MY MUSHROOM PROBLEM
YOU’VE PROBABLY HEARD about all the ways that shrooms (or, more specifically, their active hallucinogenic compound, psilocybin) are mental-health curealls. Depression, PTSD, addiction: You name it and some wellness guru has likely told you that the right kind of mushroom can fix it. Even Oregonians voted last year to allow the therapeutic use of psilocybin in clinical, controlled settings.
It sounds exciting, but I’ve been skeptical, since I’ve seen a lot of promising yet fleeting therapies, especially. With the mental-health fallout from the pandemic and concerns that suicide rates will rise, could a mystical, psyche-delicexperience truly bring people some much-needed relief?
