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Comment by pmoriarty

First, this study has only been done on rodents.

Second, the reason they call it "non-hallucinogenic" is because the rodents didn't exhibit the so-called "head-twitch response" (or "HTR").

While the HTR in rodents has often (always?) been correlated to substances which have psychedelic (the term "hallucinogenic" is a misnomer) properties in humans, that's no guarantee that the novel compound used in this study won't have psychedelic effects in humans, despite the HTR in rodents.

Finally, since this study was done only on rodents, we still don't know whether it will have any therapeutic effects in humans, or even whether it will be safe.

parent pmoriarty 4 years ago

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