Psilocybin is illegal in most areas but is being explored in clinical trials for depression, trauma, and eating disorders, often with macrodoses. — Whalespan
Psilocybin is illegal in most areas but is being explored in clinical trials for depression, trauma, and eating disorders, often with macrodoses.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“Now, I do want to say because it would be entirely inappropriate for me to not say this, that in most areas of the world and particularly in the United States, psilocybin is still illegal. It is not legal. In some areas it has been decriminalized and there are a number of different clinical trials occurring now at Johns Hopkins, at Stanford, at University of California, San Francisco, and elsewhere exploring psilocybin for the treatment of depression, for trauma, for eating disorders. Most of those studies focus on macrodoses of psilocybin not microdosing. There are far fewer studies of microdosing of psilocybin. And I do have to point out that psilocybin use and possession and, of course, sale is still illegal. So I would be remiss if I didn't state that.”