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Why Alcohol Is A Demon But Mushrooms Are Medicine

Why Alcohol Is A Demon But Mushrooms Are Medicine

Why Big Pharma And Big Alcohol should be having diarrhea in the streets.

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Look:

I was tripping balls on mushrooms in West Edmonton Mall, 1998. Security guards searching everywhere for my echoey laughter while I'm having a spiritual awakening inside a giant bronze whale. "Kashmir" blasting in my headphones because, even back then, I knew some revelations need a Led Zeppelin soundtrack. I stopped mushrooms then, because after I felt what I’d felt, I knew I was too young to pierce the veil again for a while.

FAST FORWARD:
Now I'm a mom who trades wine for mushrooms because I've figured something out.

Something so fucking basic.

Here's what Big Alcohol and Big Pharma don't want you to know: While they're pushing addictive substances that literally kill brain cells, the most powerful mental health medicines on earth either grow for free in nature or can be synthesized for pennies.

The alcohol industry spends billions convincing us their poison is "good times," while pharmaceutical companies spend billions convincing us we need their daily drugs - and they're both terrified of what's happening in research labs right now...

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