Reddit reviews The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness
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I always liked Andrew Weil's approach to drugs in his 1972 bestseller, The Natural Mind. It always struck me as a sane approach to what society considers the drug problem. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0395911567?pc_redir=1414091418&robot_redir=1
I cringe a little for you comparing/contrasting psychedelics with pharmaceutical drugs. I am no fan of pharmaceuticals, but you are picking a fight with two tough guys at once. Namely that pharma is bad and psychedelics are good. Both are fights against the norm. Pick one instead, I think.
You can cherry pick some ideas from McKenna's Food of the Gods for some historical context. You can touch on the early treatments using LSD in the 50's and 60's. Then I read a couple papers on using DMT in the treatment of heroin addiction. With these build an argument for positive uses for psychedelics.
The drug is "heroin," not "heroine," which is a female hero.
You need to do some research. I don't intend to debate you point by point, but you're widely misinformed. You might try The Drug War by Dan Russell. Another book which changed my opinions early on was The Natural Mind by Andrew Weil.
Well, pot isn't good for the lungs - no "smoke" inhalation is.
Another fact that isn't mentioned here is that pot has become "stronger" in the last 30-40 years. This partly has to do with enhanced farming technique, but also with the fact that other things are added in - you never know if its dusted or chemically enhanced since there is not a safe way to produce it since it is illegal. This is why medicinal pot really needs to be available en masse.
I do think however, that a verifiable downside is the loss of short term memory. It also tends to make people sluggish, but that is more opinion that anything.
I rally thing you would LOVE this book however - It's called "the Natural Mind" written by Andrew Weil - the Doc who is on PBS alot proselytizing whole health, natural health and the like.
His Website: http://www.drweil.com/
His Book: http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Mind-Investigation-Higher-Consciousness/dp/0395911567
He did a lot of experimenting Timothy Leary style