What Is Psychedelic Therapy? 🍄

Psychedelic therapy is a technique that involves the use of psychedelic substances to aid the therapeutic process. Hallucinogenic substances have been used in holistic medicine and for spiritual practices by various cultures for thousands of years.

Research on the use of psychedelics flourished during the 1950s and 1960s until such substances were made illegal in the United States.

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While psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin are still illegal in the U.S., they are believed to have the potential to treat a range of conditions including anxiety, depression, and PTSD as well as many other health benefits.

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When taken in small doses, called microdosing, the substances may offer many various health benefits.

What is micro-dosing?

Microdosing involves taking very low doses of a substance, usually a psychedelic drug.

Whole Foods and other health stores offer mushrooms in pill form if you are interested in trying them.

The amount of the substance that is used is significantly below a hallucinogenic dose, yet proponents believe that the practice can produce a range of positive health effects.

These low doses are purported to enhance daily functioning while avoiding a dramatically altered state of consciousness.

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Benefits of Micro-dosing

• Alleviate mental health symptoms (such as anxiety and depression)
• Enhance performance
• Facilitate social interactions
• Improve creativity
• Increased energy
• Increase focus
• Increase concentration
• Relieve from menstrual pain
• Reduce physical symptoms (such as muscle tension and headache)
• Pain-relief.
• Beneficial for digestion

28% of Americans Have Tried At Least ONE Psychedelic Drug

Guess what. If you take pro-biotics or pre-biotics with specific strains, you’ve technically been micro-dosing. 😜

According to the YouGov poll, wealthier liberals who are college educated are most likely to use psychedelic drugs.

A recent poll by YouGov reports that 28% of Americans have used at least one of the seven psychedelic drugs asked about, which are:

• LSD (acid)
• Psilocybin (mushrooms)
• MDMA (ecstasy)
• Mescaline (peyote)
• Ketamine
• DMT
• Salvia

LSD was the most commonly used psychedelic drug (14% of Americans), followed by psilocybin (13% of Americans).

Nearly one in 10 Americans have used MDMA (9%) and mescaline (8%).

Fewer say they’ve used ketamine (6%), DMT (6%), or salvia (5%).

What kind of Americans are MORE likely to try psychedelic drugs?

According to the poll, wealthier liberals who are college educated are most likely to use psychedelic drugs.

• People who are very liberal (52% have tried at least one of the psychedelic drugs polled)
• People with a family income of $100,000 or more (42% have tried at least one)
• People with a postgraduate degree (42%)
• 30- to 44-year-olds (39%)
• People who live in the Western U.S. (37%)

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What kind of Americans are LESS likely to try psychedelic drugs?

• Black Americans (14% have tried at least one of the psychedelic drugs polled)
• Americans 65 and older (14% have tried at least one)
• Protestants (19%)
• People in rural areas (19%)
• People who are conservative (21%)

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Most Americans do NOT support decriminalizing psychedelic drugs.

Denver, Colorado became the first city to decriminalize psilocybin in May 2019.

Oakland and Santa Cruz, California also decriminalized psilocybin in June 2019 and January 2020, respectively.

According to the poll, most Americans still do not support the decriminalization of psychedelic drugs.

• By 44% to 27%, Americans oppose decriminalizing psilocybin (mushrooms)
• By 53% to 20%, Americans oppose decriminalizing LSD (acid)
• By 53% to 19%, Americans oppose decriminalizing MDMA (ecstasy)

People who have tried these 3 psychedelic drugs are more supportive of decriminalizing them.

Two-thirds of people who have tried psilocybin (68%) say it should be legal, 43% of people who have tried LSD say it should be legal, and 48% of people who’ve tried MDMA say it should be legal.

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Western Americans Are Most Likely to Support Decriminalizing Psychedelics

People who live in the Western part of America are more likely than people from other regions to support the decriminalization of mushrooms, acid, and ecstasy.

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END THE STIGMA!

While many Americans are against the decriminalization of psychedelic drugs, this is likely due to the fact that they do not understand the health benefits of the drugs.

Like with everything else in life, people fear what they don’t know.

We are all humans who have been programmed by societal norms.

Psychedelic drugs have been found to be very beneficial for various health conditions including but not limited to cancer, tumors, PTSD, anxiety, alcohol abuse, and more.

Remember when marijuana had a stigma? 🍁

Mycologist Paul Stamets Cured His Stutter with Mushrooms

Paul Stamets is an American mycologist, speaker, author, medical researcher, and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company, Fungi Perfecti.

He is an author and advocate of medicinal fungi and mycoremediation. Stamets is considered an intellectual and industry leader in fungi: habitat, medicinal use, and production.

Not only did the legendary Paul Stamets cure his own STUTTER with psychedelics, but he went on to cure his mother’s cancer!

Watch his incredible story in the Netflix documentary, “Fantastic Fungi.”

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Cure Cancer with Mushrooms

Mycologist Paul Stamets has devoted his career to advancing our understanding of the healing potential of mushrooms.

His work hit home when his mother was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer that had spread to her sternum and liver.

Her oncologist told her she was too old for radiation therapy.

The doctor recommended a clinical trial of turkey tail mushrooms at the Bastyr Integrative Oncology Research Center — a study her son happened to be supplying through his mushroom cultivation business, Fungi Perfecti.

Stamets tells the story of his mother’s dramatic recovery in a TED MED talk (beginning at the 7:50 mark).

ABOUT THE WRITER:

Elena Patestas is a journalist and writer for Valuetainment media. She attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and Adelphi University on Long Island, New York. She was born and raised in Roslyn, New York, and currently lives in Miami, Florida.

Elena is passionate about bringing positive change to our world and believes education is the root to solving many societal problems. After overcoming a chronic health condition, Elena became passionate about health and believes food is the key to preventing dis-ease and achieving optimum health.

Amongst her many goals, she hopes to bring positive, impactful change to our world to create a healthy, financially sound, and unified society.