Magic mushrooms are a strange drug. They're one part illegal music festival enhancer, one part promising treatment that could have important medical applications. That second use continues to look more and more promising.
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There's some crazy meat industry propaganda video waiting to be made where a buff jock takes a bite out of a hamburger served by a polite waiter, who then rips off a mask to reveal the demented face of someone from the mushroom industry shouting, "That burger is 50 per cent mushrooms!" after which the customer drops the burger in horror, and dies. If you make this video, please send it to me.
Past research has suggested that magic mushrooms can help with the existential anxiety of cancer, positively change personalities, and even help kick nicotine addictions.
Some of our cows and chickens are on drugs. The relative safety of those drugs is the subject of ongoing debate, and some are more common than others. Last month, Bloomberg reported that Sanderson Farms is being sued for allegedly dosing its chickens with ketamine.
The active ingredient in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, is remarkably effective at reducing feelings of anxiety, depression and other forms of mental anguish in cancer patients, according to a pair of new studies.
