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Now please unremove the shroom community as next priority. Empowering open minded people with the option and knowledge to heal themselves through the use of psychadelics (and other kinds of mushrooms that can potentially help fight diseases such as cancer) that they can grow themselves without big pharma and giving them a community to share their advice+experiences is the right thing to do.
Since its Lemmy world its a weird indeed. Mushrooms are not even illegal in like 1/3rd of the world countries and decriminalized/not enforced in the other 3rd. Pretty interesting wiki read actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_psilocybin_mushrooms
Any context why it was blocked?
There's been a few poisonings lately, including half a dozen people in Australia about 2 months back that may have contributed... orrrr it might just be US law and broad optics.
I'm not sure the mushrooms used in thr Australian case were magic mushrooms. That'd be more about mycology rather than magic mushrooms we're talking about. Either way banning doesn't make much sense.
correct, am Australian. The mushrooms are called death cap here which are poisonous. they were used in a mea and it's suspected to be a deliberate poisoning. nothing recreational or accidental here, just the same usual shit that can kill you in Australia :)
Oh - they definitely weren't magic mushrooms, but people will definitely overlay the general danger of amateur mycology over the risk and (US) illegality over the magic mushrooms.
Next thing we should block any car community. Cars kill people.
Gee if only I knew a place where I could learn more about this.
/s
I spoke with 4 therapists about issues I had, they didn't help. Microdosing LSD for about a month did wonders though.
I can echo this statement for a couple people I know that found this to work for them too
They're really interesting substances with useful properties, but we know so little about them.
This is weird to me. What's the reasoning for that? We're people selling crap on there or something? If it's just discussion I really do not see the problem.
If you want people to take your hobby seriously, drop the cult language. Seriously, healing yourself? Fighting cancer?
Come on now, next you're going to try to sell me crystals that absorb bad vibes or something.
This reads as bait to me. You can see multiple peoples testimonies in the replies confirming that psychedelics succeeded in helping them or those they personally know, where repeated conventional therapy failed them. The long term repairing improvement of a persons mental and spiritual well-being also counts as 'healing' to me as well as many other people.
In the off chance you are genuinely interested in the 'helps fight disease such as cancer' claim, here is a ted talk by a professional mycologist. Its about mushrooms improving the human immune system. At the end he shares the very personal story of his elderly mother developing stage 4 breast cancer basically being told she was too old for conventional treatments and was done for. Only for her to make a full recovery after taking a few medications along with turkey tail mushrooms. You can skip to 9:00 to hear the story.
Fantastic Fungi is a good documentary on netflix if you would like to learn more, very well made and accessible to the common person IMO
Thats all I have to say. I hope you are open minded and learn something new if you decide to check out the ted talk and documentary. If you think its all snake oil BS anyways there probably isn't much I can say to sway your opinion. Hope you have a good one.
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My opposition was not in regards to the contents of what they said, but rather in how they said it.
Not a single person unaware of psychedelics would ever take that sort of language seriously. As I said, they need to drop the cult language, the anti-science language, and explain things in a way people would at least consider- much like you did.