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How psychedelic drugs achieve their potent health benefits
- Spkeat17 3y ago[flagged]
- xor99 3y ago"But mice did not prefer the social room if given enough ketamine to make them unconscious and therefore unaware of their companions." ah yes
- thatoneguy 3y agoHopefully 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.
- LocalH 3y agoA standard "lab" would not be suitable. Too cold, too unfeeling. It must be a space specifically designed to comfort and soothe. Familiarity also plays a big part of it, if one is in a strange place that they're not used to.
- LoganDark 3y agoI'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.
- crtified 3y ago"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. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting
- LoganDark 3y agoI 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.
- replete 3y agoClearly you haven't experienced either
- LoganDark 3y agoWhat makes you say that? I probably will end up trying ketamine in a few days (depending on when it arrives), but that doesn't really have anything to do with drug classification.
- crtified 3y agoWhat property(s) would MDMA and Ketamine need to exhibit in order to qualify in your opinion as psychedelic?
- leetcrew 3y agothat'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.
- crtified 3y ago[[emphasis mine]] > some people use [[a stricter definition]], based on chemistry and/or mechanism of action. under [[this definition]] Can you please explicitly state that definition?, is what I am asking. If not, then we'd only be arguing over a vague, moving target.