Magic Mushrooms Ease Anxiety Of Cancer Patients

Results of a new study suggest that an ingredient in magic mushrooms may ease anxiety felt by cancer patients.

This discovery would make very good sense, as people do in fact take magic mushrooms to get high and to forget about life and its problems.

Researchers say that a chemical found in magic mushrooms called psilocybin is at play here as it acts as a hallucinogen.

The ingredient was tested on 12 terminally ill cancer patients for up to a six month time frame.

After this time, patients scored an average of 30 points less on a scale used to measure depression than the did when they were not taking the ingredient.

The study can be found in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

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