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From the article: "We counted participants as having any lifetime psychedelic use if they reported use of LSD, psilocybin, mescaline or peyote." This is pretty
by jeremysmyth 12y ago
From the article: "We counted participants as having any lifetime psychedelic use if they reported use of LSD, psilocybin, mescaline or peyote."
This is pretty typical use of the term. They also distinguished it from "past year use" for LSD.
- throwawayaway 12y agoso i would count as lifetime use, i did them a few times, developed mental health problems and stopped as a result. my mental health problems cleared up within a year. now i don't have mental health problems. i would hardly say on the basis of my experience that psychedelics are safe. i know people who took many times longer to recover. the report seems to imply that my experience is just a coincidence. i doubt i would have developed the mental health problems without psychedelics. the report looks at lifetime use but past year mental health problems, which means you can't say "Psychedelics not linked to mental health problems or suicidal behavior" you have to qualify it by saying "past year".