Re:Psilocybin 'promising' for depression
by giantg2 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:21AM
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I'm pretty sure there were formal studies decades ago showing potential use and positive outcomes (I think Stamets books from the 90s reference some formal studies, but i could be wrong). But like a lot of medical research, it never progressed to a market state. I think that's especially true in this case due to the legal classification around it.
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Re:Psilocybin 'promising' for depression
by mellavora on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:35AM
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I hear that LSD made the cover of Time magazine 5 times as a wonder drug, curing depression etc. That was pre-1970.
Yeah, they were able to bring LSD into therapeutic use before it was essentially outlawed. I believe there was one dominant practice in California that became well known as specialists and there were articles written about them and the celebrities that were treated there.