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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by blululu on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:58AM (#28432827)
Your mileage will almost certainly vary. It changes people in interesting and unpredictable ways. Sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse. I know people who became much more grounded through their use of psychedelics. Others much less so.
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by ipnon on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:10AM (#28432899)
Some changes are predictable. For instance most people will stop abusing drugs after strong psilocybin trips. See the work of Rolland Griffiths.
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by blululu on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:32AM (#28433036)
Most but not all. The opposite trend is less common but totally possible from personal observations. saying that a psychiatric procedure will result in specific changes would be stretching the truth from probably to necessarily. The first result I found in Google related to Griffiths is here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31084460/ They are doing an anonymous online self selected reports and they find a strong effect but also 17% do not appear to exhibit the trend.
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by ipnon on Monday September 06, 2021 @09:42AM (#28433535)
For some perspective, this is the current state of the art pharmacological treatment for substance abuse disorder, as in no other available treatment has a stronger effect.
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