There’s more. Researchers say psychedelic drugs help neurons in the brain sprout new dendrites, which look like branches on a tree, to increase communication between cells.
“These drugs can increase neuronal outgrowth, they can increase this branching of neurons, they can increase synapses. That’s called neuroplasticity,” Nutt said.
They say it now, but they were saying it decades ago too...
It's just crazy all these plants humanity grew up with were banned in the last century or two and all types of shit that's incredibly harmful is legal. Like, not just other drugs. All the plastics, pollution, and chemical additives are way more dangerous to human health than psilocybin or cannabis.
These drugs weren't banned to protect people's health, they were banned to protect the status quo
Nixon's admin blatantly admitted it.
“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”