Update_Active
In the ongoing battle of “the right to try”, Colorado became the second state to approve the use of psilocybin and/or MDMA to treat primarily PTSD. The results are mixed, but for those it works for, it has been life changing.
After discussing the dangers of modern day THC yesterday, I am hopeful that the medical benefits of Psilocybin are allowed to be legally explored. HOWEVER……I don’t want it to become the Wild West of easy open access to buying it from a dispensary on every corner. I do believe this should be a treatment that is done under the supervision of a therapist or mental health professional to help guide the patient during their “experience”. I fear something that could be used for good will end up a mass produced product that becomes something negative and dangerous.
As with any type of treatment, there are people this is recommended for and those for whom it is not. I really want the right to try to be allowed……..but please keep this in a higher regulated zone to prevent this from becoming a weekend party drug and someone has a bad trip and leads to life altering consequences.
Why not try the most basic of all methods of spiritual healing that requires no pharmaceuticals? A person can be healed through religious practices. Shrooms can cause people to have negative feelings and experiences depending on the environment in which you take them. Religion is a totally positive energy force for those who have suffered hardships. Religion is also community based and not dependent upon one living person. Religion is free. You have to pay for the Shroom experience unless you pick them for yourself. The power to overcome negative experiences, feelings, and emotions depends upon developing your own innate faith. After all, it takes faith to get out of bed each morning. When you suffer from a lack of faith, you are stopped from believing in yourself and others. We all have faith to some degree. Even people with PTSD have some faith. To suffer from PTSD is to lose the power that comes through faith. Faith is to believe in yourself so that you can act on your own, without the need of an hallucinogenic substance.
Paging Dr. Leary... Does ANYONE remember the 1960s and/or 1970s? LSD was rampant. I can remember being offered "windowpane" in grade school. Several friends tried it and were never the same again. And not in a good way. Maybe it can help some people, but apply the lessons of the past. Remember when the anti-smoking crowd just wanted smoke free sections on airplanes? How did that turn out? Incrementalism is the tool of choice for tyrants everywhere now. It would be swell if "please keep this in a higher regulated zone to prevent this from becoming a weekend party drug" were possible. Do you think Big Pharma will pass on a chance to make tremendous profits from a chemical that is cheap and easy to synthesize? I'm not holding my breath. This will be available EVERYWHERE. Heck, with a marijuana dispensary on every street corner the sales network is already in place. I'm sure ordinances and laws with their accompanying regulations are ready to be introduced at every level of government from city counsel to the House of Representatives. I do feel sorry for those that this treatment would help. In the end, the burnt out remains of LSD users will be easy targets for those that want to kill us.