I’ve Got an Idea: Let’s Give Psychedelic Mushrooms to the Mentally Ill

These mushrooms cause hallucinations. Why would you want the mentally ill to have hallucinations?

Scientific American:

Oregon made history on November 3, becoming not just the first U.S. state to legalize psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms,” but also the first jurisdiction in the world to lay out plans for regulating the drug’s therapeutic use.

The next day, on the opposite coast, Johns Hopkins University researchers published results from the first randomized controlled trial of treating major depressive disorder with synthetic psilocybin. Their study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, found 71 percent of patients experienced a “clinically significant response” (an improvement that lasted at least four weeks after treatment). And 54 percent met the criteria for total “remission of depression.”

At the U.S. federal level, psilocybin remains a completely prohibited Schedule 1 Drug, defined by the Drug Enforcement Administration as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” But the state-level ballot measure and positive study results broaden the legal circumstances and settings in which the potent psychedelic can be used for mental health therapy.

“Our goal was to move psilocybin out of the medical framework so we could provide access to anyone who might safely benefit,” meaning to allow its use by counseling therapists and not just by doctors in a hospital, says therapist Tom Eckert, co-author of the Oregon Psilocybin Therapy Ballot Measure, which passed with more than 1.2 million votes (55.7 percent). Although Oregon is not the first place in the U.S. to loosen restrictions on psilocybin—the cities of Oakland, Denver, Ann Arbor and Washington, D.C., voted in the past two years to effectively decriminalize the drug—it is the first to offer a framework for legal therapeutic use. “This is very different from decriminalization, which only seeks to lower the penalties for possession,” Eckert notes. “We want to bring this therapy out from the underground and into [safe therapeutic environments].”

Oregon will not be opening any legal psilocybin therapy centers until 2023 at the earliest, as the measure requires a two-year consultation with lawmakers.

The Oregon vote is the latest step in what many see as magic mushrooms’ march to become “the next marijuana”: a natural therapeutic and mood-altering compound gaining mainstream acceptance in a regulated market.

Even if you thought there was some theoretical good use for psychedelics, it is insane to give them to the mentally ill. I don’t even know why someone would think that is a good idea.

But listen: right now, there is a massive push, across the planet, to legalize illegal drugs. It’s not about mushrooms. Primarily, it is about addictive drugs: marijuana and opioids.

They want as many people as possible on these drugs, because they want to knock as many people as possible out of the game. There is a correlation between drug abuse and IQ – the smarter you are, the more likely you are to become a drug addict. (Obviously, there are a lot of stupid people on drugs as well, but the opioid epidemic has disproportionately affected intelligent white males.)

What’s more, there is a correlation between being right-wing and getting addicted to opioids (which may or may not go beyond the basic intelligence connection).

A study found that there was a relationship between voting for Trump and getting addicted to opioids.

If you’re addicted to marijuana or fentanyl, then you’re out of the game. You’re not going to be engaged in politics. You’re not going to be engaged in much of anything, beyond watching Netflix and stealing things from your family members.

So, because they want as many whites as possible high on the hardcore drugs, they’re doing everything they can do to break down all types of drug laws, in any way they can. This is of course framed as “progressive.” I guess it is progressing towards something – toward our absolute doom!

There is nothing good that can ever come from drug abuse, and this entire program to be “kind” to drug users is designed to simply create more drug users. It isn’t nice or kind. It is a bad thing, and it is hurting our society. It is being done on purpose.

Watch how the one drug they will never try to legalize is cocaine, because even though cocaine is bad for your health, it gets people moving – and the last they they want is people moving.

They want you on your couch.