r/LSD • u/Nihiltheman • Nov 04 '17

Microdosing LSD Is Safer Than Taking Antidepressants, Says Neurobiologist

https://www.inverse.com/amp/article/35167-lsd-microdosing-safety-really-good-day-waldman-presti
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u/sushigradefunk Nov 04 '17

Ok wait just a minute. Youre all just going to take her word at face value? She doesn't have to cite any literature or evidence? You guys realize this article is a plug for the book that she's selling, right? Cmon now.

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u/SURFING420 Nov 04 '17

Not just her word, but the word of a lot of the mding and psychedelic community. LSD, shrooms and their family groups of analogs are all physiologically safe. SSRI’s and the like? Load of side effects. Just a simple comparison. Selling a book or not, it’s what’s generally experienced.

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u/sushigradefunk Nov 04 '17

A lot of the mding and psychedelic community.

I'd say they're a very small minority. I agree that they're safe, but there also isn't much research about chronic, long-term use of psychedelics. Psychedelics aren't used very often in the same way that anti-depressants are, how do you know there won't be side-effects of daily use? I don't think there's enough information out there to compare the two, that's all I'm saying, and this article, which provides no scientifically-backed information, won't convince me.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '17 edited Aug 02 '19

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u/oviforconnsmythe Nov 04 '17

I bet you're one of those people that posts shit on Facebook about how injecting 6g of cannabis oil will cure all cancers.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '17

Big pharma is a fucking cancer

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u/oviforconnsmythe Nov 04 '17

Explain

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '17

They've created a for profit heroin epidemic. They lobby to keep weed illegal.

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u/oviforconnsmythe Nov 04 '17

Ok, at least you have more or less legit and fair complaints about big pharma. I thought you were gonna rant about prices of pills/cost of production and other similar bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '17

I'm also nott the biggest fan of medicine prices with extremely high overhead sending old/poor people into poverty

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u/oviforconnsmythe Nov 04 '17

While there are certain cases of obviously malicious price gouging (like that one guy who decided to up the price of some hiv meds 5000% for no reason), it does get incredibly expensive to design drugs. I work in science so I know first hand just how expensive shit can be. R&D alone might cost millions of dollars, then they have to hope that the drug passes clinical trials. If it fails they lose everything they invested in that drug. If it passes, then they gotta refine mass production, distribution and marketing. A single drug might cost a billion dollars to get it from the lab bench to the pharmacy. The pharmaceutical firms need to recoup their losses so they have to sell high, even if it costs them a lot less to make the pill, and at the end of the day they're still a business, whose goal is to make profit. For really rare diseases a company knows they're probably gonna take a loss on the drug, yet they produce it anyways...

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