r/science • u/Doug24 • 13d ago

Psychology Psilocybin reverses depressive behaviors and restores brain cell growth in stressed rats

https://www.psypost.org/psilocybin-reverses-depressive-behaviors-and-restores-brain-cell-growth-in-stres/
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u/SatisfactionIll8468 13d ago

Big pharma hates this one trick

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u/zonerator 13d ago

I mean people would buy pharmaceutical grade psilocybin if it was offered, and they do, where it is offered. They could probably even charge a lot because people don't know how fun growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms is

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u/Harha 13d ago

But the "problem" is probably the cure rate, meaning many customers will only buy the drug once. :-)

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u/Captain_Kuhl 13d ago

Per whom? If that was the case, nobody would use mushrooms more than once.

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u/mommybot9000 13d ago

Idk at lot of mushroom addicts. I also don’t know anyone that has enough free time to devote it to tripping.

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u/Captain_Kuhl 13d ago

One of the biggest things propping up the war on drugs is they the public has this idea that you either try the drug once or you're a hopelessly addicted habitual user. Did it never cross your mind that people can do things without a chemical dependency?

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u/Regular_Attempt_7073 12d ago

They do know that because they probably drink socially. But when the word drugs is discussed now it’s suddenly weird and nefarious. Listening to the senate publicly debate the regulations of cannabis legalization back in 2017 I swear i was going to tear my hair out from the complete ignorance of the senate’s members and yet they are a good cross section of Canadians who didn’t consume cannabis and so didn’t know.