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Psilocybin is basically an antidepressant, and anti-anxiety drug. Pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in keeping it illegal bcz they can't make money off it. You can literally find psilocybin on cow poo.
Except that it's totally not either of those things. In fact, it can sometimes cause panic attacks if taken ill advisedly.
Psilocybin and other psychedelics reveal to us a lot of the inner workings of our minds. That can help people to correct unhealthy thinking when they are willing to do the work. That can lead to long term reduction of anxiety and depression, but only through addressing root causes.
Lol, I'm not doing that! But good info...
Read up my dude
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2022/02/psilocybin-treatment-for-major-depression-effective-for-up-to-a-year-for-most-patients-study-shows
From the article you linked.
So, essentially what I said. There is a difference between an anti-anxiety or anti-depressive drug and a drug that's useful in therapy to treat anxiety or depression.
Anti-depressive and anti-anxiety drugs function on their own, but only so long as the drug is active in your system. Psychedelics allow self reflection to enhance traditionally non-drug therapies. They can even lead to the exact opposite results when used in an improper mind set or setting.
Still - take with care. Lost one friend to psilos & Lsd (he couldn’t adjust to reality anymore), another one lost to alcohol and the last one for all the other mixed shit. Waiting for the fourth lost soul.
Not advocating being sober - I‘m older than 40 and happy that weed is legal in Germany now and sometimes a smiley pill. I‘m just saying - take it with care.
unless you want to grow them yourself, then they require the most sterile environment
in the wild tho? yeah cow shit will do :)
Not particularly sterile, just sanitary. Grain starter needs to be pasteurized, trich needs to be removed from bulk spawn.
I know lemmy hates reddit but r/unclebens will get anyone on the road to growing their own scooby snax. (Legal in Colorado, check local codes and laws, no refunds under any circumstances, do not bitch to me if you get busted)
in most places it's legal to buy and have the mycelium itself but it's illegal to let it grow
so many online shops that very clearly are not for scientists with a lil disclaimer somewhere saying "please do not make drugs out of this, this is purely for looking at through a microscope for all the amateur mycologists :))))"