Everything you need to know about psychedelics and mental illness
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The science of psychedelics is everywhere – but we should treat it with serious scepticism
Do you keep seeing mentions of psychedelics everywhere you look? Does the entire world suddenly seem alive with studies of magic mushrooms, LSD, and MDMA? Does it seem like huge numbers of scientists are telling you the cure for anxiety, depression, PTSD and much else might lie in the same drugs that helped The Beatles write Sgt. Pepper? You’re not hallucinating. It’s real. At essentially any time, you can put “psychedelics” into Google and you’ll see the little News box pop up with new, exciting stories. Here’s just a sample from when I started writing this article – all published within…
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