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Single psilocybin trip delivers two years of depression relief for cancer patients
(www.sciencedaily.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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Your experience with psychedelics at the age of 19, while your brain was still developing, has no relevance to adults suffering from life-long ptsd and terminal cancer getting positive side effects from the drugs.
Oh good point, in that case I'm sure their depression will be cured......
That may or may not happen. There's no need to be a dick and take away what small bit of hope these results might offer people.
Eta: I would feel the same way you do if this was some snake oil grift touting a one shot cure for cancer or something. This, however, is just offering a slight mitigation of depressive symptoms related to the actual disease.