Psilocybin shows success in medical trials

Re:Psilocybin shows success in medical trials by sneak on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @04:49PM (#5215906)

psilocybin != LSD

The modern study written about in this article uses psilocybin, not LSD.

They are entirely different substances, with different effects.

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Re:Psilocybin shows success in medical trials by northband on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @05:06PM (#5215988)

I completely agree. I think a common misconception is all psychedelics are the same - but last different times. Definitely not the case. They may share common characteristics but definitely have a personality of their own ;-)

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Re:Psilocybin shows success in medical trials by raverbashing on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @05:03PM (#5215979)

Interesting how they're using synthetic psilocybin, maybe for control purposes, but I thought it would be easier to obtain it from the original sources

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Re:Psilocybin shows success in medical trials by gnosis on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @05:40PM (#5216198)

Alicia Danforth, research assistant to Dr. Charles Grob (who ran the psilocybin research study mentioned in this article) goes in to detail as to their reasons for using synthetic psilocybin in this recording of her talk at the Burning Man festival.[1]

The talk is also well worth hearing for the other details she gives of this important research.

[1] - http://www.matrixmasters.net/archive/Playalogues/131-Danfort...

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