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Marine vet credits LSD and MDMA with helping him “come home from Vietnam"
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:29 pm
Hell yeah brother. Helped him get his swing back too. I hope more vets get access to this treatment it seems to do wonders for those who have tried. Time to kick the stigma around hallucinogens.
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The treatment involved a series of Schedule I drugs—including psilocybin (the hallucinogen in “magic mushrooms”), DMT (the active ingredient in ayahuasca) and LSD—meaning they are banned by the federal government and believed to have a high potential for abuse and no medical value. “For four days I was at it: The first day it was ayahuasca, the second day mushrooms,” Parsons says. “The third day, I just played golf. I'd never putted so good in my whole life, before or since. I mean it was like the green was saying ‘Hit it is here, Bobby,’ and it would go right in.” On the fourth day, Parsons took “good old-fashioned LSD.” The drugs helped him relax and “talk through a lot of stuff. Tears. It was not easy,” Parsons says in his gruff voice. Psychedelic-assisted therapy is “not a happy, pleasant thing,” he says, explaining that he relives many of his traumatic experiences during a session.
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...his family, friends and employees saw a change in his demeanor. He was nicer, softer, even kind. “I’m worried about Dad,” Parsons’ son said at the time. “He’s been calling me more and he’s so nice to me. I worry that he found out that he’s going to die shortly.”
But Parsons wasn’t dying. For the first time since he learned how to kill and remain calm under enemy fire, Parsons actually felt like his old self. “What I will tell you,” he says, “it’s been 50 years since the war and I finally came home.”
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On March 1, 1969, Bob Parsons was carrying a rifle through a rice paddy in the Qu?ng Nam province in Vietnam. As an 18-year-old grunt with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, the Maryland native was painfully aware that dying 9,000 miles from home was a very real possibility.
“I wasn’t there four hours before I saw my first taste of grisly combat,” the billionaire founder of GoDaddy says in his distinct Baltimore accent.On his first day operating off of Hill 190, the North Vietnamese threw a grenade at his battalion, but it didn’t go off. A soldier picked it up and tried to hurl it back, but it exploded and he “got pretty mangled,” Parsons says. The next night, the squad’s point man was walking on a dike when he hit a tripwire, detonating another grenade. The soldier’s legs were shredded and Parsons carried him to the medevac unit. His team went on ambushes every night, slogging through paddies, covered in leeches and mosquitoes. One pitch-black night, a month after arriving, Parsons was second point man on an ambush, moving through a village, when he hit a tripwire.
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This post was edited on 11/16/22 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:32 pm to HenryParsons
MDMA should have never been fully outlawed. The state of mental health today would likely be much different if it wasn't.
This post was edited on 11/16/22 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:34 pm to HenryParsons
Can't wait for the assholes to come into this thread to say "he should've just dealt with his problems instead of turning to drugs"
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:35 pm to HenryParsons
Colorado just decriminalized psilocybin which opens the way for treatment centers in the state. It’s a positive development.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:38 pm to HenryParsons
Here's 2 charities that exist solely to send afflicted vets to other countries to receive psychedelic therapy:
VETS
Heroic Hearts
VETS
Heroic Hearts
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:40 pm to HenryParsons
I’m glad he’s doing better. Getting high had nothing to do with it though. Hope it doesn’t become a crutch for him.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:43 pm to STLDawg
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I’m glad he’s doing better. Getting high had nothing to do with it though. Hope it doesn’t become a crutch for him.
It's not just "getting high". It's a guided series of deep therapy sessions. The drugs allow the person to relax and talk about their traumas openly with less fear.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:43 pm to HenryParsons
So now we celebrate drug addicts
Brandon’s America
Brandon’s America
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:43 pm to STLDawg
quote:This would be the whooshing air of the point as it travels over your head.
Getting high had nothing to do with it though. Hope it doesn’t become a crutch for him.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:52 pm to el Gaucho
quote:Link?
So now we celebrate drug addicts
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:52 pm to genuineLSUtiger
I am curious about this, being that it is still illegal federally can't veterans lose their benefits/retirement/disability?
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:57 pm to WTHisgoingon
quote:Not if they go to a country where it's legal. I would even doubt the services have any vested interest in prosecuting any such members. I actually have direct knowledge of higher ups in 2 of the services that are actively seeking a way to bring this formally inside so they can help their guys.
I am curious about this, being that it is still illegal federally can't veterans lose their benefits/retirement/disability?
Posted on 11/16/22 at 4:00 pm to HenryParsons
I can relate. Everyone should do psychedelics.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 4:06 pm to Big Scrub TX
Good to know...thank you.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 4:28 pm to HenryParsons
Tried it once, didn’t like it and will never do it again. Of course using this in a medical setting is a whole lot safer than what I did lol.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 4:30 pm to The Third Leg
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I can relate. Everyone should do psychedelics.
I don't do well with psychedelics, personally. But I 100% support legalizing them.
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