If applicable to people, this would seem to be a treatment for Republican disease. No longer would the fools be able to be managed by their political handlers through fear.

Now we only need to focus on boosting Republican IQ by 50 to 100 percent, and they would be nearly fully functional people.

This property that many psychoactive substances possess has been well known to large numbers of humans for a long, long time. The ability of the experience to also increase empathy has a profound effect on civility and personal well-being.

One study I read recently was this from Johns Hopkins:
http://www.hopkin...y_change

For the casual therapeutic event I recommend creating a positive setting first: good friends, nice environment (possible outdoors) and uplifting mellow music. And maybe a beer.

Could work. I recall after about a 10X overdose of acid, other things suddenly seemed a lot less scary!

those shrooms pictured are not p.c. s

those look like honey shrooms which are a common edible.

i have never tried them.

o.k. maybe they are...hmmmm who can tell without up close inspection.

@VandicarE your comments are becoming as boring and predictable as the vacuum mech guy. belittle, name call, then change the subject to conservative hate.
I think you, sometimes, have interesting insights but, you seldom share them anymore.

those shrooms pictured are not p.c. s

those look like honey shrooms which are a common edible.

i have never tried them.

o.k. maybe they are...hmmmm who can tell without up close inspection.

Drop the picture onto Google Images and you get a match for "psilocybin mushrooms", but not a specific identification. In my literature I see several species that this could be a match for. Particularly Psilocybe mexicana and Psilocybe semilanceata, though there are others. Hard to tell with just a single image to go by.

If applicable to people, this would seem to be a treatment for Republican disease. No longer would the fools be able to be managed by their political handlers through fear.

Now we only need to focus on boosting Republican IQ by 50 to 100 percent, and they would be nearly fully functional people.

That's a great theory. Too bad 50-100% wouldn't be enough to make you functional in society.

The fact that they could potentially erase "conditioned fear" speaks volumes about their illegality..

It's a health care business, This line of natural product substitution is way worse than corporate synthetic chemicals running out of patent protection. If you could see the movie without buying a ticket, you wouldn't need to buy a ticket each time. The time that heals all wounds cannot be delivered by the business.

Psilocybin would be a breakthrough treatment in social anxiety or other anxiety disorders.

"If applicable to people, this would seem to be a treatment for Republican disease."
That would only treat half the problem.