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I feel compelled to comment, as the comments below are lacking data. Short answer: Yes, psychedelics including acid can be used correctly. Psilocybin (the act
by anythingnonidin 9y ago
I feel compelled to comment, as the comments below are lacking data.
Short answer: Yes, psychedelics including acid can be used correctly.
Psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) has a very similar, albeit a few hours shorter, effect to acid, and it is currently in FDA Phase 2 trials for emotional distress related to cancer, and is likely to soon progress to FDA Phase 3 trials. Some anxiety will occur in some patients, but true "bad trips" where the experience is overall negative seem highly avoidable with the correct procedure.
https://tripsafe.org/acid/#5-bad-trips-do-happen-though-possibly-not-as-often-as-you-d-think https://tripsafe.org/acid/#5-bad-trips-do-happen-though-poss...
> A 1955 paper found that anxiety occured in 9% more people who took 25-75 micrograms of LSD, and 14% more people who took 100-225 micrograms of LSD, compared with the placebo group.2
https://tripsafe.org/lsd/#what-is-the-probability-of-having-a-bad-trip-on-lsd https://tripsafe.org/lsd/#what-is-the-probability-of-having-...
> At a dosage of 67 micrograms17 in a therapeutic clinical environment, we might expect 0% of people to experience some extreme fear,18 for an LSD-adjusted average of around ~2 minutes of strong anxiety19, and we might expect around ~45% to report a persisting positive increase in mood from this dosage assuming they had first tried 35 micrograms, then 67
The last point is particularly good. An expected average of 2 minutes of strong anxiety. With highly compelling therapeutic upsides.