Now the push is for "medical" magic mushrooms

[DigitalDrifter]

Soon, they'll be claiming that meth and heroin cures the common cold.

There's something in magic mushrooms that's shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

findings that could pry open a door closed for nearly half a century, researchers have found that psilocybin — a hallucinogen long used in traditional healing rituals — eases the depression and soothes the anxiety of patients contending with serious illness and the prospect of imminent death.

In two separate studies published Thursday, researchers report that trial subjects who received a single moderate-to-large dose of psilocybin got substantial and lasting relief from their profound distress. Among 80 cancer patients who participated in the two trials, as many as 4 in 5 continued to feel measurably less hopeless and demoralized six months after taking the drug than they had upon their recruitment.

And even years later, many reported they had gained — and retained — a profound sense of peace and meaning from the experience. Of 29 cancer patients who got psilocybin in a trial conducted at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, 20 rated it as “among the most meaningful” events of their life.

“This drug saved my life and changed my life,” said Dinah Bazer, a Brooklyn, N.Y., woman who was administered a single dose of psilocybin at a New York treatment center in 2011.

There's something in magic mushrooms that's shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

 

[Eaglewings]

Soon, they'll be claiming that meth and heroin cures the common cold.

There's something in magic mushrooms that's shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

findings that could pry open a door closed for nearly half a century, researchers have found that psilocybin — a hallucinogen long used in traditional healing rituals — eases the depression and soothes the anxiety of patients contending with serious illness and the prospect of imminent death.

In two separate studies published Thursday, researchers report that trial subjects who received a single moderate-to-large dose of psilocybin got substantial and lasting relief from their profound distress. Among 80 cancer patients who participated in the two trials, as many as 4 in 5 continued to feel measurably less hopeless and demoralized six months after taking the drug than they had upon their recruitment.

And even years later, many reported they had gained — and retained — a profound sense of peace and meaning from the experience. Of 29 cancer patients who got psilocybin in a trial conducted at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, 20 rated it as “among the most meaningful” events of their life.

“This drug saved my life and changed my life,” said Dinah Bazer, a Brooklyn, N.Y., woman who was administered a single dose of psilocybin at a New York treatment center in 2011.

There's something in magic mushrooms that's shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

Damn good idea...those are awesome.... ..... You obviously don't know a cancer dying person.. Get over yourself..

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Do you post here when you're high on mushrooms?

 

[TNHarley]

I think its awesome.
Pot also helps cancer. But God forbid people have some peace suffering from cancer..
Hey, that's why we have addictive substances like pills and alcohol! ROCK ON shit that will kill you!

 

[Brynmr]

Looking forward to the push for over the counter oxycodone.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Interesting enough weed is illegal in Jamaica yet shrooms are legal.

 

[TNHarley]

Looking forward to the push for over the counter oxycodone.

oxycodone is a good reason to legalize things like pot and cow shit fungi.

 

[Eaglewings]

Do you post here when you're high on mushrooms?

I might ask my oncologist for some when I see her next...lol.... I actually have some pot, but I don't like how it makes me feel along with pain pills.. I have a friend whom I met in the chemo rooms she is dying ...what difference does it make if she is high or not...?

 

[Eaglewings]

Looking forward to the push for over the counter oxycodone.

oxycodone is a good reason to legalize things like pot and cow shit fungi.

I still have some oxy from my surgery last year, I hate that stuff and it is highly addictive...

 

[GHook93]

Soon, they'll be claiming that meth and heroin cures the common cold.

There's something in magic mushrooms that's shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

findings that could pry open a door closed for nearly half a century, researchers have found that psilocybin — a hallucinogen long used in traditional healing rituals — eases the depression and soothes the anxiety of patients contending with serious illness and the prospect of imminent death.

In two separate studies published Thursday, researchers report that trial subjects who received a single moderate-to-large dose of psilocybin got substantial and lasting relief from their profound distress. Among 80 cancer patients who participated in the two trials, as many as 4 in 5 continued to feel measurably less hopeless and demoralized six months after taking the drug than they had upon their recruitment.

