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Daniel Keane

Magic mushrooms compound ‘effective at treating depression in cancer patients’

The psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms has been found to reduce symptoms of depression in people with cancer, according to a trial.

More than half of patients (57 per cent) who received with a single dose of 25mg of psilocybin were in remission from depression 18 months later, researchers found.

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