Psychedelics - Here’s Where We Are

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Here’s rundown of the different psychedelics and why people are so excited about them. Psychedelics activate the serotonin 5HT2a receptor in the brain. Antidepressants and the atypical antipsychotics also affect this receptor but in different ways. Psychedelics are a class of drugs that cause hallucination experiences and altered states of consciousness when you consume a normal dose of them. This is in contrast to alcohol, where you have to consume a lot of it and become intoxicated to have an altered state of consciousness. The common psychedelics are psilocybin found in mushrooms, N, N dimethyltryptamine, or DMT for short. This is a compound found in Ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is a tea found in the Amazon forest. Not the online retailer. One of the plants that makes up the tea has monoamine oxidase inhibitor properties. The MAOI’s are a type of older antidepressants that are very good, but have certain food interaction. So just be aware if you decide to drink some of this tea on your own, that you make sure you aren’t taking or eating other foods or medications that could interact with the tea. Another plant-based psychedelic is mescaline found in the peyote cactus and a few other cacti. These three are naturally occurring psychedelics. A synthesized drug is lysergic acid diethylaminde known as LSD. Ketamine is a psychoactive drug that was originally approved for anesthesia and is now being used to treat depression. Ketamine causes altered states of consciousness and ha

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