Some 50 years ago the mantra was "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll." It was an era that encompassed free love, psychedelic drugs and mushrooms.
This week the Associated Press ran two headlines. One reads:
"Brazil official urges more sex for better health."
How many old hippies are sitting, reading these headlines and saying: "Wow! ...Cool! ... I knew it!"
Brazil's Health Minister Jose Temporao made the comments Monday while launching a national campaign against high blood pressure in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia.
He said a remedy for his nation's high blood pressure problem: More sex.
The Health Ministry says that 21.5 percent of Brazilians had high blood pressure in 2006. That jumped to 24.4 percent in 2009.
In our country statistics show an even greater number of Americans with hypertension or high blood pressure. A study from 1999 to 2004, by researchers from the U.S. National Institues of Health, shows only 41 percent of American adults have normal blood pressure levels.
The second headline is:
" Psychedelic trips aid anxiety treatments in study."
The following is taken from AP's story:
New York - (AP) The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She'd already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do.
She swallowed it, lay on the couch with her eyes covered and waited. And then it came.
"The world was made up of jewels and I was in a dome," she recalled. Surrounded by brilliant kaleidoscopic colors, she saw the dome open up to admit "this most incredible luminescence that made everything more beautiful."
Tears trickled down her face as she saw "how beautiful the world could actually be."
That's how Nicky Edlich, 67, began her first-ever trip on a psychedelic drug last year.
Researchers at New York University say the study in which Edlich participated in is among a handful now going on in the United States and elsewhere with drugs like LSD, MDMA (Ecstasy) and psilocybin, the main ingredient of "magic mushrooms." The work follows lines of research choked off four decades ago by the war on drugs. The research is still preliminary. But at least it's there.
It was another small step toward showing that hallucinogenic drugs, famous but condemned in the 1960s, can one day help doctors treat conditions like cancer anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder the researchers stated.
Based on the statistics and the wisdom of old hippies, Americans should stop calling in sick and call in reporting they are treating their illnesses. In other words, stay home take a trip and get laid.
I think the important word is "abuse", as long they don't abuse it and has no long term side effects it should be OK, if not they should warn them. I tried Ethcathinone recently.The feeling was a tingly stimulant. There have been some mood elvation and was actually very happy.
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