Given the results of these studies, we we wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing motivational posters with the phrase "A trip a day keeps the doctor away" printed on them in Comic Sans.

Two new studies are challenging the belief that psychedelic drugs lead to mental illness by showing no association between the two in clinical trials.In fact, one of them actually found an association between psychedelics and reduced psychological distress.

And of course we know that shrooms are the most effective smoking cessation device, and that LSD can help depression, anxiety, and addictive behavior.

Well, shit. If Colorado legalized weed … you never know what might come next.

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Two new studies are challenging the belief that psychedelic drugs lead to mental illness by showing no association between the two.  In fact, one of them actually found an association between psychedelics and reduced psychological distress.

The psychedelics investigated in both studies are the so-called “classical” psychedelics, which are LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, and mescaline. Drugs like ketamine, MDMA and DMT were left out of the mix.

The first study conducted a massive meta-analysis of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. After sifting through 135,095 respondents, they found that almost 14% of Americans have used one of the classical psychedelics at some point in their lives. Next, they examined 11 indicators of mental health problems such as schizophrenia, depression and suicidality and sought to look for relationships between these and psychedelic use.

However, they failed to do that. As reported in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, they found there was no link between psychedelic use and the development of mental health problems. Conversely, they actually found that psychedelics were associated with fewer mental health problems.

For the second study, published in the same journal, researchers examined the effects of psychedelics on both adverse mental health effects and suicidality, the latter of which had not been previously investigated. They found that use of classical psychedelics was associated with a reduced likelihood of psychological distress, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts. And when you think about the fact that most completely legal SSRI antidepressants can actually increase thoughts of suicide, psychedelics start to look like a pretty viable option.

Beyond those findings, we also know that shrooms are the most effective smoking cessation device, and that LSD can help depression, anxiety, and addictive behavior.

“With these robust findings,” lead author of one of the studies, Pål-Ørjan Johansen, said in a news release, “it is difficult to see how prohibition of psychedelics can be justified as a public health measure.”

Well, shit. If Colorado legalized weed … you never know what might come next.