A near-catastrophe, featuring psilocybin
...it’s a fairly typical example of delusional thinking. Incredibly dangerous when the person was psychosis is flying an airplane.
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Sad, But Also True
She wasn’t being entirely altruistic– she did charge participants a cool five hundred dollars apiece– but it’s reasonable to assume that she meant well, with no intent to cause harm.
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Watch Out for ‘Vitamin K’
Now that more of the widely abused anesthetic is in circulation for so-called ‘recreational’ purposes, new (and strange) consequences have begun to emerge.
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Ayahuasca Bros
What is it about having consumed hallucinogenic tea in a remote forest clearing, and as a result, spending the next few hours first vomiting, then hallucinating, and finally alternating between euphoria and intense fear, that could possibly transform the user into better, more effective corporate leader?
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Heard of HPPD?
A whole range of psychedelic substances can apparently trigger HPPD
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The Psychonaut as CEO
It appears to attract younger CEO’s from industries such as technology, entertainment, and high finance. It’s here that we encounter language such as ‘visioning’, ‘aspirationalizing’, and ‘future-proofing’, whatever that may be.
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More about “The Pink Stuff”
…pink cocaine could be classified as a stimulant (MDMA), a psychedelic (the aforementioned 2-CB), and a dissociative anesthetic (ketamine). Along with whatever else the outlaw chemist may have had lying around the lab at the time.
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Mean Green
At this point in the US, there are allegedly a couple of hundred thousand people who would reasonably qualify as ketamine-addicted.
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Moms and Mushrooms
Before that, however, there were the amphetamines, introduced to America’s moms as aids to weight loss and a source of much-needed pep.
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It’s Not Magic
Psilocybin is of course a Schedule One controlled substance, while amanita is not. As a result, the amanita products are “…often marketed as a dietary supplement…”
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A Bad Mistake
Problem: even if society passes good laws to regulate sales, how can we enforce them?
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Approving Psychedelics
The organization formed… as a public-benefit corporation, in anticipation that MDMA-assisted therapy would win FDA approval and start to reap taxable revenue that it couldn’t manage as a nonprofit.
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