This Is Your Brain on LSD, Literally

[attheedgeofscience]

New study on LSD.

• http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/12/health/lsd-brain-imaging/index.html
• http://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-reveal-how-lsd-affects-consciousness-1.19727

 

[Lorenzo74]

I have a friend who produced a very interesting documentary on the application of drugs for medical and "spiritual" purposes...

It is called "Neurons to Nirvana" if someone is interested in the subject...

 

[matt89]

"I recently tried LSD ... , and the surprising thing is that my tinnitus completely goes away for a couple of hours ... . It also seems to me, I obviously didn't perform an audio exam, that my hearing also gets back to normal during that time. I hear things (that are real!) that I don't usually hear, like the light wind in the trees."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/2gfavw/mdma_or_lsd_temporarily_cure_tinnitus/

@Danny Boy @Bobby B forget about RL-81, here's the new Trobalt

 

[Bobby B]

interesting but not a long term solution due to side effects..not to mention its illegal so how do you buy it ?

He hears things better because faint sounds are usually masked by T . Ear hearing does not actually get better but the brain is able to process real sounds better

 

[linearb]

when I was 17 I thought LSD was pretty much the key to the mysteries of the universe, but in hindsight I'd say it's a dangerous -- if novel, and quite fascinating -- shortcut to insights which can be more safely acquired through other means.

 

[Aussie Lea]

not to mention its illegal so how do you buy it ?

Ask your Chinese sources.

 

[DudeMannDude]

I mean, it alters your perception of reality so I could see how it could alter your perception of tinnitus.

 

[Bobby B]

Ask your Chinese sources.

They are prohibited by law to manufacture illegal recreational drugs - which is punishable by death penalty in China

What's there to ask ?

 

[linearb]

They are prohibited by law to manufacture illegal recreational drugs - which is punishable by death penalty in China

What's there to ask ?

massive amounts of schedule-I hallucinogenic drugs are manufactured by custom design/build shops in china (first google hit: http://manufacturer.ec21.com/2cb.html) -- yes, this is punishable by the death penalty in china... except that when it's being produced for export only and the wheels of the state can be greased with some of the profits, it's apparently safe enough to be lucrative.

I sure as hell wouldn't trust a chinese lab with the notoriously difficult LSD synthesis, but I have seen DEA reports and stuff indicating that they are making LSD analogs like AL-LAD over there.

 

[Bobby B]

I see a whole list of countries including the USA in this link...

The kind of labs which is making huge money producing "massive" amounts of those LSD drugs aren't going to waste their time working on a small order of an anti-epileptic drug for a few thousand bucks.

China or not this isn't the same type of labs we are talking about here.

 

[linearb]

I see a whole list of countries including the USA in this link...

The kind of labs which is making huge money producing "massive" amounts of those LSD drugs aren't going to waste their time working on a small order of an anti-epileptic drug for a few thousand bucks.

China or not this isn't the same type of labs we are talking about here.

it's not massive. Accounts I've seen from people who claim to have exported psychedelic research analogs from China, are in the couple-kilos-at-a-time range. There was also a VICE expose a couple years ago that came to more or less the same conclusion.

There are a lot of design/build synth labs in China. I am not implying that all of them are involved in the construction of hallucinogenic drugs; more that any given lab will probably synthesize anything it's capable of synthing, given the correct financial motivation.

 

[linearb]

http://www.vice.com/read/visiting-the-factories-in-china-where-synthetic-marijuana-gets-made

One of the labs that we visited in China was producing enormous quantities of anintermediate for an experimental antiandrogen designed by the pharmaceutical companyRoussel Uclaf. Presumably, it would have no psychoactive effect and was being sold on the grey market to treat androgenic alopecia [a common hair loss condition]. So they're making drugs for baldness, acne, synthetic cannabinoids, antibiotics, ketaminederivatives—all in the same labs. The people that are producing them are not particularly concerned with the end product or who's using it. They're chemists, not moralists.

Crazy. But did the people there know that they were making chemicals that aredesigned for abuse overseas? Or did they not even realize it?
I think the actual chemists doing the benchwork in many instances did not know. Thesynthetic cannabinoids aren't being sold or used domestically in China and the chemists certainly weren't using the drugs themselves, so if they did know, it was in some very abstract capacity. The people that owned the labs who were overseeing the business end had a better idea, but even they may not fully understand beyond the market demand.

There was one lab we visited that was doing contract work for Pfizer, and I asked them if they could offer a chemical called MDMB-FUBINACA that had been implicated in a lot of deaths in Russia, and the chemist that was working there scolded me for even asking about it because she was following the news and was aware that it had been implicated in these fatal poisonings. So that was a definite exception—she knew how the compounds were being used and had concerns about their toxicity.

 

[dboy]

I mean, it alters your perception of reality so I could see how it could alter your perception of tinnitus.

I wondered whether a possible hint was given in this passage from the second of the links posted by ATEOS:

"On the other hand, within some important brain networks, such as the neuronal networks that normally fire together when the brain is at rest, which is sometimes called the 'default mode' network, we saw reduced blood flow — something we've also seen with psilocybin — and that neurons that normally fire together lost synchronization."

 

[BobDigi]

I took LSD around 15-20 times when I was younger. Included were 2 bad trips. I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.

 

[Nick Pyzik]

We shouldn't even be having to take anything at all. Our brains have evolutionized enough along with our genes to allow us to survive and feel good naturally. Unless you felt out of the ordinary and depressed as a child, then you shouldn't be having to take any sort of drug, medication, herb, supplement, or have a dietary plan to feel better. That tells you that something is wrong right there. Having to rely on the in-take of something, even something like sex, to feel better is not right.

I'm not looking down on something like sex, but think about what you did as a very young kid/teen. You didn't do any of the things I'm sure are being done now. If you felt okay then without partaking in any sort of pleasurable or health fixing experiences at that time, then you should be able to do the same now.

Our senses should give us pleasure alone. Our sense of hearing is very emotionally informational, depending on the correct mechanisms involved.