I believe Oregon recently legalized psychedelic mushrooms. You can always grow your own too. You just have to find a source for spores or clones.Although, that would be considered illegal in just about every state.
Edit: Apparently, spores are legal to purchase in every US state, except California, Idaho and Georgia. https://www.leafly.com/news/health/how-to-buy-shroom-spores
I’m speaking more personally/anecdotally but it can really shift things around from a high 2nd plateau - 4th on. I haven’t done a 4th plateau cuz it scares the fuck out of me but there you have it
Edit: there seems to be a lot of work being done(+ its very in vogue right now/fashionable) to use ketamine to treat depression. Ketamine is also an anaesthetic and NMDA-antagonist at supra-therapeutic doses…
Stan says she tried different therapies but nothing really helped until she found magic mushrooms — which are illegal to produce, possess and sell in Canada without special permission.
Stan’s experience with microdosing psilocybin is a powerful anecdotal story, but what does the science say about the practice as a potential mental health treatment?
Once a week they either get a microdose of psilocybin or a placebo, and then Petranker and his team put them through a series of tests to determine if they experience an improvement in their mood.
Zeina Beidas, the lead research assistant, says microdosing is so trendy right now that many people in the general public simply believe it works.
Anecdotally, I see young people in particular coming in after using powerful hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin, and leading to really, really negative mental health outcomes, like even a psychotic episode."
Andrina Stan, who graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Toronto, continues to use psilocybin, but she urges others thinking of microdosing to do it safely.
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From what I’ve heard recent years, you don’t get to just (micro)dose up and see what happens. Guidance is needed for there to be actual healing potential. Those of us who have no such trained or even sympathetic person around to help would be taking a big risk. Even having an untrained friend around, you’d just be taking a holiday from your depression and not really treating it.
I can see that, it supposedly builds new synaptic connections. For myself somebody pointed out if your are walking and an old person is walking slow in front of you, or a person turns and bumps into you unaware, you don’t swear and yell and try to hit them, we move out of their way and apologize to each other—why should being in a car change decency. And that was enough to trigger a new thinking pattern for me.
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Now how about in America?
I believe Oregon recently legalized psychedelic mushrooms. You can always grow your own too. You just have to find a source for spores or clones.
Although, that would be considered illegal in just about every state.Edit: Apparently, spores are legal to purchase in every US state, except California, Idaho and Georgia. https://www.leafly.com/news/health/how-to-buy-shroom-sporesremoved by mod
I wonder how many people have microscopes in their homes. 🫣
California and Oregon have places you can buy mushrooms.
However uncle bens tek is popular and easy. You innoculate your own spores and grow your own cubensis
I’m sorry, you’re lacking in freedom in America
Where is this magical place and how much more broke will I be?
DXM is also an interesting hard reset
Have you got more details on that? I wouldn’t classify it as a hard reset but I never did the crazy high doses.
I’m speaking more personally/anecdotally but it can really shift things around from a high 2nd plateau - 4th on. I haven’t done a 4th plateau cuz it scares the fuck out of me but there you have it
Edit: there seems to be a lot of work being done(+ its very in vogue right now/fashionable) to use ketamine to treat depression. Ketamine is also an anaesthetic and NMDA-antagonist at supra-therapeutic doses…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Stan says she tried different therapies but nothing really helped until she found magic mushrooms — which are illegal to produce, possess and sell in Canada without special permission.
Stan’s experience with microdosing psilocybin is a powerful anecdotal story, but what does the science say about the practice as a potential mental health treatment?
Once a week they either get a microdose of psilocybin or a placebo, and then Petranker and his team put them through a series of tests to determine if they experience an improvement in their mood.
Zeina Beidas, the lead research assistant, says microdosing is so trendy right now that many people in the general public simply believe it works.
Anecdotally, I see young people in particular coming in after using powerful hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin, and leading to really, really negative mental health outcomes, like even a psychotic episode."
Andrina Stan, who graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Toronto, continues to use psilocybin, but she urges others thinking of microdosing to do it safely.
The original article contains 1,403 words, the summary contains 173 words. Saved 88%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
This is science you can test yourself 😏
I would imagine any belief of efficacy is placebo. Now a heroic dose, that’s where the real change can happen.
Dr. Andrew Huberman’s podcast reviews the available literature here (in the section marked Psychedelics, after 1:34 or go to 1:37 for discussion of a specific study that’s also linked on the page): https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/understanding-and-conquering-depression
From what I’ve heard recent years, you don’t get to just (micro)dose up and see what happens. Guidance is needed for there to be actual healing potential. Those of us who have no such trained or even sympathetic person around to help would be taking a big risk. Even having an untrained friend around, you’d just be taking a holiday from your depression and not really treating it.
Well I invested in NUMI so it better f$king work!
LOL, cause it worked so well for pot stocks
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I can see that, it supposedly builds new synaptic connections. For myself somebody pointed out if your are walking and an old person is walking slow in front of you, or a person turns and bumps into you unaware, you don’t swear and yell and try to hit them, we move out of their way and apologize to each other—why should being in a car change decency. And that was enough to trigger a new thinking pattern for me.