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Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking

posted by martyb on Monday January 07 2019, @04:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the too-much-of-a-good-thing dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Turns out, 'magic' mushrooms are responsible for the lowest percentage of emergency ward visits, followed by cannabis in second place, and LSD and cocaine in joint third place.

At the other end of the chart, methamphetamine, synthetic cannabis, and alcohol carried the most risk of a trip to the local emergency ward, leaving MDMA (ecstasy) and amphetamines in the middle of the drug safety table.

The survey took in responses from 115,523 people across more than 50 countries. Nearly 10,000 participants said they had tried magic mushrooms in the past year, with 0.2 percent of those needing a trip to the hospital after their drug-induced trip.

That was the lowest percentage figure in the survey by some distance, but researchers are keen to point out that no drug use is entirely harmless - and there are plenty of other risks associated with drugs that don't necessarily land you in hospital.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-ranked-9-recreational-drugs-from-safest-to-most-dangerous

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday January 07 2019, @11:16PM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday January 07 2019, @11:16PM (#783445) Homepage Journal

    This was at UC Santa Cruz when I was 21, in 1985. Shrooms have been growing wild all over the Santa Cruz Mountains since long before the Dawn Of Humanity.

    Toward the end of a trip I was overcome with sorrow. I put on a Gregorian Chant album then lay on my bed in the dark.

    When the first side of the record finished, I got up, went into the restroom, looked in the mirror then for the very first time in my life, my reflection looked like that of a handsome young man. The sorrow had vanished; for quite a long time after I was free of depression.

    I have since concluded that I suffered Body Dysmorphic Disorder since I was 7, as whenever I looked in the mirror I saw horrible ugliness.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @11:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @11:58PM (#783474)

    I fought my depression with shroom in high school, it saved my life. a dose every 3 weeks erased my anxiety and depression. it took me 8 months of forced abstinence (I moved) to get bought to a mental health doctor by friends who cared about me