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Re:Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a “waking dream,”... by ridgeguy on Friday July 04, 2014 @09:19PM (#7990750)
This is of interest to me because my wife is disabled by chronic refractory migraine, a close relation to cluster headaches.

Stories like this

http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2011/06/lsd-allevi...

make me deeply regret the current political/conceptual barriers to research on psychotropic compounds. I think we're missing opportunities to help quite a lot of people.

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Re:Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a “waking dream,”... by contingencies on Friday July 04, 2014 @10:49PM (#7990875)
Sorry to hear that. AFAIK it's legal in most places to buy spores and grow your own, and dosage is relatively easy to control. Maybe time for a mycoculture project?
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Re:Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a “waking dream,”... by llllllllllll on Saturday July 05, 2014 @05:00AM (#7991399)
It's legal in the US (in all but three states I believe), because the spores do not contain psylocin/psylocybin. Once you start to grow them though, you could be charged with possession of a controlled substance.

Don't let that stop you though GP! It's a fun project and very satisfying to see your mushrooms finally sprouting up after a month or two of work. The risk of getting caught is low, and even if you somehow did, it would probably still be worth the penalty if they have a positive effect on your wife's headaches!

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