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[–] Stamets@startrek.website 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I volunteer to be tribute. I need help and nothing's working :(

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you’re in Canada you can order them online and they’ll come by Canada Post within a few days.

Or live true to the real life Stamets and grow your own :) very easy to do.

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago

Where is this magical place and how much more broke will I be?

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] settoloki@lemmy.one 3 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry, you're lacking in freedom in America

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

California and Oregon have places you can buy mushrooms.

However uncle bens tek is popular and easy. You innoculate your own spores and grow your own cubensis

[–] s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I believe Oregon recently legalized psychedelic mushrooms. You can always grow your own too. You just have to find a source for spores or clones.~~Although, that would be considered illegal in just about every state.~~ Edit: Apparently, spores are legal to purchase in every US state, except California, Idaho and Georgia. https://www.leafly.com/news/health/how-to-buy-shroom-spores

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Spores are legal in all states except for California. Perfectly legal to purchase a psilocybin spore syringe for microscopy usage only

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I wonder how many people have microscopes in their homes. 🫣

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve got some anecdotal evidence that it fully and completely cured my road rage. I’ve been 5 years without a gut wrenching anger when I get cut off or when someone without self awareness whips their car out in front of me.

Also I don’t blame myself for my parents decade long divorce that made them both very very poor. Bonus.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

I can see that, it supposedly builds new synaptic connections. For myself somebody pointed out if your are walking and an old person is walking slow in front of you, or a person turns and bumps into you unaware, you don't swear and yell and try to hit them, we move out of their way and apologize to each other---why should being in a car change decency. And that was enough to trigger a new thinking pattern for me.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 11 months ago

This is science you can test yourself 😏

[–] Stanwich@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well I invested in NUMI so it better f$king work!

[–] undercrust@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

LOL, cause it worked so well for pot stocks

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Stan says she tried different therapies but nothing really helped until she found magic mushrooms β€” which are illegal to produce, possess and sell in Canada without special permission.

Stan's experience with microdosing psilocybin is a powerful anecdotal story, but what does the science say about the practice as a potential mental health treatment?

Once a week they either get a microdose of psilocybin or a placebo, and then Petranker and his team put them through a series of tests to determine if they experience an improvement in their mood.

Zeina Beidas, the lead research assistant, says microdosing is so trendy right now that many people in the general public simply believe it works.

Anecdotally, I see young people in particular coming in after using powerful hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin, and leading to really, really negative mental health outcomes, like even a psychotic episode."

Andrina Stan, who graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Toronto, continues to use psilocybin, but she urges others thinking of microdosing to do it safely.


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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

DXM is also an interesting hard reset

[–] dimeslime@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you got more details on that? I wouldn't classify it as a hard reset but I never did the crazy high doses.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm speaking more personally/anecdotally but it can really shift things around from a high 2nd plateau - 4th on. I haven't done a 4th plateau cuz it scares the fuck out of me but there you have it

Edit: there seems to be a lot of work being done(+ its very in vogue right now/fashionable) to use ketamine to treat depression. Ketamine is also an anaesthetic and NMDA-antagonist at supra-therapeutic doses...

[–] the_q@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would imagine any belief of efficacy is placebo. Now a heroic dose, that's where the real change can happen.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dr. Andrew Huberman's podcast reviews the available literature here (in the section marked Psychedelics, after 1:34 or go to 1:37 for discussion of a specific study that's also linked on the page): https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/understanding-and-conquering-depression

From what I've heard recent years, you don't get to just (micro)dose up and see what happens. Guidance is needed for there to be actual healing potential. Those of us who have no such trained or even sympathetic person around to help would be taking a big risk. Even having an untrained friend around, you'd just be taking a holiday from your depression and not really treating it.