Taking Shrooms Seriously - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
A new study sheds light on what happens to your brain on psilocybin, the key compound in magic mushrooms: "Psychedelics are thought of as ‘mind-expanding’ drugs, so it has commonly been assumed that they work by increasing brain activity,” says...
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