Shroom Boom? Here s why investors say psychedelics are the next stock to watch
Medical research is proving the potential psychedelic mushrooms hold when it comes to healing mental health. Now, investors are looking to cash in. Author: Adriana De Alba Updated: 6:23 PM EDT May 25, 2021
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Inside of an unassuming building in Virginia Beach, something is growing.
It’s where Ryan Staab’s fascination for shrooms blossomed.
After learning about the benefits of different mushroom varieties, he turned it into a business: Capstone Mushrooms. It’s an indoor farm of sorts, where he grows and sells hard-to-find gourmet mushrooms.
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I use CBD to self-treat my anxiety, but I ve never found it to be foolproof. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn t. The route of administration plays a big part in what works for me. Ingestibles and inhalants have a greater effect on me than topicals, for example, though the effectiveness of these products varies wildly from person to person.
So when I first heard about the Curfew Dream Blanket the first CBD-infused blanket on the market I was curious but skeptical, so I set out to test the supposed sleep aid. I wanted to answer some specific questions: How was the blanket infused with CBD? Would I feel any calming effects when using it? How long would the effects last? Would it help me sleep? Is this a legitimate way to administer CBD?
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Among the recreational drugs currently entering the psychiatric mainstream (MDMA, LSD, etc.), ketamine is something of an outlier. Most people have a rough idea of what “acid” or “molly” are supposed to do, even if they’ve never tried them. Ketamine, meanwhile, remains outside of a committed sect an enigma. It’s not a very popular recreational drug. There is no standard Hollywood version of the ketamine trip. You hear talk of k-holes, and the occasional allusion to its use as a horse tranquilizer, but little on its actual effects, and less on what it’s like to take it in a clinical setting, which more and more patients with depress