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self_made_human  C'est la vie  2d ago (open.substack.com)   785 thread views

A Depressed Shrink Tries Shrooms

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This is a first-person account from a psychiatry resident (me) enrolling in a clinical trial of psilocybin. Somewhere between a trip report, an overview of the pharmacology of psilocybin, and a review of the clinical evidence suggesting pronounced benefits for depression.

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Good post but bruh…

Frankly: I hate all this clinical trial bullshit around psychedelics and mushrooms. They definitely have anti depressive effects, but anyone that does drugs knows that the set/setting of these clinical trials is absolutely awful and retarded. You’re tripping and they just have you watching ig reels and tv?

Take 2 gs of real mushrooms and go for a forest walk and think about life. You’ll actually have some real insights about what’s making you that way. Treating these substances like just another pharma substance isn’t the way.

Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity!

Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity!

I see people out there getting absolutely wasted on kratom, acting like lunatics, wasting huge amounts of money on it, not washing, being aggressive, getting in fights. Maybe drugs should be legal for people who are not idiots.

Yeah same with alcohol bro. How many people die from drunk driving every year?

Alcohol is way too widespread to really ban, in addition relatively easy to make at home.

Cannabis is even easier tho...

It's pretty hard to beat, "I left some fruit (that I'm legally allowed to buy and have) in the cabinet for too long."

"I dropped some seeds in the bush someplace" isn't bad...

It's much harder to explain how you legally acquired said seeds. Especially with the effort that it takes to get the kind of cannabis people want (not talking any bullshit about roadside trash grass).

"Roadside trash grass" is about the equivalent of the Jungle Juice you are talking about -- making any kind of decent alcohol at home takes a lot more effort than growing good weed -- which is basically just gardening with extra steps.

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