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Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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Maybe not the user experience you're intending, but the The Vaults of Erowid is a decent start.

One of the best and most unique web sites I've ever visited also. It's 90's classic internet but nothing has come along to do things it does better.

Reading that as a teenager is what got me interested in psychedelics in the first place. It's great.

Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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That's a justification for your vindictiveness (which I did not ask nor expect you to justify.) I am suggesting that you recognize your vindictiveness for what it is, not that you deny yourself feelings of vindictiveness.

I don't exactly understand your obsession with "vindictiveness". I'm not saying we should have a policy of rounding these people up and throwing them in prison. This is my emotional response, not a proposed policy response. They, however, literally did support a policy of rounding people up and throwing them in prison.

Why do you say that I'm obsessed with vindictiveness? Note that I am not the GP, I left only two comments concerning it. I happen to think that your feelings vindictiveness are justified. I'm just saying you shouldn't deceive yourself into thinking your feelings of vindictiveness are something else. There is nothing wrong with an emotional response and I've not insinuated otherwise. Feeling vindictive is healthy, but self-deception harms yourself. I hope my position is now clear to you.

Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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I'm native indigenous from Oaxaca, Mexico, home of several sacred ceremonies with magic mushrooms and other plants from millennia. I'd like to share that our Native Nations do not give permission for scientific research of magic mushrooms outside our culture. This is not an egoistic stand, but it is for your own safety. Sacred plants on pharma and marketing industries hands will only create more damage than good. If you are interested to learn about sacred plants you must learn respect from native nations and come, live here and share for a time, then a request to research can be asked to the community.

Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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Links involving MDMA, LSD, and shrooms often get upvoted to the top of HN. Is there anywhere to read the consensus on news, both legal and scientific, on what’s the current status of psychedelics and recreational drugs worldwide?

Psychedelics are sometimes recreational but they can do more.

Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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>allowing them to possess and use psilocybin for personal training without fear of prosecution under the country's drug laws. There are literally hundreds of websites that will mail you magic mushroom spores, live magic mushroom mycelium, magic mushroom growing kits where you just add water and wait, and dried magic mushrooms. I have never heard of any of them so much as being hassled let alone prosecuted for selling…

You can get prison time for growing them in the US, depending on the state (spores are legal here too, no psilocybin).

Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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Are there accounts of what it's like to use psilocybin in a clinical setting? I'm imagining tripping in a therapist's office. Doesn't sound very pleasant.

Sounds terrible but I guess better than being mentally ill if it works!

Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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I'm native indigenous from Oaxaca, Mexico, home of several sacred ceremonies with magic mushrooms and other plants from millennia. I'd like to share that our Native Nations do not give permission for scientific research of magic mushrooms outside our culture. This is not an egoistic stand, but it is for your own safety. Sacred plants on pharma and marketing industries hands will only create more damage than good. If…

I think these things grow in many more places than yours.

Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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I just hope the older generations who adamantly and mindlessly insisted that "all drugs are bad" live long enough to feel the deep shame they deserve for causing so much harm and preventing so much joy and much-needed help to so many millions and millions of people.

Why do you wish shame on others? We should forgive others if possible.

Let's start by forgiving every non-violent drug offender rotting in prisons throughout the US. Then we can forgive those who put them there.

Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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Oh Canada. Where the natural way is illegal, but the synthetic way with designer psilocybin analogues is totally legal!

> designer psilocybin analogues Is that what 'dried mushrooms' means in Canada?

Probably not... hopefully not.

Re: Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

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This is probably the most vapid argument I've ever seen on HN. Great job team

It's not vapid and his anger is righteous. Please realize that the cohort of people we're talking about have supported policies of enslaving "others" through laws for decades and that they continue to do this today. These policies have and are destroying communities, families, careers, lives, and to some extent, the fabric of the nation. It's also not a coincidence these are the same people that just lost an election…

I was referring to the entire discussion
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