webbykevin
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Just wanted to say how Impressed I have been with the recent presentations posted on the MAPS youtube channel, your work on and approach to psilocybin research is inspiring.
I have a question about the process of choosing volunteers, In most of the human trials/studies on psilocybin I've read about recently it seems to be a prerequisite that participants have no previous experience with psilocybin or preferably have no psychedelic history at all. (I can understand the reasons for this but feel it would be interesting when investigating the content of the experience to collate some data from experienced psychonaughts).
However I was surprised to hear in the recent presentation on Salvia that a requirement for the volunteers was that they were experienced previously with salvia, It wasn't clear about whether that meant they must have had Salvinorum A or just had experience with the plant in organic form.
So why the difference ?
the only reason I can think of it that because salvia has such a strong presentation psychologically that you wanted to be sure you didn't have people totally freaking out in the session and so experienced users would be more likely to be able to navigate through the high doses and that would provide you with a better chance of getting good data with less risk.
I have a question about the process of choosing volunteers, In most of the human trials/studies on psilocybin I've read about recently it seems to be a prerequisite that participants have no previous experience with psilocybin or preferably have no psychedelic history at all. (I can understand the reasons for this but feel it would be interesting when investigating the content of the experience to collate some data from experienced psychonaughts).
However I was surprised to hear in the recent presentation on Salvia that a requirement for the volunteers was that they were experienced previously with salvia, It wasn't clear about whether that meant they must have had Salvinorum A or just had experience with the plant in organic form.
So why the difference ?
the only reason I can think of it that because salvia has such a strong presentation psychologically that you wanted to be sure you didn't have people totally freaking out in the session and so experienced users would be more likely to be able to navigate through the high doses and that would provide you with a better chance of getting good data with less risk.
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