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Are magic mushrooms the new oxycodone? Ingredient could help treat chronic pain: new study
New York Post ^ | Dec. 19, 2023 | Brooke Steinberg

Posted on 12/21/2023 4:25:26 PM PST by nickcarraway

A new study published in the journal Current Biology found that an injection of psilocybin — the active ingredient in magic mushrooms — potentially provides long-lasting relief from chronic pain.

Scientists at the University of Michigan injected the feet of rats with formaldehyde to simulate the effects of chronic inflammation.

The rats were separated into three different groups. The first group was given a low dose of psilocybin, the second was given a high dose, and the third got a saltwater placebo. Scientists exposed the rats to pricks on their feet and hot plates to gauge their reaction.

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To: SpaceBar

It worked for Nazis and Japanese doctors.


21 posted on 12/21/2023 4:54:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Messed with shrooms once, made me sleepy. Not a big deal.

Chewed on some peyote out in the desert once and I had a cow for like 15 minutes, felt like a lifetime. No shit. Never been back.


22 posted on 12/21/2023 4:54:48 PM PST by waterhill (I Believe all you need for home defense is an 870 and a Catahoula)
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To: Veto!

“The Road to Eleusis.” R. Gordon Wasson.


23 posted on 12/21/2023 4:55:03 PM PST by Fungi
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To: SpaceBar

Animals so effing stoned on powerful psychedelics that they barely felt the cigarette lighter held to their feet by a creepy grad student.


24 posted on 12/21/2023 4:55:25 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: waterhill

And yeah you will puke. You will see things that you cannot imagine. Won’t take long. Sick as a dog. I don’t recommend it.


25 posted on 12/21/2023 5:05:16 PM PST by waterhill (I Believe all you need for home defense is an 870 and a Catahoula)
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To: nickcarraway

well they are not addicting like oxycodone is. Natives have used them for centuries.


26 posted on 12/21/2023 5:06:43 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: packagingguy

I think it depends on the dosage. High dosages of drugs can be poison. Lower doses therapeutic.


27 posted on 12/21/2023 5:11:06 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: piasa

“Sounds like Vegemite..!”

” Take a brewing waste product and through the magic of advertising/internet brainwashing people into eating the stuff thinking it is going to do wonders.”

Before that, it was snake oil...


28 posted on 12/21/2023 5:16:51 PM PST by Grampa Dave (You/We/Our Children and Grandkids are the carbon, they want to reduce.)
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To: nickcarraway

Experts I talked to said not only is it a poisnous fungus but it also has tons of pesticides.


29 posted on 12/21/2023 5:17:45 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: waterhill

“Messed with shrooms once, made me sleepy. Not a big deal.”

Wasn’t absorbed well.


30 posted on 12/21/2023 5:20:36 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: ought-six

“Mystics have been ingesting organic hallucinogens for millenia.”

Reindeer piss and Amanita Muscaria. :)


31 posted on 12/21/2023 5:24:11 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Freest Republican

CBD has nothing to do with fungus except that it is an anti-fungal. You’re confused. And the use of pesticides is strictly regulated on cannabis crops in my state.

And, for that matter, fungi are not “poisonous” but some do produce mycotoxins.


32 posted on 12/21/2023 5:26:46 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: nickcarraway

“So has Aaron Rodgers.”

Yeah? Well, he did play at Berkeley, so it would not really surprise me.


33 posted on 12/21/2023 5:29:01 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: steve86

I was posting about the ‘shrooms.


34 posted on 12/21/2023 5:29:28 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Freest Republican

Ok,not sure why you replied to a comment specifically about CBD.


35 posted on 12/21/2023 5:33:43 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: steve86

Because the differences between ‘shrooms and CBD is LOL.

it’s like comparing arsenic and tea with the takeaway that experts said caffiene is bad for you.


36 posted on 12/21/2023 5:48:25 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Veto!

I did some with a friend back in college. We walked around campus at night & I remember everything was so beautiful. Colors shimmered, the sky & stars were breathtaking. We both felt so happy. It was a wonderful experience. I had never done it before & the person who gave it to us told us to chew it & then drink 7 up to mask the dirt taste. I never regretted it.


37 posted on 12/21/2023 5:49:40 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: leaning conservative

There was something in a brownie I had in college that resulted in an experience just like that but I don’t think it was psilocybin.


38 posted on 12/21/2023 5:52:50 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: SpaceBar

Agree. Sick


39 posted on 12/21/2023 5:59:10 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

I think I’ll pass. The mild pain meds do a number on me.


40 posted on 12/21/2023 5:59:36 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't match your biography, what good is it?)
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