hallucinogens have a well documented ability to help "cure" alcoholics. It's one of the toughest sells for the schedule one status of LSD, mesc, etc., that they don't have any medicinal value. It has been show in the studies the FDA try to bury and anecdotally through many, many people in the Native American Church. AS well as me and you...
congrats and peace
I found this post-
The Dry Piper
William Wilson [11/26/1895 - 1/24/1971] was, by his own account and those of others, a degenerate alcoholic.
After a quasi-religious epiphany, he “cured” himself and went on to found, along with Robert “Dr. Bob” Smith, Alcoholics Anonymous. Their goal was a national and international organization based on the concept of one alcoholic helping another to stay sober. That they more or less succeeded is uniformly recognized as fact. In 1990, Life magazine called Wilson one of the most influential men of the 20th Century.
Today, AA boasts millions of adherents and chapters in nearly every country in the world.
By the late 50s he lapsed into a series of depressions that lasted, off and on, for the better part of his adult life. At their height he was known to pace his AA office muttering about how he’d done all this work to help alcoholics get well but nobody cared about
him. He felt friendless and lonely, bereft of direction, to the point he eventually sought out psychoanalytic therapy.
When word got out to the members that Wilson was seeing a shrink, they seethed with fear and rancor. If the founder of AA himself, the man who’d developed the sacred 12 Steps, was seeing a therapist, didn’t that mean the Steps were suspect? An honest, logical question, to be sure. Wilson scrambled to reassure frightened members that the Steps were solid and effective, though he would continue receiving personal therapy for many years to come.
One of his therapeutic journeys lead him to Trabuco College in California, and the friendship of the college’s founder, Aldous Huxley. The author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception introduced Wilson to LSD-25. The drug rocked Wilson’s world. He thought of it as something of a miracle substance and continued taking it well into the '60s.
As he approached his 70th birthday, he developed a plan to have LSD distributed at all AA meetings nationwide. The plan was eventually quashed by more rational voices, and a few years later the Federal government made the point moot by making the drug illegal.
Read the entire article at
Modern Drunkard Magazine Online.
If they handed out LSD at AA meetings then 'hello My Name is JoeBonanas, And I'm an alcoholic.' LMFAO