Can Psychedelics Stop Oppression? Magic Mushroom Compound Shown To Soften Authoritarian Views

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Scientists from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London conducted a study using seven participants with treatment-resistant depression, which refers to chronic depression that doesn't respond to therapy or medication, or most likely a combination of the two.

The researchers asked the participants about their relationship with nature and had them respond to questions designed to determine their position on the libertarian-authoritarian axis—in other words, where their personal belief system falls between the opposite extremes of maximizing individual freedoms and restricting them. They then dispensed two oral doses of psilocybin; the first one 10 milligrams and the second 25 milligrams. (A typical recreational dose is usually somewhere between half a gram and five grams.)

The participants' responses were assessed after one week, and then again after seven to 12 months had passed, according to psychology news site PsyPost. The researchers compared the data to that gathered from seven psychologically healthy control patients who'd been asked the same questions, but not given any psilocybin.

The psilocybin group experienced a significant reduction in authoritarian leanings, with noticeable changes holding up even at the seven- to 12-month mark. The control group exhibited no such change. "These results suggest that psilocybin therapy may persistently decrease authoritarian attitudes post-treatment with psilocybin," the team wrote in a new paper describing their research, which was published in the scientific journal Psychopharmacology.

More: http://www.newsweek.com/can-psychedelics-stop-oppression-magic-mushroom-compound-shown-soften-790122

Imagine if somehow psilocybin spilled into the water supply in DC? It could potentially solve so many problems!

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I have said this for many years.

We are at the point where something drastic must be done to save the human race.

[herding cats]

3. Ive long thought many of the authoritarian types have an organic flaw in their mind.

When I read this I thought how amazing it would be if we recognized it as an illness and treated it as such.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. It is an illness. Whether physical or psychological I am not sure.

I think there are those who can change and that would put in to doubt our theory, so not sure.

I just had a person walk past me in my world who is a 45 yr old white female who ADORES the chief traitor because she HATES immigrants and brown people.

She is not alone, it is sick.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. If this truly works, I know of a particular group we could send free samples to...

I think repugs could use repeated, healthy doses over an extended period of time.

[DBoon]

4. Once again, proof that the hippies were right

as they were about so many things

[C_U_L8R]

6. Imagine blowhards like Hannity or Limbaugh tripping on-air.

Or a psychedelic state of the union. Where have you gone, Timothy Leary?

[Orange Free State]

8. They already sound like they are tripping on air.

Just in an evil way.

[C_U_L8R]

9. That's tripping on meth and oxy

Makes you insane in brain

[Orange Free State]

7. Any way to infiltrate

the smokeless tobacco factories and sneak this into the deplorable’s supply of Copenhagen and Skoal?


DISCLAIMER: I do not advocate this. I merely suggest it as a possibility.😁

[Xipe Totec]

10. I told them fluoride wouldn't work; all it does is strengthen their teeth.

Time to rejigger the water supply.















captioned for the humor impaired.

[NightWatcher]

11. Daily cannabis intake and annual shrooms would do amazing things for the People of Earth.

We'd rise above our petty bullshit and get shit done.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Would be interesting to see how ecstasy works on him.

I have no doubt dear Obama knows his way around a bong, at least at one point in his life.
He gives off that vibe. Funny how you can tell, often.

[hunter]

13. People trained as children to accept punishment often become authoritarians as adults.

Fortunately not all children are raised in such an environment, and among those who are, the training doesn't stick.

It's good to know there is help for people suffering authoritarian leanings.

[panader0]

14. I would recommend LSD over psilocybin.

I've done my share of both and LSD is more cerebral, mushrooms are
more physical. I saw Ken Kesey speak a few times--he called taking acid
"going to look at the books".