Get Ready for Pharmaceutical-Grade Magic Mushroom Pills

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> Johns Hopkins researchers have claimed they've paid labs $7,000 to $10,000 per gram of psilocybin, whereas the street price of magic mushrooms is around $10 per gram.

apples to oranges. the question is: how much psilocybin is in those 10$ worth of mushrooms

at 2% (extremely powerful) of a 5grams dried mushrooms that’s 0.1g of psilocybin for 10$. that means 1 gram of psilocybin is 100$ if you were to buy the mushrooms. consider that average mushrooms are not even close to 2% so it’s most likely 3-400$. so you’re paying 10-20x for pharmaceutical grade which is not surprising at all.

That's still 10-20x the cost plus the financial and other costs of the prescription services.

The problem is taking something that people have found deep benefit from, criminalizing it, and then reintroducing it at a profit for a designated monopoly.

Few things are as blatantly illustrative of the nature of some of the problems with the US health care system. It's a form of health appropriation.

that's true. it's also true that as soon as the substance itself is going to be decriminalized people will have a cheaper alternative in the mushrooms themselves (think about it as off-brand, original drugs)

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