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by hprotagonist 3364 days ago
It's been done before. The marsh chapel experiment had an active control -- participants who didn't get psylocibin got niacin instead, which causes some short-term physiological changes.

It isn't perfect, but it's probably as close as you could get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment