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Single dose of LSD provides immediate, lasting anxiety relief, study says

www.cnn.com Single dose of LSD provides immediate, lasting anxiety relief, study says | CNN

One dose of LSD in a clinical trial significantly improved anxiety and lasted for 12 weeks, convincing the FDA to give the drug a breakthrough therapy designation.

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Legalize everything
- in a controlled environment. There’s plenty of people who would not benefit from popping an LSD tab with no sense of set or setting
  
  I’m all for therapeutic use of psychedelics, but most people I know would end up worse after trying LSD without having the right sitter and a planned trip session
  
  make it 25+ and have people attend a mandatory safety class before they're allowed to purchase any, perhaps even a guided "first trip" would be good
  
  nah airborne tones of LSD tabs over every towns and let the luckiest survives
  
  Theres more drugs than just LSD, andthey can be for fun too
It can do wonders. I have a (semi) quarterly ritual - one I'll be partaking in soon to coincide with the Vernal Equinox - of taking a large dose of psilocybin and diving into my own psyche for an afternoon. Its hard to explain the way it helps to change thought patterns.

With the right set going in you can really see the harmful ruts you've fallen into, recognize their manifestations and reroute. My last trip, during the winter solstice, snapped me out of a depressive episode I'd been battling for a year. It helped me see that I'd been spending my time and effort trying to live a life I'd long since stopped being excited for, for reasons unrelated to my depression, and it helped me feel empathy towards myself, so I could move forward on a new path, at peace.

It wouldn't have happened had I not been working on getting myself out of that rut for weeks prior through art, self reflection and seeking support, but it truly came to fruition after breaking down the barriers of my mind, destroying my ego for an afternoon, travelling through time and space and coming out the other side renewed.
- One dose of 6 g of mushrooms made my depression go away for several months. I also had a harrowing and terrifying trip, and I can totally see why some people have a psychotic break after taking them.
- If tripping at a specific time of the year puts you in a good headspace, so be it. Roll with what your beliefs are. (My point is about ensuring that a person should always be in a comfortable state when using psychedelics for self-repair. There is a chance that a person may confront some very uncomfortable things so every little bit helps.)
  
  Still, I like that psychedelics are self-regulating for the most part. Quite honestly, I can only handle a super-deep trip every few months. Other than that, a few grams on the weekends, if my schedule allows, is ok with me.
  
  It has really helped my anxiety, depression and helps keep my alcoholism at bay. (I don't count days, but I haven't had a drink in almost 2 years? Dunno.) Psychedelics are awesome tools for self-reflection, for sure.
  
  Yeah once every 3 months seems to be about the sweet spot for me. The Solstice/Equinox thing is mostly just a way of preparing myself mentally. It flows with the changing of seasons and gives a naturally occuring cadence to it.
I have anecdotal evidence to the contrary
- From the article:
  
  Compared with experiences with forms of LSD purchased illegally on the street, the study’s grade of MM120 did not appear to induce “bad trips,” Karlin said.
  
  “LSD is difficult to manufacture with high purity and tends to degrade quickly in the presence of light and water,” Karlin said. “We’re manufacturing it to pharmaceutical industry standards, a highly pure version that is also shelf stable. So that’s a critical difference.”
  
  Most adverse effects in the study were rated as mild to moderate by participants, occurring mostly on the day of the study, Karlin said. Those included euphoric feelings, illusions and hallucinations, anxiety, abnormal thinking, headaches, dizziness, nausea, excessive sweating, vomiting, numbness or tingling of the skin, and pupil dilation.
  
  I do worry a bit whenever these articles come out that people will just read the headline, go out and procure some hallucinogenics for themselves, and then not have a good time because they didn't read the fine print.
  
  I wish I had read this 20 minutes ago before I started this
- And that’s why we need to legalize it all - so we can study it and have non-anecdotal evidence.
  
  what ? because you think they have no way of experimenting on it because it's illegal for common folks ? Someone needs to visit a lab once it seems. I mean how the fuck do you think they got this results ?
  
  That’s not how anecdotal evidence works.
Immediate? LSD takes an hour to kick in for me.
- it's immediate in therapy time
I became a cruel asshole on lsd and later found out I potentially had dissociative identity disorder lol.
- Yes, top comment always has to be the "but what about my extremely bad trip which caused me to go psychotic/peel myself like an orange/jump out of a sixth story window".
  
  When will people let go of this 1980's D.A.R.E. bs?
  
  Bill Hicks - Positive Drug Story
  
  I didn't downvote you, just in case.
  
  I don't know if it's my app or what, but Lemmy tends to show the latest comment first, then it shows the rest sorted by votes.
  
  And the latest comment is usually unreviewed and is as dumb as you would expect.
  
  So, pay no attention to those people, friend.
  
  LSD ain't for everybody but as long as you're having a good time who cares about anybody else?
Imma go overdose because I need A LOT of relief

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