Psychedelic brew ayahuasca's profound impact revealed in brain scans

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4. Reality is already a slippery commodity for a hell of a lot of people

who have been told so many lies they believe all of them.

Friends who were fellow trippers in the 60s and 70s are either totally non religious or got scared into embracing old time religion and are zealots. That's mostly because we were experimenting with some powerful stuff without a social or ceremonial framework. It was a liberating experience for some of us, a destructive one for others.

The little work that the DEA allows has been illuminating, the various drugs having great potential for treating addictions, depression and a host of other problems, something the local tribes have been saying about mescaline for years.

I had hoped I would see the end of Nixon's mean spirited drug war, but that's not likely. This country has a hard and incredibly cruel Puritan streak in its psyche, things that help many people are withheld so that a few can be punished, and the Puritans want to watch.