Chemical tweaks to a toad hallucinogen turns it into a potential drug

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/variant-of-a-toad-based-psychedelic-can-act-as-an-antidepressant/

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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (4 replies)

To be fair, it was already a drug.

antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

We show that a 5-HT1A-selective 5-MeO-DMT analogue is devoid of hallucinogenic-like effects while retaining anxiolytic-like and antidepressant-like activity in socially defeated animals.

Not sure how to phrase it but I guess making it more therapeutic, and less recreational makes it more likely to be a candidate for passing FDA regs.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

making it more therapeutic, and less recreational

BOOOOOOOOOO

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Without restrictions that would be great. Sometimes a healing journey is what you need, but sometimes you just want to be better. The problem is that our society has a problem with the journey

intensely_human@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

“a new, different drug” is one way to word it

iiGxC@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 2y

Don't forget, only buy synthetic 5-meo-dmt and let the toads be toads!