How psychedelic drugs achieve their potent health benefits
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#2"But mice did not prefer the social room if given enough ketamine to make them unconscious and therefore unaware of their companions."
ah yes
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#3Hopefully the drugs and trip are done in a safe place like a lab. Anything that increases brain plasticity also increases suggestibility which can be extremely dangerous if you're doing ayahuasca in Peru with a bunch of strangers or even LSD in an apartment in NYC in mixed company.
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#4Hopefully the drugs and trip are done in a safe place like a lab. Anything that increases brain plasticity also increases suggestibility which can be extremely dangerous if you're doing ayahuasca in Peru with a bunch of strangers or even LSD in an apartment in NYC in mixed company.
I've done psychedelics at home (up to 400μg of LSD at once) and it was plenty safe, I think. I don't know if I'm accurate or not since I'm speaking about myself though, it's entirely possible I could have done something stupid if there was peer pressure. I think it depends on the person though.
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#5I don't think MDMA or ketamine count as psychedelics. They are psychoactive, but not psychedelic. MDMA is a stimulant and ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic. Psilocybin is indeed a psychedelic, though.
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#6I don't think MDMA or ketamine count as psychedelics. They are psychoactive , but not psychedelic . MDMA is a stimulant and ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic. Psilocybin is indeed a psychedelic, though.
Clearly you haven't experienced either
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#7I don't think MDMA or ketamine count as psychedelics. They are psychoactive , but not psychedelic . MDMA is a stimulant and ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic. Psilocybin is indeed a psychedelic, though.
What property(s) would MDMA and Ketamine need to exhibit in order to qualify in your opinion as psychedelic?
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#8Hopefully the drugs and trip are done in a safe place like a lab. Anything that increases brain plasticity also increases suggestibility which can be extremely dangerous if you're doing ayahuasca in Peru with a bunch of strangers or even LSD in an apartment in NYC in mixed company.
"Set and setting" [0] is a widely known phrase, in those scenes.
The phrase attempts to catchily summarise the vital prerequisites, in any substance-taking situation - and this applies to alcohol too, as one of the potentially hardest drugs - of a suitable mindset, and a suitable (location, social, safe, fun, ...) setting.
And when you think about it, the general approach could apply beyond this context, to many things. If you get your mind happily aligned, and are going into a positive situation you enjoy, then that's a pretty large bias toward success! Drug or otherwise.
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#9I don't think MDMA or ketamine count as psychedelics. They are psychoactive , but not psychedelic . MDMA is a stimulant and ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic. Psilocybin is indeed a psychedelic, though.
I did a full ketamine treatment... and I had a conversation with Darth Vader
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#10I don't think MDMA or ketamine count as psychedelics. They are psychoactive , but not psychedelic . MDMA is a stimulant and ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic. Psilocybin is indeed a psychedelic, though.
What property(s) would MDMA and Ketamine need to exhibit in order to qualify in your opinion as psychedelic?
that's kinda like asking what kind of properties alcohol would need to exhibit to qualify as an opiate. it's similar in some ways, but the definition of "opiate" excludes alcohol.
if your definition of "psychedelic" is "drug that makes you see weird stuff", then sure, ketamine and MDMA can be psychedelics. but some people use a stricter definition based on chemistry and/or mechanism of action. under this definition, MDMA is pretty different than LSD, and ketamine is very different from both.