3. Ayahuasca relieves depression and anxiety, finds study on nearly 12,000 users

Ayahuasca relieves depression and anxiety, finds study on nearly 12,000 users

  1. placebo effect is really strong here, because people have much higher expectation towards a famous and infamous drug, compared to some anonymous substance synthesized in some pharma lab. Additionally, those folks who sign up for these studies often generally have a pretty favorable mindset towards drugs.

e.g. in this study placebo-cannabis with no active substance in it whatsoever had a ridiculously strong effect on PTSD, even outperforming standard psychotherapy.

  1. the thing with psychedelics is, that it is pretty impossible to to a proper double-blinded study evaluating them. Thus, you cannot tell how much of the effect is due to placebo (probably a lot, but no one really knows)
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