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Originally Posted by ganstaman
So you and Max Planck think the universe didn't exist until humans did?
-If yes: show me some evidence. I see evidence of the opposite, so it's a little hard to believe you blindly.
-If no: you aren't actually addressing what I said.
Well please inform me, then, oh Condescending One. I'm only a psychiatrist, so what would I know about drugs and the actual effects they have on the brain?
Though to be honest, I wasn't actually making a comment on drugs there, but more one about BigErf, who has this habit of getting high, then posting things that don't really make sense and would likely never be posted by someone who was sober.
1) I didn't say that because I'm not actually smart enough to argue the point. I pointed out that Max Planck, a physicist who won the Nobel prize for his theory of Quantum Theory/Mechanics disagrees with what you said.
Someone who knows more about Quantum Mechanics can correct me if I'm wrong but he seems to be saying that matter as we know it doesn't exist and the universe is made up of probability equations of what is most probabilistic to happen. And not only does human consciousness affect the probability of things within the universe but they wouldn't be physical matter without some form of consciousness to be aware of it as matter.
2) That's great, as a psychiatrist you have some power to make info like this more widespread and available to people who really need it.
Psilocybin-Assisted Treatment for Alcohol Dependence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAdmGMceP-4
The Use of LSD, Psilocybin, and Bromo-LSD for the Treatment of Cluster Headaches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNonSMghN40
The Potential of Ayahuasca Use for the Treatment of Substance Dependencies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buHXsQ0-grI
There is a lot more info, much of it preliminary and much of it without tons of research data as most governments have made these drugs illegal in order to push more dangerous pharma drugs. None the less there is info out there if you look for it. Iboga and Ayahuasca have very high success rates for the treatment of addiction though given the setting and situations in which people use these, I'm sure the follow up data isn't enough to go on. That said it's time to stop ignoring these "drugs" or even labeling them drugs and start investigating their possible use in treatment of addiction, anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc.
I won't bother posting all the amazing things cannabis does as the info is all over the internet and quite easy to find. At this point anyone who denies cannabis as a drug with positive medicinal benefits is pushing their own agenda anyway.
When are our govts going to let us do research within a controlled environment with these amazing drugs that could potentially have a higher success rate than the man made drugs currently being prescribed?