Magic mushroom use rises despite concerns of rare paralysis syndrome
www.abc.net.au
Wood-lover paralysis is a poorly understood syndrome related to consuming a native species of magic mushroom, with sufferers experiencing weakness and difficulty breathing in some instances.

"Psychedelic drug use appears to be increasing in Australia.

The latest National Drug Strategy Household Survey from 2022–23 saw the percentage of Australians who used a psychedelic drug rise from 1.6 per cent in 2019 to 2.4 per cent three years later taking the number of people who use these drugs annually up to about 500,000 people."

I wonder if this is because alcohol is harder to afford for many now ?

  • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Plenty of morons manage to bumble their way through medical school, this study is the only one to ever describe this alleged syndrome, and there are obvious political motives and extremely well documented previous examples of academics falsifying data to support drug prohibition, so I’m gonna go ahead and not believe this at all