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Comment on Magic mushroom use rises despite concerns about little known paralysis syndrome

Such stupid sensationalism. It’s called Wood Lovers Paralysis and is common with azuracens and somewhat with psilocybes. It’s literally just the weak feeling that sometimes adds to the body load during come up. It goes away before the drugs even fully kick in.

Better make people scared of the safest drug out there, they might think for themselves otherwise.

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SarahFromOz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Who to believe?

“Wood-lover’s Paralysis (WLP) is an extremely rare, but potentially fatal, toxidrome causing unpredictable muscle weakness.

Dr Simon Beck, an MD in his final year of psychiatry training, and Mr Caine Barlow MSc, a mycologist and education officer for Ethnogenesis Australis, along with Dr Monica Barratt and Dr Liam Engel, have been the first to describe Wood-lover’s Paralysis in a study published in Toxicon.

According to the Victorian Coroner’s report, released this month, WLP was potentially associated with the death of Rachael Lee Dixon, who ingested magic mushrooms at a wellness retreat last year.”

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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Well unpredictable muscle weakness is your indicator right there .
  
  You could die from muscle paralysis in shrooms, same way you could die from being hit in the chest with a puck playing hockey at just the right millisecond in your cardiac beat.
  
  Possible doesn’t mean likely.
  
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- y0kai@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Lol they cant even say that she died of it, only that they “couldn’t rule it out”
  
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- JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yea that’s the scare tactic bullshit I read too. Wildly unscientific.
  
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- Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Plenty of morons manage to bumble their way through medical school, this study is the only one to ever describe this alleged syndrome, and there are obvious political motives and extremely well documented previous examples of academics falsifying data to support drug prohibition, so I’m gonna go ahead and not believe this at all
  
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- Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  the death of Rachael Lee Dixon, who ingested magic mushrooms at a wellness retreat last year.
  
  Nine Perfect Strangers?
  
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