[otterpop]

gosh i've heard so much about how good psychedelics are for treating depression, but they're obviously illegal to get a hold of.

hopefully we can see some clinical trials and find a theraputic use for them within my lifetime.

[pdamoc]

There are places where they are legal and you have the option of planning a vacation around a psychedelic experience.

My first experience with ayahuasca was in Netherlands and the afterglow of the experience was a good 3 months. The first month my depression was significantly better, the next 2 months noticeable better. After 3 months I remained on a plateau that was higher than the one I was on before the experience. The experience permanently removed my (arguably light) PTSD symptoms (I would get tensed every time I crossed the street due to an accident on the pedestrian crossway) and a particular "dark heaviness" that was part of my days from time to time.

[jackhalford]

If legality is your concern and you live in europe, it's quite easy to get legal LSD derivatives like 1p-LSD [1] that are legal in most EU countries.

[1] https://m.psychonautwiki.org/wiki/1P-LSD

[termy]

Here is a depression study carried out at Imperial College London https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-13282-7

[lowwave]

It is in Clinical Trails

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03866252

[lm28469]

To get most of the therapeutic effect you need to do that in a controlled environment, there is no reason for psychedelics to be legalised the way weed or alcohol is. The difference between a "neat it cured my ptsd" (/s) trip and a "oh shit I'm going to die this is the worse thing I experimented in my life" trip isn't that big (dose, settings, &c.)

[partyboat1586]

It can cure your PTSD but it in the wrong place at the wrong time it could also give you PTSD. Your mind is very impressionable under the influence.

[zeta_]

I believe shrooms are not illegal on most western countries

[ttonkytonk]

They're most certainly illegal in the U.S.A.!

I did a lot of street acid as a teenager and it caused me a lot of problems it seems. Only did some half decent psilocybin shrooms once, more recently (but years ago), but I liked the fact that I actually came down, acid seemed to just linger and linger long after the main trip was over.

[lame-robot-hoax]

Psilocybin mushrooms are decriminalized in Denver.

[trabant00]

> I did a lot of street acid as a teenager and it caused me a lot of problems it seems

Can you expand on that?

[ttonkytonk]

One year I did about 40 hits of acid, often multiple hits at a time, and started stuttering and just felt like I had less going on mentally. It really seemed like I had permanent brain damage. I'm not sure exactly what was going on, there were definitely extenuating factors (e.g. family dysfunction, depression etc.) but it took years for me to recover.

[narag]

Mushrooms were illegalized in NL recently, but truffles, a way of growing the same thing but underground, remain legal. It's possible to buy them legally there and semi-legally ordering them online from many other EU countries.