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[BurtReynolds]

Well what is he supposed to do? The guy refused his noodles.

[McParadigm]

It was foolish of me to deem this story unworthy of a thread.

[McParadigm]

The biggest crime here is the length of time people stood by watching a lunatic mutilate a corpse, when it was probably fine weather for running the fuck away.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Well what is he supposed to do? The guy refused his noodles.

[Biff Pocoroba]

How Magic Mushrooms Really 'Expand the Mind'

Your brain on psychedelic drugs looks similar to your brain when you're dreaming, suggests a new study that may also explain why people on psychedelics feel they are expanding their mind. In the study, the researchers scanned the brains of 15 people before and after they received an injection of psilocybin, the hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms. Under psilocybin, the activity of primitive brain areas thought to be involved in emotion and memory — including the hippocampus and the anterior cingulate cortex — become more synchronized, suggesting these areas were working together, the researchers said.

This pattern of brain activity is similar to that seen in people who are dreaming, the researchers said.
"I was fascinated to see similarities between the pattern of brain activity in a psychedelic state and the pattern of brain activity during dream sleep," study researcher Robin Carhart-Harris, of Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, said in a statement. "People often describe taking psilocybin as producing a dreamlike state and our findings have, for the first time, provided a physical representation for the experience in the brain."

In contrast, the activity in brain areas involved in "high-level" thinking (such as self-consciousness) were less coordinated under psilocybin, the study found. Finally, using a new technique to analyze the brain data, the researchers found that there were more possible patterns of brain activity when participants were under the influence of psilocybin, compared with when they were not taking the drug. This may be one reason why people who use psychedelic drugs feel that their mind has expanded — their brain has more possible states of activity to explore, the researchers said. The researchers caution that, because some techniques used in the study are new, more research is needed to confirm the findings. The study is published today (July 3) in the journal Human Brain Mapping.

[McParadigm]

"We're, uh....we're just gonna.....keep trying this out. For a few more....years. Yeah."

[McParadigm]

Really, though, most of the people I've known who are into that stuff will wave off a study like that anyway. Their beliefs about the experience border on magic.

[bodysnatcher]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1861214

[broken iris]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1861214

Surely actions don't have consequences.

[Jorge]

Look at his fucking t-shirt

[Heathen]

It's chud with a fake stache.

[LetMeSleep]

Well what is he supposed to do? The guy refused his noodles.

This made my day. Thankyou Sarge.

It's chud with a fake stache.

Apparently they did it spicier and better in 2000. It's like they've forgotten some ingredients these days.

[Jorge]

It's chud with a fake stache.

HAHAHAHAHA

[Norah]

Fuck you guys.

[Whitey McTeeth]

I don't see it.

[Whitey McTeeth]

Nevermind.

[McParadigm]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1861214

Surely actions don't have consequences.

"You bought marijuana. There's no way you're capable of handling the finely nuanced work of a professional security guard."

[Whitey McTeeth]

He might use his standard issued pepper spray on a burrito or something.

[Norah]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1861214

Surely actions don't have consequences.

"You bought marijuana. There's no way you're capable of handling the finely nuanced work of a professional security guard."

If he came in drunk they'd just send him home in a cab and dock him a days pay.

[ABNorman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world ... .html?_r=0