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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Stan says she tried different therapies but nothing really helped until she found magic mushrooms โ€” which are illegal to produce, possess and sell in Canada without special permission.

Stan's experience with microdosing psilocybin is a powerful anecdotal story, but what does the science say about the practice as a potential mental health treatment?

Once a week they either get a microdose of psilocybin or a placebo, and then Petranker and his team put them through a series of tests to determine if they experience an improvement in their mood.

Zeina Beidas, the lead research assistant, says microdosing is so trendy right now that many people in the general public simply believe it works.

Anecdotally, I see young people in particular coming in after using powerful hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin, and leading to really, really negative mental health outcomes, like even a psychotic episode."

Andrina Stan, who graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Toronto, continues to use psilocybin, but she urges others thinking of microdosing to do it safely.


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