alt Hacker NewsThe entire point of the drug research is to make them palatable to authorities through plausible lies. American culture does not permit enjoyment for the sake of it. So you have to make up some stories and say “there is some evidence that psilocybin helps depression” or whatever and then slowly leak it towards legality.
I mean if I told you I wanted to have fun you’d lose your mind. But if I told you I needed to heal you’re fine with it. So I make it so I’m always ill and needing pharmacological therapy.
To be fair, ever since I’ve started weekly psilocybin microdoses for depression I’ve been able to stop my regular anti-depressants which had some nasty side effects. And in those 3 years, I’ve had exactly zero depressive breakdowns like I used to have.
I don’t really enjoy the feeling of a normal dose of shrooms, but with a microdose below a noticeable effect (sometimes I overshoot a little and it gets a little warm and tingly), I have in fact had a huge quality of life increase.
I guess in some ways “not wanting to die regularly” could be seen as “having fun” by some people, and I’m sure that if a proper study was done the result would be inconclusive. I mostly think that the inconclusiveness in these depression studies has much to do with a lack of understanding of what depression even is and thus a lot of them have people with very different root causes of their pathology all being labeled “depression.”
But it works for me, and it works very well. (And 2g of shrooms per month is also dirt cheap compared to expensive anti-depressants.)