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Magic mushrooms ‘less harmful than thought’ , says leading psychiatrist

Magic mushrooms ‘less harmful than thought’ , says leading psychiatrist

Researchers are beginning to look again at how LSD and psilocybin – the active compound in magic mushrooms – might be of benefit in the treatment of addiction, for obsessive compulsive disorder and even, according to one small Swiss study,

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