Claims

Pharmacology is enabling human experience of consciousness states that were rare, fleeting occurrences for thousands of years to become available nearly on demand through pills; what exists in pill form today will exist in technological form tomorrow, scaling these states.

The concentration of psilocybin in different strains of magic mushrooms varies tremendously, ranging anywhere from 0.5% to 2% of dry weight, meaning that someone taking the same gram amount of mushrooms from different batches could be ingesting anywhere from 5mg to 20mg of psilocybin depending on strain and batch variability.

The typical duration of a psilocybin journey is 4 to 6 hours, with effects beginning 30 to 45 minutes after ingestion, a peak component with maximum emotional intensity and anxiety around 2 hours in, followed by gradual tapering described as 'parachuting back in' toward the 6-hour mark.

Coca leaves chewed in their natural form by Andean farmers produce mild stimulant effects comparable to coffee, with no severe long-term health consequences beyond possibly dental decay.

When the coca plant is industrially refined into its most concentrated form (crack cocaine), the humble coca leaf transforms into a lethally addictive drug with severe consequences.

Most addictive substances (heroin, cocaine, alcohol) are safe or mild in their natural form and become dangerous only after industrial refinement concentrates the active compounds.

Ayahuasca is a combination of DMT (an extremely powerful hallucinogenic lasting only 10 minutes) and a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (which stops the breakdown of DMT and extends the experience to 8 hours), and indigenous Amazonians had to locate and combine two geographically separated plants from among hundreds of thousands of plants and boil them properly—a discovery they used for approximately 15,000 years.

Lithium orotate is the most common form of lithium available over the counter, possibly due to research suggesting its greater effectiveness at lower dosages, attributed to its ability to penetrate cells and the blood-brain barrier more easily compared to other forms