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Geeky Stats About Magic Mushrooms
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#12If 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
They would presumably up the cost to compensate and you would do the equivalent of taking out a mortgage to partake.
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#13I wonder why won't some starving poor tiny pacific island legalize [some] drugs. They could probably make good money from drug tourism.
you mean they should copy the holland model :)
(technically the netherlands only decriminalized marihuana; practically use and possession of user quantities go nearly always unpunished)
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#14I wonder why won't some starving poor tiny pacific island legalize [some] drugs. They could probably make good money from drug tourism.
you mean they should copy the holland model :) (technically the netherlands only decriminalized marihuana; practically use and possession of user quantities go nearly always unpunished)
Yeah, except that they should allow psychoactive drugs too and allow selling (while disallowing taking those out of the country).
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#15I wonder why won't some starving poor tiny pacific island legalize [some] drugs. They could probably make good money from drug tourism.
They have, I went to the Gili Islands 2 years ago, no cars and they advertise legal mushroom shakes, also amazing island for diving (not in conjunction however!)
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#16There's a saying in drug development, that resonates in the context of this article: "the only difference between a drug and a poison... is the dose."
Psilocybin, marijuana, and LSD should be decriminalized and approved for medicinal use across the US. Control, quality, and safety would be much improved over the recreational and black market dealings we are left with today--thus, invalidating much of the "war on drugs" and taking a huge cost off the taxpayer and turning it into much needed revenue. Law enforcement would then be freed of significant resources to focus on the more insidious drugs (crack/heroin/meth).
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#17Hope 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 havi…
I might remove MDMA from that list -- the head researcher at Johns Hopkins for this study was interviewed about a similar 2006 study he did; it mentions that studies at John Hopkins have shown the potential for brain damage from MDMA ("certain nerve cells", anyway).
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/Griffiths...
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#18Hope 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 havi…
I might remove MDMA from that list -- the head researcher at Johns Hopkins for this study was interviewed about a similar 2006 study he did; it mentions that studies at John Hopkins have shown the potential for brain damage from MDMA ("certain nerve cells", anyway). http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/Griffiths...
Heh, it's a shame that that myth is still around. The study was actually retracted by the "scientist" himself after he discovered that his lab had administered methamphetamine instead of MDMA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retracted_article_on_toxicity_o...
However, MDMA should certainly not be taken more than a couple of times a year. It's not something you mess around with, we don't know enough about how it affects brain chemistry yet.
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#19You can purchase mushroom spores (in syringes) legally, get some simple grow medium, pack it in glass cans, sterilize that in oven, inject the medium with spores, and grow those mushrooms in a converted fish tank (they needs humidity). Takes about 2 weeks.
Spores do not contain psilocybin.
Here is one seller: http://www.thehawkseye.com/ that I remember.
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#20I wonder why won't some starving poor tiny pacific island legalize [some] drugs. They could probably make good money from drug tourism.
They have, I went to the Gili Islands 2 years ago, no cars and they advertise legal mushroom shakes, also amazing island for diving (not in conjunction however!) Example http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgoralnick/2625980738/
The "funny" thing is that the Gili Islands are Indonesian land, so drug smuggling carries a death sentence.
However, it's not a problem since there are no police on the island.