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Re:Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being,... by ttonkytonk on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:09AM (#23347502)
They're most certainly illegal in the U.S.A.!

I did a lot of street acid as a teenager and it caused me a lot of problems it seems. Only did some half decent psilocybin shrooms once, more recently (but years ago), but I liked the fact that I actually came down, acid seemed to just linger and linger long after the main trip was over.

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Re:Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being,... by lame-robot-hoax on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:39AM (#23348041)
Psilocybin mushrooms are decriminalized in Denver.
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Re:Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being,... by trabant00 on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:49AM (#23347764)
> I did a lot of street acid as a teenager and it caused me a lot of problems it seems

Can you expand on that?

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Re:Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being,... by ttonkytonk on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:27AM (#23348314)
One year I did about 40 hits of acid, often multiple hits at a time, and started stuttering and just felt like I had less going on mentally. It really seemed like I had permanent brain damage. I'm not sure exactly what was going on, there were definitely extenuating factors (e.g. family dysfunction, depression etc.) but it took years for me to recover.
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