"I'm not out of my mind, I study English!"

Once you read this, you will be even more delighted about being students of English language. Being bilingual does not only help you in matters of job opportunities or being able to travel around the world, but also contributes to your intellectual wellbeing, for the reason that knowing a second language delays the symptoms of mental disorders such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. Even by acquiring a few conceptions from another language you have started increasing the activity of your brain.

As the Canadian psychologist Ellen Bialystok, a distinguished professor from York University, Toronto declares, being able to speak two or more languages brings advantages to cognitive processes and the increase in performance of one of the most essential areas of the brain, which is the executive control system; this mechanism makes us able to focus in relevant elements and data and ignore the banal details, along with give attention to more than one thing at a time and move on freely from one to another.

Children who practise more than one language and use their L₂ frequently can determine the main concerns of their tasks and multiple assignments more easily than those who only speak their mother tongue. Afterwards, the superior performance of the executive system leads to a better cognitive operation at elderly ages; one hundred and ten out of two hundred and one patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s who were examined by scientists from the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, Canada were bilingual and those were the ones whose symptoms took even five years longer to emerge.

Taking this into account, do you feel that it is in fact an honour for us to be able to study a second—or third—language?

Why is Ibogaine illegal in the US?

Heroin is an illegal drug commonly used by young people in the US. It is considered to be dangerous because of its side effects and is very addictive. 

Ibogaine hydrochloride is a naturally occurring psychoactive substance that has been proved to cure heroin addiction. The reason for which only few people know about this is simple: drug companies don't want to produce it due to the patent has expired. 

Ibogaine works within 48 hours and without withdrawal symptoms, it seems utopic but it's not. Pharmaceutical companies know about the effectiveness of this alkaloid, but they refuse to produce it because it means less money. Drug companies earn more by selling less effective medications than by selling ibogaine. 

If ibogaine is so effective, why is it illegal in the US? Because the patent expired, so no drug company can make a profit of it. No one will pay for ibogaine to go for FTE (full time equivalent) trials. 

Obviously this is wrong! Hundreds of lives could be saved, diseases such as hepatitis B and HIV could be prevented if these people decided to do what's best for society. 

The TV show "Law and Order Svu" dedicated an episode to this issue in 2009, becoming one of the first programs in making this alkaloid known. That's how I found out about this.

Others have already started to disclose about ibogaine, what are you waiting for?