Month: November 2022

I want to #caution my fellow Coloradoans not to mix up the #science of synthetics with that of naturals, ending up treating them as equals, making a mess of our #drugs and #natural #medicines. 

Unlike our #foods and #herbs, all synthetic drugs and additives are #brand-#new to our #planet, never been human-tested to be #safe.  Yet, so far, over the past many decades, the drugs especially, have all turned out to have #toxic #side #effects, some of which have become #new #diseases, like #tardive #dyskinesia.  Why haven’t we seriously tested their 1% to 2% of #impurities legally allowed in them?

As an example, remember the strong action of #LSD.   It is over 100x stronger than psilocybin.   A 1% of it present in psilocybin would double the latter’s #psychedelic effects.   What if LSD’s effects were not psychedelic but, say, liver-damaging or harmful to our immune system?  How are we sure if these impurities will not continue to be present to do us harm?   

For example, how often do we have synthetic psilocybin capsules with no psilocybin, but a tiny dose of LSD mixed in with an inert carrier of plant starch or fiber?   

I have questions on the current synthetic psilocybin (‘crystalline’ included) so widely used in #research and #clinical #trials.  Shouldn’t they be tested for their impurities and #adulterants?  My colleagues and friends, technical or lay, don’t let the advanced sciences, say, #crystallography, bamboozle or distract you from the main goal of our psychedelics used in #mental #healthcare – to repair our body and mind to make us whole again.  We don’t want to take drugs, #prescription or #OTC, to just cope and barely survive.  We don’t want to be sucked into the #vicious #cycle and just take any drugs being thrown at us.  In my long independent career of more than 50 years, I have seen both synthetic and natural #therapeutics at work.  I don’t want us to fall into the vicious cycle of synthetic #psychedelics (e.g., PBN & others).  Hence, I have decided to NOT let natural #shrooms (and the #PBN within them) be replaced by #synthetic #chemicals and go the way many #natural #medicines / #supplements have been heading. 

Therefore, a few of my young colleagues and I are forming a #worldwide #organization to use natural PBN #mycelium to #BYPASS the synthetics (psilocybin, #baeocystin, #norbaeocystin & others) to avoid the toxic effects due to their impurities present in their usually 1% to 2% legally allowed.  We will help our members produce totally clean and natural mycelia containing natural PBN and define their contents so that we will no longer have to guess the amounts of psilocybin’s dosage (along with baeocystin and norbaeocystin, among other #tryptamines) as so commonly practiced in this space. 

However, based on what I have observed during the past 4 decades using #synthetic drugs vs. #herbs in treating diseases, we have no clear #scientific #evidence that the toxic effects of drugs are NOT due to these #unknown #brand-#new synthetic chemicals or to those in their #impurities.  If we are not even sure about the very nature and/or #purity of the modern medicines/drugs we use, how good is our scientific process of which we are so proud for so many decades?

Some respectable scientists, like #Dr. #Harald H.H.W. #Schmidt, have insisted on looking at the #causes of our #diseases before treating them, and I agree.  However, if the diseases are then treated with the same synthetic drugs without knowing exactly what these are, we would be back to square one, because, as I have explained elsewhere, we have NOT effectively dealt with the #side #effects of these drugs and the #new #diseases they cause.  Whatever causing them have created and perpetuated the #vicious #cycle – because the more toxic the drugs, the more side effects, and subsequently, more #new #diseases. This process only enriches drug makers by temporarily eliminating some symptoms, but adding more side effects that need other #new #drugs to treat.  Consumers are thus stuck with the #pain and #suffering.   In the USA, many are financially ruined by these new drugs.   

#Politics should not be the first important action we take concerning psychedelics, unless we have a government truly owned by the people (our citizens) who in turn also own the drugs that truly benefit them and not only #drug #makers and #pushers, financially.  That way, there would be fewer, if any, of #bureaucratic #government #scientists who are involved in #cronyism of #government #research, preserving the status quo of #incompetence and #profitmaking.  I personally experienced this almost 40 years ago, after I won my first #government #contract as a budding #entrepreneur and scientist.  It is described in “Chapter 8:  David vs. Goliath:  #NCI #SBIR #Database Phase II #Contract.  What if…?” in #My #Life & #Rollercoaster #Career, published in 2018 (pp. 121-125).  I am sure this cronyism is still happening in our healthcare monolith, the National Institutes of Health (#NIH).   I suggest the first step is to require all mangers above the departmental level make public their #tax #returns.

Regardless, we should seriously look into 3 major #healthcare #modalities – #nutrition, true #prevention, and #traditional #medicines – that have been eclipsed for far too long by #greed, #ignorance and #arrogance of many scientists and their managers.   If actively employed, these might have prevented some of the following #drugs and #diseases –  #thalidomide, #antibiotics, #Fentanyl, #heroin, #cocaine, #Xanax, #Ingrezza, #Austedo, #amphetamines, #Crohn disease, #Parkinson’s disease, and #Tardive #Dyskinesia, to name a few.