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   From: grimblecrumble870@gmail.com   
      
   186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:   
   > https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/09/24/psychedelic-therapi   
   s-are-coming-to-europe-but-face-barriers-before-reaching-patients   
   >   
   > Prescriptions for psychedelic drugs are closer than ever for   
   > European patients grappling with complex mental health   
   > problems – but there are still a few thorny hurdles to   
   > contend with.   
   >   
   > For decades, psychedelics like LSD, magic mushrooms, and   
   > MDMA (ecstasy or molly) have been known primarily as party   
   > drugs that elicit hallucinogenic states, after studies   
   > on their therapeutic potential ground to a halt in the   
   > 1970s in both Europe and North America.   
   >   
   > . . .   
   >   
   >   The neo-Puritans will scream to the very end.   
   >   
   >   HOWEVER ... DO note that most of this 'medicine'   
   >   is gonna be mostly hippie-dippy inspired HYPE and   
   >   will NOT be better than many other approaches for   
   >   most people.   
   >   
   >   There's always the Magic Med of the day - and it's   
   >   almost always bullshit.   
      
   I mean, I'm no specialist in this, but I could see how these drugs could   
   possibly fix a problem. Microdosing (using very small amounts of these   
   drugs) has been done by hippies for decades, and I think scientists started   
   taking notes from them.   
      
      
      
   According to the paper's abstract, microdosers were more likely to have   
   mental health problems, but exhibited lower levels of anxiety, depression   
   and stress than non-microdosers.   
      
   It seems like an effective thing to me. However, I do acknowledge that more   
   research is probably needed.   
      
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