Magic Mushrooms Alleviated Severe Depression in 100% of "Untreatable" Patients
A hallucinogenic chemical found in magic mushrooms has successfully lifted severe depression in previously untreatable patients.
Scientists at Imperial College London induced intense psychedelic trips in 12 people using high doses of the banned substance psilocybin.
A week after the experience all the volunteers were depression-free, and three months later five still had no symptoms of the condition.
Published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, the study welcomes the results as “promising, but not completely compelling".
Granted, the sample sizes are small, but WTF? You just practically CURED severe depression in almost half of the subjects, alleviating a condition (that was previously considered "untreatable") for 100% of them. How is that "not completely compelling"?
I'll tell you why not. Because they still don't want people popping boomers.
The rest of the story is here. Worth a read:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/17/magic-mushrooms-lifts-severe-depression-in-trial
Another report: Magic Mushrooms Outperform Dangerous SSRI Drugs in New Study on Depression
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/05/magic-mushrooms-outperform-dangerous-ssri-drugs-in-new-study-on-depression.html
I've been taking some on and off for two years now, and it's definitely lifting me out of a life-long fog. I think it's easy to get confused with these substances unless one is open to changing and letting go in a very fundamental way.
MDMA has also been shown to have incredibly life-changing effects for people with PTSD. All of the psychoactive drugs the government has made illegal are starting to show revolutionary medical benefits. If marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, Iboga, and the countless other illegal drugs with these HUGE medicinal benefits aren't at least moved out of schedule one, there needs to be some serious protest. This is yet another example of the government withholding life-saving treatments in the name of "safety", except instead of studying the treatments in their usual overbearing regulatory framework (the FDA), the government is throwing the patients in prison. Simply ridiculous in my mind.
MDMA for PTSD makes so much sense. Best to make the most of it though, MDMA is not all that great for nerve cells.
Well in the MAPS study they only took it two or three times and they were done so I'd say it's pretty negligible for curing PTSD lol. And that ice-cream scoop study people always cite for nerve damage was retracted because they "accidentally" used straight meth. It's actually not that bad for you if you know what's neuroprotective against it, and I'm sure the therapists who would be administering MDMA know all that stuff. Still wouldn't advise taking it all the time or anything though lol
I agree with you above.. Here is something though:
Except in my experience most people including the ones certified medially, ignore or really basic stuff when it comes to long-term safety or sustainability... It is really our jobs to form our own opinions.
sounds great, but where i found that "magic" mushrooms?
That's the shitty thing, that the governments make it illegal when it clearly has some benefit to people. Sure, the stuff is very potent, but why ban something which holds so much benefit and promise? Native Americans knew of its importance and therefore, using hallucinogens was a ritual in some tribes. When the Spanish came to Mexico and the Southwest region of modern-day North America, the Catholic churches not only banned use of magic mushrooms; the penalty for using them was death. And that's where the government/institutional control started.
SilkRoad?
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Those look like class-B spores. Shroomery.org screens there advertisers to pay attention to the banners. Get directions from shroomery.org, a search engine will rank the good ones up top for you. I think the easiest thing to do is buy a syringe with BTC (about $30) from one source. Next, to get started, get some rice or corn prepared Mushroom Substrate Jars from ebay (also steril). In the future, you will have these jars (correct size and shape) and a pressure cooker so you can just just reload them with organic corn and re-purchase another sterile syringe. Look for direction on shroomery on how to Inoculate the jars in a oven with the door open.
This is probably the least amount of work you can do. It takes probably 3 months to grow them. You should have a food dehydrator handy and put the temp on the lowest setting. This may leave you with 6 months to a year's worth.
Overall this should be a reasonably safe approach. You're not leaving much of a paper trail by using BTC to purchase the spores. Buying spores means you don't need a clean vent hood or room. Once you get the jars you don't need to keep buying them from ebay if you find a good method to re-cook the substrate in the jars (pressure cooker, etc) leaving them steril inside. It is actually very easy and a great way to practice patients.
Friend of my did this. Beautiful experiment and journey. Personally I would never have the patience :D