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Don't you just love Wyoming?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/150...elic_study.html
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rottmom
QUOTE
Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug
By MALCOLM RITTER
AP SCIENCE WRITER
NEW YORK -- In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project.
She felt like she was taking off. She saw colors. Then it felt like her heart was ripping open.
But she called the experience joyful as well as painful, and says that it has helped her to this day.
"I feel more centered in who I am and what I'm doing," said Osborn, now 66, of Providence, R.I. "I don't seem to have those self-doubts like I used to have. I feel much more grounded (and feel that) we are all connected."
Scientists reported Tuesday that when they surveyed volunteers 14 months after they took the drug, most said they were still feeling and behaving better because of the experience.
Two-thirds of them also said the drug had produced one of the five most spiritually significant experiences they'd ever had.
The drug, psilocybin, is found in so-called "magic mushrooms." It's illegal, but it has been used in religious ceremonies for centuries.
The study involved 36 men and women during an eight-hour lab visit. It's one of the few such studies of a hallucinogen in the past 40 years, since research was largely shut down after widespread recreational abuse of such drugs in the 1960s.
The project made headlines in 2006 when researchers published their report on how the volunteers felt just two months after taking the drug. The new study followed them up a year after that.
Experts emphasize that people should not try psilocybin on their own because it could be harmful. Even in the controlled setting of the laboratory, nearly a third of participants felt significant fear under the effects of the drug. Without proper supervision, someone could be harmed, researchers said.
By MALCOLM RITTER
AP SCIENCE WRITER
NEW YORK -- In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project.
She felt like she was taking off. She saw colors. Then it felt like her heart was ripping open.
But she called the experience joyful as well as painful, and says that it has helped her to this day.
"I feel more centered in who I am and what I'm doing," said Osborn, now 66, of Providence, R.I. "I don't seem to have those self-doubts like I used to have. I feel much more grounded (and feel that) we are all connected."
Scientists reported Tuesday that when they surveyed volunteers 14 months after they took the drug, most said they were still feeling and behaving better because of the experience.
Two-thirds of them also said the drug had produced one of the five most spiritually significant experiences they'd ever had.
The drug, psilocybin, is found in so-called "magic mushrooms." It's illegal, but it has been used in religious ceremonies for centuries.
The study involved 36 men and women during an eight-hour lab visit. It's one of the few such studies of a hallucinogen in the past 40 years, since research was largely shut down after widespread recreational abuse of such drugs in the 1960s.
The project made headlines in 2006 when researchers published their report on how the volunteers felt just two months after taking the drug. The new study followed them up a year after that.
Experts emphasize that people should not try psilocybin on their own because it could be harmful. Even in the controlled setting of the laboratory, nearly a third of participants felt significant fear under the effects of the drug. Without proper supervision, someone could be harmed, researchers said.
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rottmom
badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers MUSHROOM MUSHROOM badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers/
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers/
QUOTE (pestone @ Jul 5 2008, 11:34 PM) 
badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers MUSHROOM MUSHROOM badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers/
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers/
OK, I'm nuts now.
QUOTE (bushwa)
OK, I'm nuts now.
Not quite yet.
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/scampi/
Now you're nuts.
QUOTE (pestone @ Jul 5 2008, 11:34 PM)
badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers MUSHROOM MUSHROOM badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers badgersbadgersbadgersbadgers MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers/
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers/
Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!
QUOTE (Fellixe @ Jul 5 2008, 11:56 PM)
Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!
We don't need no stinking badgers, all we need is love
http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/20...n_lawn_cha.html
Update: Bend man flies his balloon-powered chair to Idaho
Jeff Barnard/APKent Couch lifts off from his gas station in Bend in his lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons.
McCALL, IDAHO - One wonders what the scattering horses thought as Kent Couch descended from the sky in his lawn chair into their pasture outside of Cambridge on Saturday.
Certainly the two-legged locals in the western Idaho town were amused. A herd them kicked up dirt in their pickups chasing down farm roads after the Bend gas station owner and cluster balloon aviator as he touched down in brown bunch grass after a roughly 235-mile drift.
"A customer said, 'Oh, it's the balloon man, it's the balloon man.' So we ran outside," said Laurene Houghton, owner of the City Market in Cambridge, population 350.
