On: Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst?

[photochemsyn]

It's a bit odd that this article doesn't even mention the fact that psychedelic treatments for depression, if widely successful, would likely destroy a major fraction of anti-depressant sales across the United States. That's an obvious reason the pharmaceutical industry would be pushing back against this.

[mousetree → photochemsyn]

If they were widely successful, why wouldn't the pharmaceutical industry offer psychedelic treatments?

[akomtu → mousetree]

Because it would be wildly efficient and cheap. All your permanently depressed clintee would be gone and with them your profits.

[LouisSayers → mousetree]

The problem is barriers to entry. If made legal there'd be very little barrier to entry for people (or companies) to grow mushrooms.

There's a lot stopping people from producing patented drug concoctions.