Geeky Stats About Magic Mushrooms
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Geeky Stats About Magic Mushrooms
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#2I wonder why won't some starving poor tiny pacific island legalize [some] drugs. They could probably make good money from drug tourism.
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#3Seems like there has been renewed interest in psychedelics in the geek community. I'd recommend that everyone read Markoff's "What the Dormouse Said" for the history of geeks and drugs.
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#4I wonder why won't some starving poor tiny pacific island legalize [some] drugs. They could probably make good money from drug tourism.
IMF and World Bank regulations maybe?
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#5About the selection protocol - it sounds like at least some of the participants in the study were in to yoga before the experiment. Those kinds of people usually already have a spiritual streak or will at least be more open to it.
It would be interesting to see this experiment repeated with more "mainstream" subjects or something like 30 Wall St bankers.
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#7If psilocybin was unknown and a pharmaceutical company discovered it along with the "appropriate" dose and published this study, their stock would be worth approximately the entire western world's GDP tomorrow
Except... it wouldn't because these people only required 4 doses, each a month apart, and then had better results 14 months later than every "take daily for life" psych drug on the market today
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#8About the selection protocol - it sounds like at least some of the participants in the study were in to yoga before the experiment. Those kinds of people usually already have a spiritual streak or will at least be more open to it. It would be interesting to see this experiment repeated with more "mainstream" subjects or something like 30 Wall St bankers.
Apparently Herman Kahn spent his LSD trip finding the best way to bomb China. So there might be something to be said for the theory that it "intensifies" your existing personality/interests.
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#9Hope not to sound like a extreme liberal, but a lot of the highly illegal hard drugs, aren't nearly as hazardous or addicting as they made out to be and can have positive effects - IF used right. That includes psilocybin, MDMA, THC, DMT, LSD and whatnot. Others are clearly toxic and very unhealthy, like crack or meth. It's all matter of being well informed about the effect and right use of the drug, as well as a having clean products. The one thing that makes them dangerous is the potential of miss use is very high.
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#10If psilocybin was unknown and a pharmaceutical company discovered it along with the "appropriate" dose and published this study, their stock would be worth approximately the entire western world's GDP tomorrow Except... it wouldn't because these people only required 4 doses, each a month apart, and then had better results 14 months later than every "take daily for life" psych drug on the market today
It still would. It's just that other pharma companies would be in the closet.