New trials have shown the drug psilocybin to be highly effective in treating depression, with Oakland the latest US city to in effect decriminalise it last week. Lying on a bed in London’s Hammersmith hospital ingesting capsules of psilocybin, the active ingredient of magic mushrooms, Michael had little idea what would happen next. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A room at Imperial College where patients take magic mushrooms. Magic mushrooms lift severe depression in clinical trial Read moreForty-year-old operations manager Melissa Elwin is among them. For so long, I felt my depression was part of me, there was nothing I could do to change it.

Source: The Guardian June 10, 2019 06:56 UTC