Sentences with phrase «psychedelic drugs do»

Psychedelic drugs do precisely this and so are powerful tools for exploring what happens in the brain when consciousness is profoundly altered.

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It's no surprise, then, that, as music critic and Haggard biographer David Cantwell points out, two days after «Okie» hit the top 100 charts, President Nixon delivered a speech written by Patrick Buchanan on the «silent majority» who didn't protest or yell or want free love or psychedelic drugs.

And for anyone who suspects that hemp brownies are truly a throwback to the 60s, let me say, first of all, that the hemp seeds in these are the edible kind, so you are not ingesting any mind - altering chemicals whatsoever here (unless you count the flood of serotonins in the brain due to their heavenly taste); and second of all, hemp is not the same thing as hash, and of course the classic hippie confection was a hash brownie; and third of all, how the heck would I even know, because I never did manage to consume any of the latter, even in my undergrad days, because I am such a nerd that nobody ever offered me any, and hash brownies never appealed to me, anyway — I mean, why sully your chocolate with psychedelic drugs?

«If you were to develop a drug to treat PTSD, you'd want it to do exactly what MDMA does,» says Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which funds and conducts the research.

The UBC Okanagan study found that 42 per cent of U.S. adult male inmates who did not take psychedelic drugs were arrested within six years for domestic battery after their release, compared to a rate of 27 per cent for those who had taken drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (commonly known as magic mushrooms) and MDMA (ecstasy).

«What we have done in this research is begin to identify the biological basis of the reported mind expansion associated with psychedelic drugs,» said Dr Robin Carhart - Harris from the Department of Medicine, Imperial College London.

This idea of cosmic consciousness ---- later transformed slightly into concepts like «expanded consciousness,» at which point, in the late 1960s, it fed into ideas about the psychedelic and transformative powers of LSD and other drugs ---- is something that is comprehensible in Fleming's paintings even if you don't know a thing about theories of the fourth dimension.