I'm super stoked that you found something that works for you. I'm hoping the near future finds more uses for natural substances. My wife and I watched a documentary that showed some of the advantages of these types of things.
In one study, the Psilocybin was used to treat deep depression. Most of the test subjects were healed permanently, and the rest showed almost complete reversal but needed small doses after several months. All of them had immediate relief though which was shocking for all.
I've seen the effects of mushrooms first hand, but I have not gone down that rabbit hole myself.
Look into Ibogaine if those sorts of documentaries interest you. That one is super interesting to me. Just as with psilocybin and depression, this stuff seems to break addiction with a single use, and there are no withdrawal effects, even for opiate addiction. Yet, because it also causes hallucinations, it has been looked down on pretty hard, and remains a Schedule I controlled substance in the US. Yep, the same US that complains about the opioid epidemic, and putting "free" narcan in vending machines all over the place, but isn't willing to look at a plant that has the potential to wipe out opioid addiction for good (or any other chemical dependence) because of self righteous and sanctimonious overzealous moralists. Not to mention that big pharma would poop their pants over it. How are they going to make money if their drugs aren't being pushed and sold and used?
In any case, the fact that legal status has held us back from learning about these plants and what they contain, how it can be used, etc.....it annoys the living poop out of me. Humans can be incredibly short-sighted creatures. This is a prime example of exactly that. We are now at a point where, yeah, we know that psilocybin can be an EXTREMELY effective treatment for depression, and yet, the majority of people just think "oh, just some dirty hippies getting high again" and so it remains illegal. It's not addictive, it's not harmful, and I have never even heard of a "mushroom addict" because they don't exist.
Why this remains illegal is because it scares those with less-than-open mindsets.
I think shrooms have some recreational value. People eat them because they can be fun. But in this instance, that's not even what's happening.
I dunno if you guys have ever snorted tobacco (snuff) but it's not necessarily fun. It burns, it stings, the drip tastes awful, etc... And this is just regular tobacco. Rapé contains a very much stronger variety of tobacco, a variety that you wouldn't want to use in a cigarette or anything else, it's much more potent (and unpleasant) and that's why it's used in this particular concoction. It's also usually blown into the nose through a tube by another person, rather than sucked into one's nasal passages on their own.
It's really kinda like if people were to get all upset that there's alcohol in the communion wine and therefore all those who partake in the sacrament must be alcoholics and need help. Haha
