“Treatment has been in a crisis for decades,” says Matthew Wayne Johnson, Ph.D. Many scientists today see the drug as a new path forward in what’s been a frustrating dead end for mental health. The FDA officially designated psilocybin (the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms) as a “breakthrough therapy” for severe depression in 2018. Westerners began exploring their medical potential back in the 1950s, but were forced to abandon psychedelic research in the 60s-partly due to reckless use in young people and a backlash against the counterculture movement.įorty years later, research is finally making a comeback and the results are promising. Indigenous cultures around the world have been using magic mushrooms and other psychedelics for thousands of years for emotional, physical, and spiritual healing. While the fungus may be trending now, our fascination with them is anything but new. just makes you happy and you have a good time-it’s not like alcohol where you’re always needing more and chasing the buzz Had morel support become the new aperol spritz? I’ve gotten probably 15 of my friends on it and they all agree, it’s an easy way to cut down or cut out drinking altogether.” I have more fun, I’m more giggly, there’s no hangover and I wake up feeling happier and more energized-never anxious and the opposite of depressed. “When I go out, I take them instead of drinking. “Ze best! I’ve been microdosing mushrooms for the last year. Within minutes, my DMs lit up with hearts and messages. Amused by the chocolate bar packaging, I snapped a pic and shared it to my Instagram stories. I wanted to be the cool girl who could ‘shroom on a whim, but I’m a pragmatic researcher at heart (hence my job as a reporter). I offered to pass the bottle of wine, but my friends declined and skipped the nightcap for a mushroom cap, assuring me they were “super mellow” if I wanted to try one. Under nutritional info the label read, “INGREDIENTS: GOOD TIMES & LAUGHTER.” It was the type of gathering where we’d typically share a bottle (or two) of our favorite red, but instead on her vintage coffee table next to a glowing Trudon candle, I saw a ziploc baggie filled with magic mushrooms (slender gray stems with rust-colored caps) and a rainbow Willy Wonka-like shroom chocolate bar. I'd sunk into the leather couch after work for our usual “wine” down with my girlfriends.
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