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The study shows what the participants were microdosing with. A subset of the people were shown microdosing psilocybin, with an average of 0.3g per person. htt
by tasty_freeze 8y ago
The study shows what the participants were microdosing with. A subset of the people were shown microdosing psilocybin, with an average of 0.3g per person.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=large&id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211023.t002 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=...
That can't be the case, as 300mg of psilocybin would be a devastating dose. Even 30mg is a sturdy dose. Obviously, they must mean 300mg of mushroom matter, but it doesn't say if it is dry weight or wet weight.
Anyway, it will be nice when someone can do a double blind study of microdosing and get some real data to work with.
- tuxxy 8y agoAfter you start microdosing, you'll get a tolerance to the psilocin and that .3g becomes pretty negligible.
- code_duck 8y agoPartially agreed - tolerance is strong but 300mg of psilocybin is a huge amount. Mushrooms tend to be 1% or so psilocybin by weight, so that’s like an ounce. People don’t typically eat an ounce of mushrooms. Upper dose tends to be 1/4 of that.
- bonesss 8y agoSpecifically: if you're eating an ounce of mushrooms on the regular, then you are no longer 'micro' dosing, and there's a non-zero possibility that you are working on an article for Rolling Stone and just forgot.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoI suspect it's 0.3 g of mushrooms, rather than 0.3 g of pure psilocybin.
- soulofmischief 8y agoThey didn't specify if it was wet weight, but remember that most people don't ingest wet shrooms and by default just use dry weight. 300mg of wet weight likely wouldn't even provide a threshold dose.