Couch, 48, was making his third attempt to fly from Bend to Boise in a Lafuma recliner tethered to a cluster of oversized helium-filled balloons. But winds carried him a bit north of his goal, toward McCall. He had said before the flight that he'd be happy to hit Idaho.
By that measure, the flight was a success. And Couch outdid his performance from a year ago, when his aluminum-reinforced craft carried him only as far as Oregon's Union County. A flight in 2006 ended with Couch parachuting to Earth.
Couch became intrigued with cluster balloon flight after seeing a television program about 1982 Los Angeles lawn chair aviator Larry Walters. He's tried in his solo journeys to recapture some of the childhood wonder he had about flight.
"It hasn't been that dangerous," Couch said before Saturday's flight. "It's really quite peaceful."
On Saturday, he left his Shell gas station at 6 a.m. after kissing his wife, Susan, and patting their Chihuahua, Isabella, on the head. By 3:15 p.m., he was about 10,000 feet above Idaho's Weiser River valley, floating even with the cottony cumulus clouds that crowded the blue sky.
He floated with a parachute for safety, water jugs for ballast and a satellite phone to keep in touch with family and supporters following on the ground.
He traveled over John Day, through northeast Oregon and into Idaho, appearing from a distance as a silver glint dangling below a bouquet of red, blue and yellow balloons.
The balloons, each about 6 feet in diameter, retail for about $20 each. And a $70 helium tank fills only about three balloons, said Mark Knowles, a friend of Couch's helping with his flight.
Couch relied on corporate sponsors to cover much of his expenses.
Shortly after crossing into Idaho, he began popping some of his remaining balloons (he started with 160) in earnest, using a pellet gun and blow darts carried for that purpose, and began to descend.
When he landed, he released most of the remaining balloons, presumably so the chair wouldn't float away and get lost as it did in his 2007 flight. The chair was later found and returned.
By 3:45 p.m., he was on the ground, where he appeared unharmed as he got out of the chair and was greeted by Cambridge locals who had followed his progress across their skyline.
"Of course, everyone knows everyone else, so it was a big party out there in the middle of this gravel road," said Mark Hetz, a local plumber who was among those who hopped in their cars to chase Couch after seeing him fly overhead.
-- Matthew Preusch; preusch@bendbroadband.com
Update: Bend man flies his balloon-powered chair to Idaho
Jeff Barnard/APKent Couch lifts off from his gas station in Bend in his lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons.
McCALL, IDAHO - One wonders what the scattering horses thought as Kent Couch descended from the sky in his lawn chair into their pasture outside of Cambridge on Saturday.
Certainly the two-legged locals in the western Idaho town were amused. A herd them kicked up dirt in their pickups chasing down farm roads after the Bend gas station owner and cluster balloon aviator as he touched down in brown bunch grass after a roughly 235-mile drift.
"A customer said, 'Oh, it's the balloon man, it's the balloon man.' So we ran outside," said Laurene Houghton, owner of the City Market in Cambridge, population 350.
Couch, 48, was making his third attempt to fly from Bend to Boise in a Lafuma recliner tethered to a cluster of oversized helium-filled balloons. But winds carried him a bit north of his goal, toward McCall. He had said before the flight that he'd be happy to hit Idaho.
By that measure, the flight was a success. And Couch outdid his performance from a year ago, when his aluminum-reinforced craft carried him only as far as Oregon's Union County. A flight in 2006 ended with Couch parachuting to Earth.
Couch became intrigued with cluster balloon flight after seeing a television program about 1982 Los Angeles lawn chair aviator Larry Walters. He's tried in his solo journeys to recapture some of the childhood wonder he had about flight.
"It hasn't been that dangerous," Couch said before Saturday's flight. "It's really quite peaceful."
On Saturday, he left his Shell gas station at 6 a.m. after kissing his wife, Susan, and patting their Chihuahua, Isabella, on the head. By 3:15 p.m., he was about 10,000 feet above Idaho's Weiser River valley, floating even with the cottony cumulus clouds that crowded the blue sky.
He floated with a parachute for safety, water jugs for ballast and a satellite phone to keep in touch with family and supporters following on the ground.
He traveled over John Day, through northeast Oregon and into Idaho, appearing from a distance as a silver glint dangling below a bouquet of red, blue and yellow balloons.
