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Mar 2021 Observational

Self-Blinding Citizen Science to Explore Psychedelic Microdosing

Szigeti B, Kartner L, Blemings A, et al. — Imperial College London

Published in eLife

LSDPsilocybin Microdosing

191 people who already microdosed ran a self-blinding protocol at home, mixing placebo capsules into their own supply without knowing which was which. Both groups improved over 4 weeks, with no meaningful difference between microdose and placebo — the largest placebo-controlled microdosing dataset to date, and the strongest evidence that microdosing's reported benefits are substantially a placebo effect.

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