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   From: 186282@ud0s4.net   
      
   On 9/25/24 1:14 AM, Grimble Crumble wrote:   
   > 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:   
   >> https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/09/24/psychedelic-therap   
   es-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.   
      
      
      Great - so they're *happy* fuckbrains .....   
      
      
   > It seems like an effective thing to me. However, I do acknowledge that more   
   > research is probably needed.   
      
      It's going to be *experience* at this point. In five   
      or ten years it will be concluded that 'shrooms and   
      such are no better - maybe worse - than other drugs   
      or approaches. BET on it.   
      
      I also expect some kind of public-health cataclysm   
      from 'Ozempic' and friends.   
      
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