And even years later, many reported they had gained — and retained — a profound sense of peace and meaning from the experience. Of 29 cancer patients who got psilocybin in a trial conducted at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, 20 rated it as “among the most meaningful” events of their life.

“This drug saved my life and changed my life,” said Dinah Bazer, a Brooklyn, N.Y., woman who was administered a single dose of psilocybin at a New York treatment center in 2011.

There's something in magic mushrooms that's shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

I don't know about magic mushroom's medical benefits, but I sure as hell know about weed.

When my mother went through Chemo a decade ago she was sick, nauseous, had no energy, depressed, ate nothing and was losing weight to a dangerous level. The doctors gave her a ton of very expensive medicine. Nothing worked. She fought smoking weed for 6 months and finally gave it.

It was nothing less than a miracle drug. She got energy, finally got out of bed, got an appetite, the nausea was gone and she smiled and laughed. It was a miracle drug and all that got her through it.


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[Brynmr]

Looking forward to the push for over the counter oxycodone.

oxycodone is a good reason to legalize things like pot and cow shit fungi.

Ahh.... err........ no.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I'm of the mind that if you're dying? Why deny them anything that eases the pain or takes their mind off dying?

 

[TNHarley]

Looking forward to the push for over the counter oxycodone.

oxycodone is a good reason to legalize things like pot and cow shit fungi.

I still have some oxy from my surgery last year, I hate that stuff and it is highly addictive...

I honestly don't see how people think that is better than pot or something. Maybe its just decades old partisanship

 

[TNHarley]

Looking forward to the push for over the counter oxycodone.

oxycodone is a good reason to legalize things like pot and cow shit fungi.

Ahh.... err........ no.

Why? Oxy id addictive and can kill you. Pot isn't and wont. Mushrooms aren't and wont. At least at a rate a 1/10 less than oxy(OD)...

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Anything that get's you high, they'll be making a claim whatever it is "saved" their (fill in the blank).
Soon, they'll say that huffing spray paint cures emphysema.

 

[TNHarley]

Anything that get's you high, they'll be making a claim whatever it is "saved" their (fill in the blank).
Soon, they'll say that huffing spray paint cures emphysema.

Yeah, and gay marriage will lead to legalizing public park tree humping.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Soon, they'll be claiming that meth and heroin cures the common cold.

There's something in magic mushrooms that's shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

findings that could pry open a door closed for nearly half a century, researchers have found that psilocybin — a hallucinogen long used in traditional healing rituals — eases the depression and soothes the anxiety of patients contending with serious illness and the prospect of imminent death.

In two separate studies published Thursday, researchers report that trial subjects who received a single moderate-to-large dose of psilocybin got substantial and lasting relief from their profound distress. Among 80 cancer patients who participated in the two trials, as many as 4 in 5 continued to feel measurably less hopeless and demoralized six months after taking the drug than they had upon their recruitment.

And even years later, many reported they had gained — and retained — a profound sense of peace and meaning from the experience. Of 29 cancer patients who got psilocybin in a trial conducted at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, 20 rated it as “among the most meaningful” events of their life.

“This drug saved my life and changed my life,” said Dinah Bazer, a Brooklyn, N.Y., woman who was administered a single dose of psilocybin at a New York treatment center in 2011.

There's something in magic mushrooms that's shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

Let's be honest, we have legal drug dealers called pharmaceutical companies, and we have illegal drug dealers on the street. The difference between the two is very blurry when examined honestly and with intellect.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Do you post here when you're high on mushrooms?

I would post while high on pot and drinking enough to enjoy the threads... I guess some mushrooms would not hurt and might make the conversation better...

 

[TNHarley]

Do you post here when you're high on mushrooms?

I would post while high on pot and drinking enough to enjoy the threads... I guess some mushrooms would not hurt and might make the conversation better...

yeah, you might could read something that makes sense! LOL

 

[Brynmr]

Looking forward to the push for over the counter oxycodone.

oxycodone is a good reason to legalize things like pot and cow shit fungi.

Ahh.... err........ no.

Why? Oxy id addictive and can kill you. Pot isn't and wont. Mushrooms aren't and wont. At least at a rate a 1/10 less than oxy(OD)...

But it's not a reason to legalize pot and mushrooms.