The year is 2026. You find yourself at the pharmacy poised to collect your psilocybin prescription. The pharmacist hands you an orange pill bottle containing a single 25 milligram pill. Your mind drifts back to your recreational psychedelic days weighing out 3.5 grams of dried psilocybe AKA magic mushrooms and you wonder if you’ve been given a microdose.
At 25 mg, this aligns with the standard therapeutic dose used in clinical trials that test psilocybin’s efficacy in the treatment of various mental illnesses. It isn’t a microdose, it’s just a synthetic one. Psilocybin synthesized in the lab by chemists rather than in the mushroom by the mushroom.