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Makes sense as long as it works, a lot of people are not prepared to trip balls anyway, even as part of a treatment. Ketamine (for the same purpose, which is increasingly a thing) has the same issue.
Never done drugs but depression is fucking horrible and debilitating. If the price to pay for putting depression on hiatus for a year or two is tripping balls, sign me the fuck up right now. I swear the first second I am retired (and thus can't get fired for drugs) I am investigating one of these types of treatments. But my understanding is micro dosing is generally the treatment? Idk.
Fun fact, a lot of employers don't test for mushrooms. If it's a 5 panel test, they don't test for it at all.
Fun fact, it's legal to purchase spores and grow kits in the US, since they don't contain any psilocybin.
I've thought about trying to grow some, it doesn't look hard, but just like all things that look easy there is likely a lot of underlying info I'd have to find or learn the hard way... and right now I'm trying to keep from being that guy who has a bunch of half-finished projects.
It’s easy. If you’re going to worry about anything it’s the legality of it, the chances of getting caught, and what might happen to you if you were to some how get caught.
Nothing will be worse for your depression than dealing with the legal ramifications of a schedule 1 possession and/or cultivation charge.
Yeah that's the OTHER reason I haven't done it. I make decent money and have a loving family, and I'm not really wanting to burn all that down to grow mushrooms.
It's really extremely easy. You get these premade boxes that you unpack and set into a corner and leave there for a couple of weeks. Some other boxes might need to water them first. It's really easy and a nice experience growing them.
You see, this is the other reason I want to try. This year my wife and I planted vegetables in our garden, and it was so cool to have all this growing stuff that we could eat.
I agree and have literally done that exact thing for that exact purpose... but not everyone does.
My point was just that having a drug that doesn't require tripping balls in a tightly controlled setting is a good idea. Not everyone is up for it (personality, circumstances) and any trip has risks, you need monitoring which takes trained manpower etc. - it's worth it while we have no other treatment, but it isn't very practical for a bunch of reasons.
Microdosing would be dependent on the chemical.