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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by PaulHoule on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:49AM (#36432140)
The Netherlands has struggled to commercialize a safe psychedelic.

LSD is not so dangerous per se if you are in good hands. It does leave you discombobulated for 12 hours or so and put somebody into a strange and sketchy city like Amsterdam and some of them will get into trouble. Mushrooms are a little better because the duration is shorter but they still didn't find the problems acceptable. They tried the stimulating and hallucinatory 2C-T2 which is somehow entirely non-cosmic but I think even that failed market testing.

After all these years a pastor I know is providing psilocybin therapy for the terminally ill which they are doing in a tightly controlled

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_effect

environment and of course accompanying people for the whole tip.

Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by cmh89 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:38AM (#36432825)
Amsterdam already has a problem with alcohol getting people in trouble. Millions of people take mushrooms every year with no issues.

The problem is we have such a high bar for pyschedelics that isn't applied to other recreational drugs.

Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by totallywrong on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:36PM (#36434753)
> put somebody into a strange and sketchy city like Amsterdam and some of them will get into trouble

Funny you say that because I couldn't have wished for a better trip than roaming Amsterdam with my friends when I tried mushrooms all those years ago. The canals, the architecture.. it was a fairy tale and I remember it dearly.

Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by PaulHoule on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:27PM (#36436593)
I remember getting bitched out for wandering around stoned in Het Vondelpark.
Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by andelink on Saturday June 24, 2023 @04:36AM (#36456750)
Was just about to say this. My shrooms trip in Amsterdam was nothing short of magical. Such a colorful, vibrant city. It was beautiful