• untorquer@quokk.au
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      8 days ago

      They should be accessible to everyone and destigmatized for sure.

      Not everyone wants to do them though, and those people shouldn’t.

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      8 days ago

      Except pilots, people driving vehicles, surgeons, EMTs, and quite a lot of other people, not to mention those of us who have a rough time on psychedelics.

      Nothing suits everyone, and even for those who benefit from it, there’s an appropriate time and place.

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        8 days ago

        Idk I’ve found shrooms to really help with my depression. Obviously with mental illness you should be careful about it more so than usual though

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          A close friend of mine, in his late 70s, was experiencing increasingly uniform, flat moods. This happens sometime to older people, due to neurotransmitter depletion. He microdosed on shrooms for a month and was back to his old, vibrant self for the better part of a year afterwards.

          Another single-person study, but I give this anecdata a bit more weight because I know the guy well. If that’s a placebo effect, I still want some.