-Bill Hicks
There are lots of ways you could try LSD tho.
People that think psychedelics are evil are just closed minded people that probably need psychedelics in their life. You probably don't want to pay attention to what they think. If you're genuinely looking for healing there are plenty of people that practice psychedelic assisted therapy around the world that could help you take those first steps. It's underground, but not terribly hard to find with some online searching.
MM120 is seeking FDA approval and there are many more in late stage trials for GAD.
The Ship of Theseus argument should never be used to justify retaining mental dysfunction. "What if I can't paint sunflowers if I stop being suicidal?" is a question; more decades of Van Gogh paintings would inarguably have been better.
You got the chance for a more chill life compared to obviously more stressed one and you threw it away as 'too nice won't bother trying it'.
But also I get what you mean, even if its not totally rational.
Weed is better, cheaper, safer, and more diverse that it has been in my lifetime (and I happily smoked it while it was illegal also).
Legal weed has been an enormous success (not that there was ever much doubt that it was going to be).
Your local closet grower isn’t giving you a terpene percentage breakdown and guarantee of no laces or a return policy
This is actual medicine, not hobby baking or ceramics
It's not the drugs that people with high anxiety need, it's people giving them attention and caring for them.
These experiments need a control where they just take the drug and they don't have medical staff around.
If only there were experts on the ground, designing the experiment, who could plan to avoid such interfering variables.
How do figure the boost and stabilize part for a patient? Do they take samples of neurotransmitters in the spinal fluid before and after and looking for neurotransmitter concentrations?
Inwards. Imagination, media, substances, meditation, solitude.
Yes, drugs are amazing.
Interestingly, the paper only lists the following adverse effects: visual perceptual changes, nausea, and headache. Given that the patients in the double-blind study were those who suffer from moderate to severe Generalized Anxiety Disorder, I could imagine some significant anxiety in the 200 µg active group!
The paper only reports significant results at the 100 µg and 200 µg dose level, not less, which seems like another strike against psychedelic microdosing. The pharmaceutical industry would love to find a magic psychedelic drug which doesn't result in the psychedelic experience, but it seems like that experience is the key to their mental impact.
These are well established and lots of research is going on as to why psychedelics seem to put us into a critical period.
Lsd, psylocybin and mdma all seem to do it. Peyote does too.
While in the critical period, usually a week to 3 months, it is very important to surround oneself with what they want to focus on.
But if you catch me in a get-together setting and we share a beer together, I'd say: "on the one hand you have a well-determined profitable path in the SSRIs, and on the other hand you have people giving LSD doses away for free to each other. One sits well, one doesn't. One has to wonder why the people aren't giving away SSRIs for free if they work so well, right?"
I have never heard a reasonable argument.
I'd argue that the surprise is rather on this: "In clinical trials, a single dose significantly outperformed standard treatments, offering hope to those who have found little relief elsewhere."
I think you're unclear on the meaning of "derivate".
My understanding is that, today in the US (and other markets so far as I know), it is far easier to know a pharmacist than a genuine LSD chemist, though I am several years out of that particular market.
Would be nice to know there's been a resurgence of access to ergot via improvement in Claviceps growth or some nifty novel synthesis we didn't have a few years ago.
What's the difference between a derivate and a derivative?
(I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know)
Yeah....
> Side effects were generally mild or moderate and included hallucinations, visual distortions, nausea, and headache. It's important to note, these were more prevalent using the highest dosage -- which we will not be using since it was found to be no more effective.
1. Low volume cohort i.e. 40 participants per dose group
2. Industry sponsored study i.e. MindMed.
3. Think about it; how do you blind psychedelics? It's pretty obvious you're on one when you take it.
I thought it was pretty cool, since the control group will still "feel" something and potentially think "oh this is it" but since the effects of stimulants like Ritalin have been more studied, the researchers can easily account for it.
