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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

5-HT2A serotonin agonists like psilocybin are known to induce neuroplastic changes - this is most evident to users in the form of rapid cognitive schema formation (since we actually experience that happening), but it stands to reason that it happens throughout the nervous system.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45695149_The_Neurobiology_of_Psychedelic_Drugs_Implications_for_the_Treatment_of_Mood_Disorders

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.724606/full

It's definitely unfortunate that there was such a backlash against this research in the 60s/70s.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Timothy Leary just check out this theory he sold acid for the FBI

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Yeah maybe the cia shouldn’t of used them in mind control experiments. Ah well

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I firmly believe that more people should be micro dosing mushrooms for therapeutic purposes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Macro dosing is necessary at this juncture.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago

Wow guys it’s 1970

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I firmly believe we should have more doctors deciding things like this as opposed to random people on the internet psychedelics are fucking dope, but they can also be used as a totalitarian tool. Never forget that Albert Hoffman had some sketchy ass esoteric nazi connections :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This thread went zero to Nazi real quick.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Said the guy who calls himself a doctor who’s making the world better one genetic experiment at a time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

My business is life itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Creepy and weird

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

thank god its illegal then!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Literally this, until it stops being some weird tech bro solution for society’s problems

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago

🎶I met jeffery Epstein at a psychedelic party🎶