The balloons, each about 6 feet in diameter, retail for about $20 each. And a $70 helium tank fills only about three balloons, said Mark Knowles, a friend of Couch's helping with his flight.
Couch relied on corporate sponsors to cover much of his expenses.
Shortly after crossing into Idaho, he began popping some of his remaining balloons (he started with 160) in earnest, using a pellet gun and blow darts carried for that purpose, and began to descend.
When he landed, he released most of the remaining balloons, presumably so the chair wouldn't float away and get lost as it did in his 2007 flight. The chair was later found and returned.
By 3:45 p.m., he was on the ground, where he appeared unharmed as he got out of the chair and was greeted by Cambridge locals who had followed his progress across their skyline.
"Of course, everyone knows everyone else, so it was a big party out there in the middle of this gravel road," said Mark Hetz, a local plumber who was among those who hopped in their cars to chase Couch after seeing him fly overhead.
-- Matthew Preusch; preusch@bendbroadband.com
QUOTE ('Stoon')
Now I'm nuts.
(Cat is definitely outgunned, and is pretending to be Garden Gnome.)
QUOTE (plodder @ Jul 6 2008, 03:23 AM)
We're under attack!
QUOTE (bushwa @ Jul 6 2008, 11:32 PM)
We're under attack!
We had to assert our rights a bit on the Forth. My 10 year old son was enjoying these little bottle rockets that floated back down with a parachute. A cop came by and told him they were illegal and we couldn't have anything that made a boom or flew into the air. It sounded to me like a rule a they just pulled out of their behinds. The neighborhood went down to the police station. Confiscated fireworks were returned on the spot. Our city chief of police called the cop in question and told her to lay off. Where we live you can legally light fireworks on the 4th until 11PM. Our block lit off about $4000 worth and had a display about as good as the one put on by the city.
QUOTE (Wayne @ Jul 6 2008, 11:47 PM)
...Where we live you can legally light fireworks on the 4th until 11PM. Our block lit off about $4000 worth and had a display about as good as the one put on by the city....
I think fireworks are exceptionally dangerous, are typically recklessly misused by assholes, and cause untold horrors, and so the only person who can be trusted to handle them capably AND provide fun for all is me.
BTW, I feel the same way about guns, SUVs, and television broadcasting. See, I should be "The Decider."
QUOTE (bushwa @ Jul 7 2008, 12:01 AM)
I think fireworks are exceptionally dangerous, are typically recklessly misused by assholes, and cause untold horrors
Safety is a must. Now that I'm a dad we don't just put on leather jackets and full-face helmets, walk out onto the street, and shoot them at each other anymore.
QUOTE (bushwa)
See, I should be "The Decider."
"I feel strangely comfortable with that."
QUOTE (pestone @ Jul 7 2008, 12:21 AM)
"I feel strangely comfortable with that."
Well then I'm sure no mod here will quibble with my telling you, you are one sick fuck, Pesty!
QUOTE (Wayne @ Jul 7 2008, 12:16 AM)
Safety is a must. Now that I'm a dad we don't just put on leather jackets and full-face helmets, walk out onto the street, and shoot them at each other anymore.
HA! Sounds very cool! I'd allow that!
This is funny, for the first time in years, I didn't shoot my gun off on the 4th, and I mean my rifle, not Mr. Happy, I fired him off first thing in the morning with the aid of my wife!!! (I hope she never finds this thread) Ammo is in short supply, and I was away from home, but I did make it home on the horse, of course I was tied in, which sucked when I tried to untie myself while blindingly drunk, good thing I had the wife with me!!!
QUOTE (TapDuncan @ Jul 7 2008, 03:48 PM)
This is funny, for the first time in years, I didn't shoot my gun off on the 4th, and I mean my rifle, not Mr. Happy, I fired him off first thing in the morning with the aid of my wife!!! (I hope she never finds this thread) Ammo is in short supply, and I was away from home, but I did make it home on the horse, of course I was tied in, which sucked when I tried to untie myself while blindingly drunk, good thing I had the wife with me!!!
TMI!
Hey Mr D, I heard ya on the podcast I believe for last friday.... I think you are Randi's favorite.... outside Wexler.
BORED STIFF!
QUOTE (brotherdavid @ Jul 7 2008, 04:48 PM)
The Royal Pick
Happy 81st Birday to Gina L
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