A Drug for a Drug, An Eye for a High

Holey smokes Batman, they've done it again. Those wonderful folks who brought you LSD are now promoting psilocybin. This drug, which has been around for years, is made from mushrooms and, like LSD, is a known hallucinogen.

I want to stress that point: The drug causes hallucinations. According to the Oxford American dictionary a hallucination is defined as "an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present." Get it? It's not real. Keep that in mind when you read the following.

A study—"funded in part by the federal government" (your tax dollars at work)—discovered that psilocybin could create "meaningful or spiritually significant experiences" in the user.

But it's a hallucinogen! It's not a real experience. It's randomly generated and created by the drug and whether you have a spiritual experience or a terrible feeling of fear (the other side of the study), it's being created for you.

The researchers even suggested that the drug might be used to help addicts "kick their habit." Hello?

Leave it to the psychs to use an artificial means to reach a spiritual end.

And as for using a drug to get someone off drugs, isn't that ironic?

—Comment based on data from, "Study: Mushrooms Can Have Lasting Spiritual Effects," by Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press, July 11, 2006