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I’ve been doing as much research around this as possible. Talking to people that use for recreation and researchers in the field of psychedelics. My understanding is basically our speech pathway in the brain is hardwired and involuntary. With psychedelics, new pathways are shown to be temporarily utilized. Brain plasticity and a lot of difficult to understand science stuff. Now a lot people have had their stutter go away while on a regular to high (macro -dose) or trippy doses, but usually comes back after it leaves the body. Another thought is that it temporarily removes the consciousness of planning out words in the brain that is again involuntary in people who stutter. And removing that removes the stutter. Not a lot of improvement was seen on daily micro doses though. It really needed that macro dose to utilize new pathways. On the dose he ingested all I can think is it permanently opened a new pathway and the brain involuntarily started using it. I actually spoke to researcher in psychedelics at a reputable university doing trials with it around depression and she was very interested in creating a trial around stuttering. Unfortunately because of restrictions around it, she said she would need help finding funding because it’s a huge hurdle because there’s regulations around a lot of the funding for basically illegal “drugs”. So that has been a no go so far. But there are psychedelic clinical trials around depression that a person who stutters could volunteer for and see if had any effect on their stutter. There was one other person that was cured. It was an older lady that had a severe life long stutter that was in hospice for cancer and was very depressed. They did a single ketamine therapy and she never stuttered again. You can look up all these things I have mentioned. Unfortunately stuttering isn’t a high funded condition so there are very trials and no one is trying to create a novel medication to help reduce stuttering. I’m all for the acceptance train of thought, but damn…that doesn’t mean we can’t accept it while still trying to find medical solutions to correct it. My next step is to try and find a way to reach out to Paul Stamets to see if he has ideas on funding.