Sunday, April 25, 2010

Psychedelics and anxiety treatments

Psychedelic trips
aid anxiety treatments in study

Excerpt:

"There is now more psychedelic research taking place in the world
than at any time in the last 40 years," said Rick Doblin, executive
director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies,
which funds some of the work. "We're at the end of the beginning of the
renaissance."


He said that more than 1,200 people attended a conference in
California last weekend on psychedelic science.


But doing the research is not easy, Doblin and others say, with
government funders still leery and drug companies not interested in the
compounds they can't patent. That pretty much leaves private donors.


"There's still a lot of resistance to it," said David Nichols, a
Purdue University professor of medicinal chemistry and president of the
Heffter Institute, which is supporting the NYU study. "The whole hippie
thing in the 60s" and media coverage at the time "has kind of left a bad
taste in the mouth of the public at large.





Boobquake

» Heroic Woman Answers Back Muslim Cleric by Calling for a Worldwide “Boobquake” Boston.BarstoolSports.com
Excerpt:

A
ONE-WOMAN
mission to prove breasts don’t cause earthquakes has
swollen into a shirt-straining global movement preparing for the
inaugural “Boobquake”. Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi angered
womens’ groups around the world on Monday when he claimed that
promiscuous women were responsible for literally making the earth move.
“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt
their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently)
increases earthquakes,” Sedighi said…


Jennifer McCreight is determined to prove him wrong. Since
launching the “Boobquake”
Facebook page
two days ago, she has enlisted more than 20,000 women
promising to show as much cleavage as possible on Monday, April 26. If
the world doesn’t then disappear into an apocalyptic fiery chasm, then
Sedighi will have no option but to admit he was wrong. “On Monday, April
26th, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own,” Ms McCreight
wrote. “Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town. I
encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed
supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that’s your
preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies
combined, we should surely produce an earthquake.

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