Much of what you hear about drugs actually comes from those selling them. Don’t be fooled. You need facts to make accurate judgments.
Clinical Tests for LSD as a Mental Health Drug
On September 4, 2025, several psychiatrists published a clinical trial concluding that “A single 100 ?g dose of MM120 (lysergide D-tartrate, LSD) significantly reduced anxiety symptoms in adults with generalized anxiety disorder.”
[JAMA.doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.13481]
Wow, sounds great! Until you read the fine print.
Forty people received the 100 ?g dose.
158 people received other dose amounts or placebo.
The most common adverse reactions were hallucinations, which occurred in 92.5% who received the 100 µg dose. No surprise there, LSD is a hallucinogen. We should point out here that hallucinations are not good mental health. Hallucinations are a serious disconnection from reality.
Only 65% of the subjects taking the 100 ?g dose had a measurable, positive effect (clinical response rate); and there was a 48% clinical remission rate sustained to week 12 (meaning only 48% of the 40 people taking the 100 µg dose showed their symptoms gone or reduced at the end of 12 weeks of observation.)
Obviously this is not a cure, since so many of the subjects had no benefit, and many would have to continue taking the drug to see any continuing reduction of symptoms.
Yet the psychiatrists conducting the study were elated that roughly half of their subjects had no lasting benefit, and most experienced hallucinations. Drug dealers, all. Who benefits? The ones selling the drugs.
LSD Facts
Lysergide D-tartrate (MM120) is a specific formulation of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) being tested for “Generalized anxiety disorder”, a diagnosis in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).
Note that the very same DSM-5 lists hallucinogens as causing anxiety disorder with the diagnosis of “Other hallucinogen-induced anxiety disorder”. So psychiatrists want to “treat” an anxiety disorder with the very drug that can cause it.
Other known side effects of LSD, besides hallucinations, are mood swings and impairment of one’s ability to make sensible judgments. Many taking LSD experience flashbacks, a recurrence of the LSD trip, long after taking the drug, because LSD accumulates in the body and can be released again into the blood stream without warning. Some develop a tolerance for the drug, meaning that they have to take it in increasingly higher doses to achieve the same effect.
An oral dose of as little as 25 ?g (equal in weight to a few grains of salt) is capable of producing vivid hallucinations; and this study recommends a dose of 100 ?g.
LSD was popularized in the 1960’s by psychologists and psychiatrists, creating an entire drug abuse culture, and government experiments to use LSD to control populations continued until the U.S. banned the drug in 1967.
Street drug dealers, also including the psychiatrists currently promoting LSD for your “mental health”, will say anything to get you to buy their drugs. They say it will “expand your mind”, and in this particular case they say it will “reduce your anxiety.”
LSD though directly affects the mind. It can distort one’s perception of what is happening around them. It blocks off all sensations, the desirable ones along with the unwanted anxiety ones. It muddy’s one’s thinking in order to make one less anxious.
We call this Informed Consent. Now that you know how LSD really “works”, do you still want to take it?
Replacing Prozac with LSD is Like Switching Seats on the Titanic
Today’s propaganda surrounding psychedelics smacks of the false assurances made in the 1990s about the chemical imbalance myth and how SSRIs were a revolutionary new treatment to correct the imbalance and improve depression. And in the same way this was done in the 1960s and ’70s when psychedelics were guaranteed as mental health improvers.
The theories behind how psychedelics “work” today remain hype rather than science. The dangers are already known.
We are seeing the same rapturous reception given psychedelics, buoyed by a re-hashed brain chemical theory and claims of a “renaissance” in mental health treatment. It took 30 years for the “chemical-imbalance-in-the-brain-causes-depression” myth to be fully recognized as pseudoscience and dangerously misleading to consumers. We should recognize the trademark signs of this same marketing scam with psychedelics and prevent America from “turning on and tuning out” to these mind-altering drugs before it is too late.
Read more about what anxiety really is and how to deal with it here.
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