"Psychedelic drug use appears to be increasing in Australia.

The latest National Drug Strategy Household Survey from 2022–23 saw the percentage of Australians who used a psychedelic drug rise from 1.6 per cent in 2019 to 2.4 per cent three years later taking the number of people who use these drugs annually up to about 500,000 people."

I wonder if this is because alcohol is harder to afford for many now ?

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    1 month ago

    Yea that’s the scare tactic bullshit I read too. Wildly unscientific.

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      1 month ago

      It looks like it was a qualitative study in an identified literature gap. Which parts of it are wildly unscientific?

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            1 month ago

            The sarcasm isn’t necessary. Anybody that uses them with any regularity is aware of wlp if they know it’s name or not

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              Im a bit lost at your point? You said it’s a scare tactic, I said it’s a qualitative study in an identified literature gap. You said anyone who uses them knows about WLP… I’m not quite sure about what side you’re on?