greed pixabayMaybe you’ve noticed lately that “scientific research shows” that electricity and LSD cures almost everything. There are many factors pushing this stupidity, among which are:

  1. Pharmaceutical company miracle cures such as antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs don’t cure anything and don’t work any better than placebos.
  2. Those miracle cures have side effects such as mass shootings and suicide.
  3. Those miracle cures are being replaced by generics thus threatening the $1 trillion (with a T) BigPharma revenues.
  4. “Scientific research” isn’t very scientific, as it is influenced by vested interests which either show that BigPharma works or are quietly disposed of, and can’t be replicated when done objectively.
  5. So BigPharma, loaded with jewels and treasure, is hopping off the sinking USS Antidepressant, and onto the luxury yacht “PsychoWire” powered by deep brain stimulation and psychedelics.

First, Deep Brain Stimulation

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) puts electrodes into the brain at various places. When the current is turned on, fingers tap, legs jerk, faces twitch, a charging bull screeches to a stop. Supposedly, depression departs, autism and anxiety evaporate, Parkinson’s stops and such diseases as diabetes, asthma, COPD, arthritis, heart conditions, and gastrointestinal diseases are cured. One variety called “electroceuticals” is pioneered by GlaxoSmithKline, the same company that in 2012 paid $3 billion to the Department of Justice for fraud, phony research studies and pushing drugs off label for kids even though those drugs increased suicides in kids. Nice ethical company has your best interests at heart, let them put some wires in your head, right? Oh and the $3 billion was small change. Right after their $3 billion payout, their stock went up, didn’t even make a dent in the stock price. So they can cheat, steal etc. and even if they’re caught, so what?

  1. Deep brain stimulation was already used in the CIA’s MKULTRA mind-control project in the 1950s. That was secret, but even though CIA Director Richard Helms tried to burn all records of the project, he missed some and the project was exposed. The military was worried about North Korean brainwashing and secretly funded research to keep up with the communists. Today the military is funding electroceutical research this time out in front of God and everybody, because it is camouflaged as help for PTSD, crazy people, etc. But hey, it’s the military, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
  2. There’s another kind of electrical stimulation of the brain called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) kind of a little sister to implanting wires in the head. It has the advantage of being non-invasive, meaning it’s stealthy and doesn’t require the operator to drill through the skull which can sometimes be detected by the person. So it could be hooked up to a doorframe and magnetically stimulate the brains of anybody coming through the door. Make you buy BigPharma stock, or vote to raise taxes for psychiatric research.
  3. And then of course there’s the nuclear option when it comes to electricity and brains, just give the person electroshock, roll the dice and maybe the person will be so stunned he’ll forget to be nuts, or he might – as Ernest Hemingway did after 15 electroshocks – go home and put a shotgun in his mouth and blow his head off. These days they give muscle relaxants so not so many teeth or spines are broken. It’s a kindler-gentler type of electroshock but it causes brain damage and that – like suicide – brings on many changes.

And Then There’s Psychedelics

Have you noticed the promotion of psychedelics recently? Since most Baby Boomer druggies can’t remember the 1960s, many have forgotten – except in vivid flashbacks – the downside of dropping acid and lots of other psychedelic concoctions. Little things like hallucinations and going nuts for a while or forever, and “scorched brain syndrome.”

Timothy Leary told us to “turn on, tune in and drop out,” but later said that LSD got into the public arena and was abused. Poor guy, he had it all figured out that it would only be used by PhDs and above, and then the unwashed masses got hold of it and used it to hallucinate. The CIA used it to drive soldiers crazy and to suicide, and stupid people who grew up watching Superman thought they could fly off tall buildings wearing meat bodies.

OK, so that was then. Today we also have stupid people – who exist in every generation – telling us that LSD, Ahuasca, DMT and other psychedelic substances can cure addiction, PTSD, depression,   anxiety, eating disorders,smoking, OCD, crime, toe fungus, warts,  and every other mental illness formerly treated by pharmaceuticals which have proven ineffective or for which the patents have expired.

But using LSD, for example on those with mental illness can make things worse, according to some sources Stupid people in academia — there are such people, after all Leary was a Harvard professor –  in the military, medicine, psychiatry and government seem to have decided that psychedelics, electroshock and mental health pharmaceuticals are useful, at least to the extent that “we don’t know why they are troubled, and we don’t know what these treatments do, so we’ll just roll the dice, blast their brains  with electricity or pickle them with drugs and see what happens. After all, this isn’t rocket science.”

So a bunch of states have legalized marijuana for medical use, and eight states have legalized it for recreational use. And as evidence it is truly a “gateway drug” small amounts of hard drugs have now been decriminalized in Oregon – stuff like  LSD, heroin, methamphetamine, etc, and initiatives are under way in California  and Oregon to legalize psychedelic mushrooms.

Now the The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies  (MAPS) is also trying to legalize psychedelics and marijuana, and other stupid people are already hard at work on legislation to legalize bad trips and drug-induced psychosis. With all these extravagant claims for psychedelics, these magical mystery cures, one might be advised to consider where these wild claims are coming from and who stands to profit from a nation on drugs.

After all, most of the studies, that all these reports of wonderfulness depend on, can’t be reproduced, meaning they are either sloppy or influenced by their funding to get a specific result. So look for yourself and don’t go dropping acid to cheer up, because you may end up stuck in Nightmare Town with a lot of burnouts from the 1960s.