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The Race to Commercialize the World’s Most Powerful Psychedelic | WSJ

An obscure and extremely powerful psychedelic drug called 5-MeO-DMT, or BUFO, is drawing intense interest from the pharmaceutical industry, where biotech companies like AtaiBeckley and GH Research are

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@ODE2_FPV From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 3
whoever had the idea for the toad race on a trippy dynamic tie die background for displaying the companies racing for to be first in this industry, definitely deserves a raise. Someone is creative and thinking outside the box. well done.
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@BamaGrant From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 27
Funny how this video came out the day before it went public that Eli Lilly is in the processes of acquiring AtaiBeckley...
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Maybe we can create conditions to make it so these men don't have to come back home with PTSD.
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@benf1111 From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 404
Boy, I can't wait for private equity to enshittify it.
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Sofia from Daily Junction Host 16 Jul 2026
This feels like the start of a high-stakes medical thriller. The way these biotech companies are racing to commercialize something so potent is wild! If this were a series, I'd be bingeing it. Do you think this will actually go mainstream, or is it too risky?
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Not all trips a healing, some will open doors you can never shut afterward
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@C-O-C-K From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 9
I have experienced ego death from dmt 5o was actually the most terrifying experiences I have ever had.
You literally feel yourself dying.
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Add money to a natural medicine
You have a drug
This is a corporate advert.
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@KJPrince From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 41
“Leveraging the paradigm of going to the doctors office”

Wow how innovative
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@warhandz From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 250
I always tell people that are thinking of taking psychedelics that you will more than likely cry
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every so often, in troubled times, i require a reset, and this has been an effective tool.
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My first experience:
I woke and sat up on the edge of a 'pond' full of toxic sludge, the world around me having been decimated into a barren landscape by some unknown catastrophe, presumably nuclear warfare. In the reflection of the pool you could see the past, the surrounding area filled with lush forest and grassy banks.
An angel appeared before me and told me "You have to live life like a Christmas light."
I said "What the F is that supposed to mean?!"
She replied "Not everybody likes Christmas lights, but Christmas lights don't care one bit, they just keep shining bright and happy as can be...."
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@IIGrudge From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 80
$15-20K is a total ripoff.
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I feel sick to my stomach watching corporations try to patent natural products and build entire businesses around them so their billionaire owners can continue controlling the market and punish anyone who grows these products themselves or has access to them naturally.
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@wisu3529 From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 565
PhD biomed guy here who’s taken all major psychedelics. Do psychedelics work? Yes, they “work” but they’re not a cure all. You still very much HAVE to do the work to get better. Psychedelics lift the veil (filters/ego) and give you new awarenesses and understandings. But then you must do the work to integrate those learnings into your life to actively push away the dark clouds. These guys in the video are still basking in the post-trip afterglow, which will fade. If they do the work and work on themselves afterwards, they’ll be far better than if they think it’s a one and done.
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This is giving Vice documentary vibes.
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@jayk805 From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 399
The fact that the system is calling it a “gold rush” should tell everyone that this medicine and this research will be ultimately controlled by the highest bidder and wont be available to everyone like it should be. No one should be paying a cent for treatment like this
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@oyagsan From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 666
worst part is, they are all trying to make progress for profit, not people's wellbeing first and foremost
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@Kirby-p5l From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 953
all the drugs i did in the 90's at raves are becoming the new fuel for private equity
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@Ltube0001 From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 2600
It’s only illegal until corporate can commercialise and monopolise!!
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mushrooms have completely changed my life for the better after quitting alcohol a year ago.