News 'Magic Mushroom' Drug Edges Toward Mainstream Therapy

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'Magic Mushroom' Drug Edges Toward Mainstream Therapy​

Dennis Thompson
HealthDay/Drugs.com
6 Dec 2021

Tony Head was depressed and fearing death from stage 4 prostate cancer when, as part of a supervised scientific trial, he took a large dose of the psychedelic agent in "magic mushrooms," psilocybin.

Head donned a mask and headphones to shut out the world around him, and had an experience that changed the course of his life.

"At some point in that time I felt like a higher power or something -- I didn't see anything, I didn't see any type of image -- I felt like something connected and touched me and as soon as it did, I just started crying," Head, an award-nominated actor who lives in New York City, said in an interview with HealthDay Now.

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This should make some people happy (no pun intended).