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'Magic mushroom' psychedelic may help heavy drinkers quit

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By CARLA K. JOHNSON

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Was nice back in the day when shrooms were still legal in Japan... but you gotta be old like me to remember.

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I was approached by a kid in Ikebukuro selling them for like ¥3500 ~ ¥4.500. (1996?)

Needless to say, I didn’t buy it, that’s when you could get 2g’s of Hash from your friendly neighborhood Iranian for little more than that.

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Very sceptical about consequences in the long run for already very sick mind... alcoholism is not only a physiological problem

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If these shrooms came in six packs, more alcoholics would switch.

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Psychedelic drugs can cause you to forget to drink.

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They can make you go and find Alice.

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I am concerned about the potential to do harm, but I do believe that there is the potential for psychedelics to rewire the brain, so to speak, so that bad behaviors are less compulsory.

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