April 20, 2010
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The largest gathering on psychedelic science in four decades has been held in San Jose, California.
The three-day conference, which ended on April 17, was a forum to exchange news about small, preliminary, and still inconclusive studies to treat such problems as obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and end-of-life anxiety.
Some scientists think that psychedelics have significant benefits and can even be used for curing severe drug-related symptoms.
The conference was sponsored by the Santa Cruz-based nonprofit group Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which supports research into LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA, also known as Ecstasy.
More cautious than the evangelists of the 1960s, the speakers summarized studies at Johns Hopkins, UCLA, UC San Francisco, the University of Arizona, and New York University.
In Miami, researchers are giving heroin addicts a hallucinogen to see if it helps ease withdrawal symptoms. At Boston’s McLean Hospital, affiliated with Harvard, Ecstasy is also being given to people with advanced cancer in an effort to ease the anxiety of dying.
As the meeting closed, conference organizer Randolph Hencken said, “We want smart and loving studies that will make big changes used for future generations to make their lives better.”
The largest gathering on psychedelic science in four decades has been held in San Jose, California.