I don't have any personal interest in psychedelic drugs, but jesus... that whole blog supports none of its central claims. That level of hyperbole is almost always unhelpful in a discussion aimed at getting to the facts of a matter, and that's doubly true when it lacks support.
Do I think that microdosing is well supported? No. Do I think that the author added anything to the discussion beyond their obvious love for the sound of their own voice? No.
Microdosing doesn’t seem well supported, and I guess some people have varying definitions of what is or is not a psychedelic, but lots of legitimate medical uses are more and more well supported. Anything that can help with PTSD and addiction, for example, should be allowed for supervised therapeutic use.
I noticed a lot of emotional language in this post, and wonder whether anybody can take it seriously.
This certainly doesn't seem at all like a scientist's work to me, and in fact is the kind of moralising that leads me to wonder - what can be the values of the person who wrote it?
This person is an archetype I just can’t put my finger on it. Reminds me of a lot of different individuals I’ve met throughout my life who I’d never heed advice from.
Psychedelics are one of the many joys of being alive on this earth. This post is noise and should probably get flagged.
> I think it is trivially obvious that civilization has decayed since their use became popular and widespread.
I mean, the public has been exposed to a number of other mass psychological experiments in the time frame I think the author is referencing, social media and its hooks into our reward centres being the most notable for being both more pervasive and more ingrained into day-to-day life
I'm not saying the author is wrong on all accounts (though I also think psychedelics such as MDMA and Ketamine have shown much more promise for PTSD and depression than the other pharmaceutical treatments for those disorders which were integrated into the social fabric for decades before psychedelics became "popular")
But the suggestion that the decay of civilization has been caused by the uptick in availability of psychedelic treatments has as much evidence as "wet streets cause rain" or "economic growth causes traffic congestion"
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3
For example.
This certainly doesn't seem at all like a scientist's work to me, and in fact is the kind of moralising that leads me to wonder - what can be the values of the person who wrote it?
Psychedelics are one of the many joys of being alive on this earth. This post is noise and should probably get flagged.
I mean, the public has been exposed to a number of other mass psychological experiments in the time frame I think the author is referencing, social media and its hooks into our reward centres being the most notable for being both more pervasive and more ingrained into day-to-day life
I'm not saying the author is wrong on all accounts (though I also think psychedelics such as MDMA and Ketamine have shown much more promise for PTSD and depression than the other pharmaceutical treatments for those disorders which were integrated into the social fabric for decades before psychedelics became "popular")
But the suggestion that the decay of civilization has been caused by the uptick in availability of psychedelic treatments has as much evidence as "wet streets cause rain" or "economic growth causes traffic congestion"