It may even be true that LSD is a cure for the human cold. One time, I had a cold and decided to take LSD anyway. When the trip was over, so was the cold and there is no way that cold was going away so fast without having taken the LSD. It is not as silly an idea as one may think. Actually, it makes perfect sense in that LSD is so powerful, the poor, little cold doesn't stand a chance. It may not even be absurd to think that it's possible for LSD to cure a disease or many of them, if not all of them. If a person has a terminal disease and there is nothing more the doctors can do, suppose the patient was given LSD every day. The dosages would have to go up to keep the effect. If nothing that is known by the doctors can help the patient, who is to say that this isn't worth a try and who is to say that it is impossible for LSD to save the patient's life? No research has ever been done on this. No one knows if it would work until it is tried. It may very well be that LSD is so powerful that not only does a cold have no chance, but maybe no disease can survive a continuous non-stop battle against LSD.

Stanislav Grof certainly understands the possibility of LSD curing diseases. Here is what he said on page 104 of his book, The Adventure of Self-Discovery, about LSD and cancer patients:

"In our program of LSD therapy for cancer patients, we have repeatedly observed that individuals suffering from various forms of malignancy were able to connect experientially with their tumors on a tissue and cellular level. They have often made spontaneous attempts to use this experience for healing by creating psychologically positive energy fields, confronting negative emotions they felt were associated with the disease process, mobilizing the defenses of the organism, or attacking mentally the tumors. Several instances of surprising temporary remissions which occurred in this context suggest that this possibility should be systematically explored".

It is a tragic shame that all serious research on LSD, by law, had to stop in the mid 1960's. One can do research on LSD as long as the government approves of what you're doing which means forget it. Those who were involved in serious LSD research in the 1960's knew that they were on to something BIG, but were only able to scratch the surface before the research door was slammed shut. There is no telling how much better this world would now be if Timothy Leary and his people and others who also were serious about it were all encouraged to continue their research instead of being harassed and in some cases, such as Leary, thrown into jail.

Psychedelic plants and foods similar to marijuana and others similar to LSD have been used all over the world going all the way back to the beginning of man. This, therefore, is nothing new, but is, indeed, an ancient human phenomenon. At different times and in different places, the visionary religious experience has been very highly valued and respected, unlike the United States which has no idea what it is at all and looks down on any talk about it as insanity or psychosis.

Must our country remain a bunch of people who insist that there is only one channel on the TV set and be so certain about it that there's no point in even trying to change the channel or talk about it? To carry this analogy another step further, it is as if we forbid anyone to try changing the channel. If someone gets caught watching another channel, they go to jail. Because changing channels is too dangerous and can make people psychotic, we just cannot have a country of channel-changing deviants. If someone doesn't fall for this con and says that there are many channels, that the big assortment makes TV much better and that people have a right to change channels, then that person is seen as crazy and dangerous to society. That is what the conventional wisdom says or rather the conventional lack of wisdom because the person who is going against the society in saying positive things about changing TV stations is correct and not at all crazy. Timothy Leary was correct and not at all crazy.