Guardian Unlimited | Science | Lancet calls for LSD in labs

Guardian Unlimited | Science | Lancet calls for LSD in labs: "'Use more psychedelic drugs,' is not advice you would expect from your GP, but that is the call from an influential US medical journal to researchers.

An editorial in the Lancet says that the 'demonisation of psychedelic drugs as a social evil' has stifled vital medical research that would lead to a better understanding of the brain and better treatments for conditions such as depression.

The journal's editor Richard Horton said he was not advocating recreational drug use, but championed the benefits of researchers studying the effects of drugs such as LSD and Ecstasy by using them themselves in the lab."