(The Center Square) – Mental health care providers are rediscovering new uses for old medicines.

Recent findings demonstrating the efficacy of psilocybin , the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have led some lawmakers to reconsider their classification as drugs of abuse.

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Among the drugs’ most stalwart supporters are military veterans who have seen psychedelics benefit otherwise intractable cases of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

Marine Corps veteran and firefighter Ryan Gardill, president of the Manheim

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