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The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert

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Re: The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert

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Post by john_strinlai »

mettamage wrote: post #3

Have any studies been done on this particular psychedelic? I'm curious.

plenty of scientific and not-really-scientific links available at erowid for 5-meo-dmt

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/5meo_dmt/5meo_dmt.shtml

scientific references specifically at https://www.erowid.org/references/refs.php?S=5meo_dmt

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Post by juleiie »

People really overthink drugs.

You don't need anything more than psilocybin and some weed from time to time.

Anything else is just unnecessary noise and introduces vulnerabilities to your Fortress of Mind.

Backdoor here, trapdoor here, tunnel there. Before you know it, your psyche collapses under all the brain neuroplasticity. Mind cannot form any shape at all.

Truly terrible thought so be careful my people. Don't malleableize yourself into a goo.

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Post by natpalmer1776 »

juleiie wrote: post #15

People really overthink drugs. You don't need anything more than psilocybin and some weed from time to time. Anything else is just unnecessary noise and introduces vulnerabilities to your Fortress of Mind. Backdoor here, trapdoor here, tunnel there. Before you know it, your psyche collapses under all the brain neuroplasticity. Mind cannot form any shape at all. Truly terrible thought so be careful my people. Don't ma…

YMMV by person, their neurochemistry, and their living environment. I need a stimulant for my specific biology to adapt to modern expectations.

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Post by Aurornis »

mettamage wrote: post #3

Have any studies been done on this particular psychedelic? I'm curious.

A couple groups are trying to commercialize it. There have been some trials, but they're all relatively limited by depression trial standards. Double-blind is impossible because the participants know 100% if they've received it or not. Someone volunteering to sign up for a depression study to receive psychedelic drugs is probably a believer that they work, so the placebo groups end up disappointed and the active groups are happy they got assigned the psychedelic they signed up.

One of the latest studies: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

They followed participants for 8 days, which is pretty disappointing. They really need to follow people for several months to see if anything holds or if it's a short-term placebo effect that wears off.

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Post by juleiie »

natpalmer1776 wrote: post #16
juleiie wrote: post #15

People really overthink drugs. You don't need anything more than psilocybin and some weed from time to time. Anything else is just unnecessary noise and introduces vulnerabilities to your Fortress of Mind. Backdoor here, trapdoor here, tunnel there. Before you know it, your psyche collapses under all the brain neuroplasticity. Mind cannot form any shape at all. Truly terrible thought so be careful my people. Don't ma…

YMMV by person, their neurochemistry, and their living environment. I need a stimulant for my specific biology to adapt to modern expectations.

You don't need anything.

It is the bilion dollar industrial complex that sold you solution to the problem created by the very same system. Just take a pill.

It's ingenious really.

Create the problem, sell the solution.

I am rich generally speaking and I have privilege to see everything from my high vantage point. From here I can easily see how life looks if you can afford to say: No thank you.

I don't even understand the very concept of suicide or depression. It seems fantastical. Because, I am outside the cruel system or rather I am at the steer in some capacity.

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