re: Psilocybin 'magic mushroom' Biosynthesized Making Large Scale Production Possible

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Such incredible success with synthetic marijuana I'm sure this will be incredibly safe.

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"Synthetic marijuana" is not actually synthetic marijuana. It's synthetic cannabinoids that are purposely not the same as those found in marijuana so that they can skirt around drug laws. This is not remotely the same situation.

There are tons of synthetic psychedelics out there that are perfectly safe. The godfather of MDMA, Alexander Shulgin, had a DEA license to manufacture compounds in the 80s and spent his time synthesizing them, documenting them, and tripping on them, all safely, before the DEA took his license away. In the underground drug trade these other compounds aren't common, but they are available, and experienced trippers seek them out to try different types of trips. Other people have followed in his footsteps and created some safe, and legal (but not for long), derivatives.

So no, this isn't remotely the same as the "synthetic marijuana" situation