Can tiny amounts of LSD help people as they approach the end of their cancer journeys? That’s what a world-first University of Auckland trial aims to find out, with researchers hoping to recruit Māori people for half its participants. We’re more likely to think of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) as a mind-bending recreational drug than as a pharmaceutical treatment. But, as a growing number of studies have found, taking extremely small doses of it might prove a useful alternative therapy.
Around the world, sufferers of depression have increasingly been turning to “micro-dosing” – that’s typically taking 5 or 10% of a full dose of a psychedelic hallucinogen – as self-treatment..
