Atomictumor

One of the top news stories on CNN at this dark hour this morning:

People who took an illegal drug made from mushrooms reported profound mystical experiences

Really?

What I found even funnier, is that some of the volunteers reported having bad trips (although the story didn’t call it by this name), reporting that it was comparable to “the birth of a child, or the death of a parent”.

Small wonder, given that the test consisted of getting 36 volunteers, with a median age of 46, and either giving them a shroom or a placebo consisting of Ritalin (?), and then sitting them down on a couch for eight hours to listen to classical music while wearing an eyemask.

Thats right, kids. What Charles Schuster, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse have learned is that sitting for 8 hours blindfolded and listening to Chopin even sucks when you’re tripping.

In other drug related news, the scourge of Salvia Divinorum has been halted in Tennessee just in time for the news of the scourge being halting to alert all the teenagers to the fact that, yes, Salvia D can get you high.  Good job, Tennessee lawmakers.  You’ve successfully outlawed consumption of an otherwise available landscaping plant that nobody was aware of anyway.

Actually, I did try this stuff once in my experimental days (it was legal, c’mon!), and it consisted of me burning my eye while trying to light my friends honey bear bong with a bic.

Way to harsh the buzz, dude.

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