psychidelic pioneers?

[timouse]

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caught most of this on the History Channel last night...it's a documentary on LSD from a Canadian perspective. The documentary largely focused on Humphrey Osmond and his colleagues in Weyburn Saskatchewan and their experiments in the early 60's with LSD. After trying the drug themselves, they began to administer relatively high doses to alcoholics and later to schizophrenics, and found that poarticularly in the case of alcoholics, they were able to sort themselves out after a few sessions and see what it was in their life that troubled them and drove them to drink. Osmond claimed almost a 50% sucess rate in treating alcohol abuse with LSD.

Osmond and his colleagues went on to design a centre for schizophrenia research, incorporating design elements that they had discovered during acid trips in order to make a more pleasant environment for patients. This led to a whole new approach to building design, and there are now several post grad environmental design programs that incorporate a lot of their work.

Some of the early news footage concerning acid were mind-boggling....i hope they re-broadcast it, it was well worth watching.

anyone else see this??

[Esau]

anyone else see this??

Yep. But I fell asleep before it finished.

[CyberHippie]

I caught the last half of it. Interesting stuff.

LSD: The Beyond Within is still the best I've seen so far though.