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Re: Timothy Leary is a hero!!!
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Subject: Re: Timothy Leary is a hero!!!
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From: lsd@neosoft.com (Steve )
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:25:48 UNDEFINED
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>>> >is so great about this philosphy?
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>>> Pure, unadulterated horseshit. Leary believed that LSD was a drug with great
>>> theraputic potential and advocated its use as both a psychiatric tool and a
>>> vehicle for personal introspection
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>>but it is the most useless and harmful 'tool' they've tried so far on
>>the poor manic depressives/schizophrenics they try it on.
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>>Caroline
> LSD is generally NOT recommended for use on manic depressives or
>schizophrenics! Obviously the original poster of this thread never did
>much research on Tim Leary or LSD as the claims that Tim Leary's
>philosophies were solely concerned with psychedelics (maybe you are
>confusing Leary with Ken Keasy or someone else), and LSD was usually
>recommended for obsesive compulsive condidtions in most Psychedelic
>rescearch, and it was generally found that manic depressives and
>schizophrenics did poorly on such drugs. In other words, RTFM!
LSD *was* used in the treatment of depression and schizophrenia, but I'm not
here to quibble about treatments recommended or radical; what bothers me is
the assertion that this could be more harmful than hydroshock, electroshock,
insulin shock, lobotomy, or any of the other methods that have been tried.
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