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Article: Spiritual Effects of Hallucinogens Persist, Johns Hopkins Researchers Report; Related Report Gives Safety Guidelines for Hallucinogen Research.
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- June 30, 2008
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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BALTIMORE, July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a follow-up to research showing that psilocybin, a substance contained in "sacred mushrooms," produces substantial spiritual effects, a Johns Hopkins team reports that those beneficial effects appear to last more than a year.
Writing in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, the Johns Hopkins researchers note that most of the 36 volunteer subjects given psilocybin, under controlled conditions in a Hopkins study published in 2006, continued to say 14 months later that the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction.
"Most of the volunteers ...
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