A man in the grip of deep gloom
Was given a magic mushroom.
His shrink said, “It’s fine,
You’ll feel great in no time!”
And that’s what they wrote on his tomb.
—Anonymous
Use of psilocybin, better known by its stage name “magic mushrooms,” has risen significantly since 2019 as states and local governments decriminalize the psychedelic.
And a new study shows psilocybin use among 12th graders rose 53 percent from 2019 to 2023, with further increases expected as new data emerges.
During that same period, users of psilocybin increased from 10 percent to 12.1 percent of Americans, a jump from 25 to 31.3 million people.
What cold heart would push these patently dangerous poisons on the public?
Published April 22 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the study also revealed that the use of magic mushrooms among adults was higher than cocaine, illicit opioids, methamphetamine or LSD, reflecting a 188 percent increase among adults 30 and older.
Predictably, the more magic mushrooms circulate in society, the more the phones ring in poison control centers, according to the research. Coauthor of the study, Dr. Andrew Monte, said: “As these drugs are used more in the community, you will see more adverse events.”
A Canadian study published in March affirmed Dr. Monte’s fears, establishing a link between bad psychedelic trips and a more than twofold increased risk of death within five years, with suicide topping the pathology list.
Who would permit such a thing to happen? What cold heart would push these patently dangerous poisons on the public?
Psychiatrists, that’s who. Promoting magic mushrooms and other deadly psychedelics as “therapeutic” is their latest marketing project—following in the tradition of lobotomies, leukotomies and electroshock in their ongoing effort to depopulate the world.
With study after study documenting the catastrophic effects wrought by its decades-long cash cow, antidepressants, the psychiatric industry and its comrade-in-arms, Big Pharma, must have seen the writing on the wall. In search of a new meal ticket, they began sowing the seeds of “psychedelic therapy” as a cure-all for everything from depression to anxiety to substance abuse to PTSD.
PTSD, in fact, has become the psychiatric industry’s ultimate psychedelic golden fleece, with 16.2 million US veterans as their prime target. The prospect of millions of veterans stoned on “therapeutic” psychedelics to the tune of billions of dollars was so tempting that Shereef Elnahal, then VA Under Secretary for Health, tried to convince the FDA to approve the party drug Ecstasy for medical use. A $30 million clinical trial riddled with almost universal adverse events led the FDA to reject the substance. (As reported by Freedom, Elnahal had close financial ties to a pharmaceutical company likely to profit heavily were Ecstasy approved.)
Like Ecstasy, there is zip scientific evidence that magic mushrooms do anything but generate “side” effects that range from dangerous to deadly: confusion, fear, hallucination, headache, high blood pressure, nausea, paranoia, mania, cardiac arrest and death.
To repeat: Death is a “side effect” of a substance psychiatrists hail as “therapeutic.”
To foist a deadly poison on a population in the guise of “help” only to pocket the profits while your victims suffer is the action of a drug cartel, not a legitimate profession.
The only difference between a drug cartel and the psychiatric–Big Pharma industrial complex is this: one gets called organized crime, while the other calls itself “medicine.”
