Why Magic Mushrooms Aren’t What You Think They Are

A Deep Look into The Psychiatric Potential of Psilocybin

“As a scientific phenomenon, if you can create a condition in which 70 percent of people will say they have had one of the most meaningful experiences of their life . . . that’s just incredible”

Roland Griffiths

In March of 2020, the entire world began to shut down as a response to the threat of COVID-19. In the United States, state after state shut down businesses and enacted shelter-in-place orders. Politicians made this drastic socio-economic decision largely due to epidemiologists who projected a maximum fatality count of 115 thousand in the United States alone. Our leaders reacted with an appropriate amount of urgency to this epidemic, however, this is not the only epidemic that deserves this level of attention.

Another epidemic in our country has gone on for years, quietly and swiftly debilitating millions while remaining widely unrecognized and underreported. I am talking, of course, about the mental health epidemic, which, instead of targeting older generations like COVID-19, victimizes the youth. While Coronavirus has tragically killed 130 thousand citizens in the US, over 48 thousand citizens died by suicide in 2018 alone. As the world focuses its resources on a vaccine to end the Coronavirus epidemic, the mental health epidemic persists with no end in sight.