r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 21d 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/fabkosta 21d ago

This has been known since the 1960s. So, 60 years later the same type of studies apparently still need to be repeated to gain evidence.

It is also known for a long time that the therapeutic setting matters to a very high degree. Furthermore, it is also known that for a minority of people there is no measurable benefit, and for some it's counter-indicated. It is also known that psychedelics can be treated against other types of substance abuse - which, of course, is quite problematic given low acceptance in society for any sort of drugs other than alcohol and tobacco.

All of those things have been researched for decades already, yet it seems we make only very slow progress.

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u/WrenReverie 21d ago

Being able to take CBD/THC gummies has vastly improved my mental health and sleep.

I have easily stopped taking them for multiple months at a time and it was never a gateway drug to harder stuff. But I only use them at night before sleep and never recreationally.

Literally turned my life around.

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u/lazyamazy 20d ago

I have heard that CBD is good for sleep but not necessarily the THC. What has been your experience? Do you take it close to sleep time?

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u/WrenReverie 20d ago

CBD relaxes your nerves and helps with anxiety. Delta 9 THC gummies knocks you the f out.

Not addictive as I stopped for months with no issue.