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80-year-old woman with Alzheimer's took mushrooms and started speaking again (www.microdos.in)
submitted 4 months ago by [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Dude, what did she say?

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    • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Alzheimer's is definitely a weird one, it's common before death to have a period of lucidity, like full recovery territory. I don't pretend to understand why, but it stands to reason something that's going on is in some way reversable, maybe this tripped it? Hopefully it doesn't mean she's about to kark it.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Common Side Effects?

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    • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The telephone chain with the headlines for the story are reaching the usual point of absurdity. The original stories about it were more realistic

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    • [+] -7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I hope she didn't say 'what the fuck man i did not consent to this trip' because that's what I would want to say. Mushrooms are on my never ever do list, I hope no one feeds them to me after I lose capacity.

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    5g seems like a LOT.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Depending on the strain, it's not too uncommon of a dose to have a proper 'trip'.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, originally I thought it said a 5g dose of psilocybin, and I was thinking Holy Crap. But then realized it said mushrooms, did a quick search and it said 3.5g.

    To be fair, I handle my drugs very badly. My local shop laughs at me because I am the only one they've ever had ask for "The weakest thing you have". So thinking at nearly 50% more than the "average" seems crazy to me.

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