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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microdosing

By Anna Codrea-Rado — 2017

In the first installment of our new column on drugs and nightlife, we spoke to an expert about the benefits of taking tiny quantities of acid.

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It Makes Me Enjoy Playing with the Kids: Is Microdosing Mushrooms Going Mainstream?

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Those of us who are professional counselors are perhaps most likely to recognize psychedelic drugs by their recreational or street names — acid, magic mushrooms, ecstasy — and to consider them to be drugs of abuse that may be dangerous to our clients.

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A new generation of research into psilocybin could change how we treat numerous mental health conditions.

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