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The Potential of Psychedelics for Mental Health
There are circumstances in which these things can have profound therapeutic effects and they're generally very well tolerated physiologically if we're talking about say psilocybin magic mushrooms. I'm borrowing from Stan Groff who's a famous psychotherapist but psychedelics have the potential to do for the mind what say the microscope did for biology and what the telescope did for astronomy, he says. "I am at a point where I feel that is absolutely true and there are some very significant risks"