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Human LSD Research to begin in San Francisco
Good news from the Beckley Foundation!

We have at last obtained the final permissions to start the Beckley Foundation/University of California LSD Project in San Francisco. This will be the first study using LSD on human subjects since prohibition blocked all such scientific research in the 1970s. Since then, great advances have been made in neuroscience and brain-imaging techniques. The study will explore why LSD causes such profound changes in consciousness, and how it affects creativity and problem-solving.

We hope that this first study will open the door to a wider exploration of the neural processes underlying consciousness and show how LSD might be a useful tool in neuroscience, in psychotherapy, in personal development and for enhancing creativity.

Another exciting development is the recent publication in the Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, of a paper by Professors Colin Blakemore, David Nutt and others, calling for the reclassification of drugs of potential misuse according to a rational scale of harm. This new scale would be regularly revised as scientific understanding advances, and would also include such legal drugs as alcohol and tobacco (which account for about 90% of all drug-related deaths in the UK). The thinking behind this article was developed at the workshops and seminars of the Beckley Foundation, and has already been influential in persuading a House of Commons Select Committee to condemn the current government classification as "not fit for purpose."

posted by LoZo 12:55 PM