00:01
Which is safer to use? mdma or lsd? okay, so if we're talking about safety, we have to consider the physical safety and the psychological safety, because both of these drugs have very strong psychological effects.
00:18
So physical safety, first of all, is undoubtedly lsd is safer, because lsd doesn't kill you.
00:27
Lsd doesn't have long -term physical effects, whereas mdma, mdma can be fatal due to dehydration or hyperphemia.
00:39
This is typically if it's taken in the wrong setting.
00:43
For example, people take mdma in a club and they don't pay attention to their bodily needs and they die as a result.
00:53
If misused.
00:57
Whereas lsd, you don't tend to have that effect.
01:00
The only deaths because of lsd are because because, people have taken it and died of other causes, for example, alcohol poisoning, a fatal fall, for example.
01:12
So, mdma is more dangerous in the short term.
01:16
Also in the long term, mdma is neurotoxic if taken repeatedly in higher doses, whereas lsd is not.
01:27
So as far as physical effects go, lsd is definitely safer.
01:32
And neither of them have physical positives, so to speak.
01:37
It's not why people take them.
01:39
Psychological, there are potential benefits and risks to both of them.
01:45
So on the benefits side, mdma is considered in ptsd therapy.
01:53
So it's a potential treatment for ptsd because it is what we call, it induces feelings of empathy, it induces feelings of love, so it's a particular class of drug called an entactogen.
02:19
So it has potentially beneficial effects.
02:23
Lsd is a psychedelic, and psychedelics are also being considered for medicinal purposes, especially more mushrooms rather than lsd, but they are being considered in addiction, again ptsd, depression, and also especially for acceptance of death in terminal patients.
02:51
So again, these experiments are more on mushrooms, but lsd could potentially have a similar effect...