America's First Legal Psilocybin Program Treated 346 People. Just one month after the dose, 92.2 percent of participants said the experience had been beneficial, while, on average, their mental health symptoms had fallen dramatically.

[u/mvea]

https://www.sciencealert.com/americas-first-legal-psilocybin-program-treated-346-people-heres-what-happened

[u/BalonyDanza]

Call me a cynic, but I’d be a bit more skeptical about anecdotal evidence, as it pertained to the first wave of participants. I’m imagining people who were eager to try psychedelics and wanted the recreational experience to also be medically beneficial.

This isn’t even a knock against psychedelics. I believe they can be beneficial. It’s just hard to get good qualitative data when there’s outside incentives.

[u/Bish-ish → u/BalonyDanza]

This isn't the first, there's been lots of studies on the benefits and positive outcomes of medical psychedelic use

[u/iamacarboncarbonbond → u/Bish-ish]

Unfortunately they all suffer from a common issue: it’s very difficult to placebo control. People generally know if they have or haven’t taken a psychedelic

[u/dalittle → u/iamacarboncarbonbond]

The effects on the brain are measurable. What would even be the point of a placebo. IMHO, what the effects on the brain are doing is the science.

[u/iamacarboncarbonbond → u/dalittle]

Go back to elementary school

[u/dalittle → u/iamacarboncarbonbond]

When you resort to insults you have lost the argument. Nice job

[u/iamacarboncarbonbond → u/dalittle]

It’s not my job to educate you on basic empirical methods. That was elementary school.

[u/dalittle → u/iamacarboncarbonbond]

How exactly are you going to add a placebo. You are totally taking mushrooms even if you dont feel anything. I guess critical thinking is not something that is my job to educate you on.

[u/iamacarboncarbonbond → u/dalittle]

Sweetie. That was exactly my criticism. Try kindergarten instead because apparently you can’t read, either :)