Scientists are learning more about how psychedelic mushrooms may alter the brain, potentially leading to long-lasting reversals of depression, anxiety, cluster headaches and more.

  • @givesomefucksEnglish
    9•10 days ago

    There’s more. Researchers say psychedelic drugs help neurons in the brain sprout new dendrites, which look like branches on a tree, to increase communication between cells.

    “These drugs can increase neuronal outgrowth, they can increase this branching of neurons, they can increase synapses. That’s called neuroplasticity,” Nutt said.

    They say it now, but they were saying it decades ago too…

    It’s just crazy all these plants humanity grew up with were banned in the last century or two and all types of shit that’s incredibly harmful is legal. Like, not just other drugs. All the plastics, pollution, and chemical additives are way more dangerous to human health than psilocybin or cannabis.

    These drugs weren’t banned to protect people’s health, they were banned to protect the status quo

    Nixon’s admin blatantly admitted it.

    “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html

    • @[email protected]
      2•10 days ago

      It’s just crazy all these plants humanity grew up with were banned in the last century

      I get your point, but most psychedelics aren’t derived from plants.

      Nixon’s admin blatantly admitted it.

      I find the claim highly dubious. This is from an interview published in 2016. Ehrlichman (which is quite the name for someone working for Nixon) was dead over 16 years at point. How do we know the interview didn’t make this up? Like, you publish something out of character of someone dead since over a decade?

      The fact that Nixon’s administration was straight up criminal and dangerous doesn’t need any interviews which content could very well have been made up. The academic evidence for legalization for a lot of substances is already there, we just chose to ignore it.

    • JaggedRobotPubesEnglish
      1•10 days ago

      Psychedelics dissolve fascism at the cellular level.

      And a whole lot of other things, too. Once you take them, you can never weaponize them.