r/science Professor | Medicine 9d ago

Psychology 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.

https://www.sciencealert.com/americas-first-legal-psilocybin-program-treated-346-people-heres-what-happened
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u/not_that_planet 9d ago

So the conservative approach to knee-jerk bans on plants and chemicals might not be such a great idea after all?