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Research into whether drugs like ayahuasca can mitigate the effects of traumatic brain injury is in its infancy. Pro athletes like the Buffalo Bills’ Jordan Poyer are forging ahead anyway.
Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest psychedelics conference, and you’ll see exhibitors hawking everything from mushroom jewelry, to chewable gummies containing extracts of the psychoactive succulent plant kanna, to broad flat-brim baseball caps emblazoned with “MDMA” and “IBOGA.” Booths publicize organizations such as the Ketamine Taskforce and the Psychedelic Parenthood Community, and even The Faerie Rings, a live-action feature film looking to attract investors.
It’s a motley, multifarious symposium where indigenous-plant-medicine healers mingle with lanyard-clad pharma-bros, legendary underground LSD chemists, and workaday stoners tottering around in massive red and white toadstool hats that make them look like that cute little mushroom guy from Mario. And yet, oddest among such oddities may be the sight of enormously burly NFL tough guys talking candidly about their feelings.
100 sats \ 10 replies \ @grayruby 17h
That’s interesting.
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I’d read before about the positive effects of psychedelics on mental health, but this article breaks it down more clearly, especially when it comes to athletes.
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40 sats \ 7 replies \ @adlai 16h
the positive effects of psychedelics on mental health
it's worse than politics. any honest correspondent writes about the interesting effects, and lets editorialisation in magazines for general audiences add politics until they lose readership; however, science has been politicised for longer than I've been alive...
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Wait, is science all political these days? What makes you say that in this case?
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40 sats \ 5 replies \ @adlai 16h
is science all political these days?
pretty much; it's politics all the way down, until you reach logic; then there is some hope that the oppressed minority of mathematicians who believe that art is dead and mathematics survived by pretending successfully to be a science will survive longer than the death of their beautiful art.
What makes you say that in this case?
"a little learning" [lifetime of listening to complaints about academia, and about half a decade of accumulating some of my own]
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a little learning
edit: @adlai
[lifetime of listening to complaints about academia, and about half a decade of accumulating some of my own]
That’s super vague and not very academic. 🤠 I was asking about something specific!
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @adlai 16h
Can you name any domain of human endeavor where grant applications don't get politicised after a few generations?
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I’ll answer after you! 🤠
33 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 17h
I have definitely heard of it for veterans and other people with PTSD but never athletes. I guess it makes sense for football with the brain injuries and the fact these guys are going through the equivalent of multiple car crashes every game
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