From: rsw@therandymon.com   
      
   On 2017-04-21, JAB  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 01:31:02 +0000 (UTC), RS Wood   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > A person's genetics/diet/etc determines their brain's   
   > "infrastructure," and researchers can't "rewire it."  Analogous to   
   > muscular dystrophies, where "abnormal genes (mutations) lead to muscle   
   > degeneration."  Hence, you can't fix what's "broke," but these   
   > researchers seem to think new insights may bring about new treatments,   
   > someday.   
      
   I was reading the other day that that's what did in Sid Barrett of Pink   
   Floyd - overuse of psychedelics basically fried his brain, and he never came   
   back.  The drugs basically made him a mental/emotional cripple.  Too bad.   
      
      
      
   > On a different note:  Since early 1950s, we had the "Jerry Lewis   
   > Thanksgiving Party for MDA," and then starting in 1966, "The Jerry   
   > Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon," which raised monies for research and   
   > for affected kids.  To my awareness, no "cures" were found. I envision   
   > the same with LSD "research."   
      
   I remember that.  What we would need now is a Jerry *Garcia* Thanksgiving   
   Party for LSD, ha ha.  (Rest in Peace).   
      
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