Re:Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms'
by naasking on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:30AM
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> It can trigger deep psychosis which can take people years to come back from, or even permanently 'break' personalities and make people worse human beings.
No link found between psychedelics and psychosis:
https://www.nature.com/news/no-link-found-between-psychedeli...
Re:Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms'
by deevolution on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:40AM
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Happened to a family member. Very upsetting and unfortunate.
Re:Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms'
by naasking on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:06AM
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I'm sorry to hear that, but you honestly have no idea if the psychedelic actually caused it. Any number of environmental factors could be at play. No doubt that they will cause issues in some folks, but as the link I provided shows, there's no reason to think they will cause it at any greater rate than other factors we encounter daily.
Re:Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms'
by felix_nagaand on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:45AM
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Could be related to other drug use. Most trippers experiment with other stuff. Coke, alcohol, math and marijuana all can trigger psychosis.
My opinion is that those people could end up there via different ways (alcoholism, mental shocks like car crash or other mental traumas), but this is definitely one way.
It is extremely powerful substance and can take you very far from common reality, not something most folks are prepared for. I know I was not, and having every single aspect that makes me me taken away, both on physical and personality level was by huge margin the most intense experience of my life.
I believe it should be legal (maybe with some huge warnings/education about potential consequences), but from all I've heard LSD is just synthetic variant of the same - why would that be illegal then? If that is OK, what about mescaline, that's also just a plant? Ayahusca? Cocaine is also a plant extract, and so is heroine (with some chemistry on top of that, but coca itself has quite an effect on its own). A bit slippery slope...