article_snippet: The LSD study involved giving the volunteers injections of a 75 microgram dose of LSD before probing the activity of the volunteers injections of a 75 microgram dose of LSD brains.
article_snippet: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, also from the Imperial College team, said the dose of LSD given to the volunteers was a 'tiny speck'.
article_snippet: It would be described as a moderate dose, but a moderate dose of LSD can still produce a profound state of consciousness.
article_snippet: I wouldn't say that it's a dangerous experiment, but I would say that LSD has potential negative effects. '
article_snippet: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, also from the Imperial College team said there had been no evidence of psychedelic drugs such as LSD triggering psychosis in research studies, although there were anecdotal reports of this occurring through recreational use.
article_snippet: Professor Nutt said LSD was widely studied in the 1950s and 1960s and shown to be therapeutically useful in treating 'many conditions', in particular alcoholism.
article_snippet: Professor Nutt stood by the claim that got Professor Nutt into trouble with the Government - that psychoactive drugs such as ecstasy and LSD were considerably less harmful than alcohol. '
article_snippet: Interesting drugs that we've been researching like MDNA (ecstasy) and LSD, are relatively low in terms of harms, considerably less even than cannabis and very much less than alcohol,' Professor Nutt said. '
article_snippet: Professor Nutt maintained that the risks of taking LSD had been 'massively exaggerated' by the CIA and US Drug Enforcement Administration.
article_snippet: Professor Nutt said LSD (a molecule of the drug is pictured) was widely studied in the 1950s and 1960s and shown to be therapeutically useful in treating 'many conditions', in particular alcoholism .