What happened to these two individuals, and to quite a few others, went far
beyond a bad trip. Google [psychedelic schizophrenia] for some of the
scientific and medical research on the subject. Some minds are permanently
shattered by bad trips. Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd may be a preeminent example.
Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In
political-research@yahoogroups.com, Sean McBride
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I know of two particular cases in which friends of mine (one a
> high school classmate, another a college classmate) did in fact
> suffer permanent mental breakdowns from the use of psychedelic
> drugs -- one from a bad LSD trip, another from a bad mescaline
> trip.
Check. A bad trip ("flip out") can be terrifying, and potentially
quite destructive I imagine.
My point, to be more specific, is that there is nothing inherent
to the **pharmacology** of the drugs that is neurodegenerative,
in the way that was originally suggested. I was not saying that one
cannot have bad experiences while under their influence -- bad
experiences that could have long-term ill effects.
The great majority of "psychedelic" (entheogenic) drug users --
many, many millions of them -- have suffered no such ill effects.
Set and setting are extremely important. See the literature on
this subject.
