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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A new clinical trial from Johns Hopkins University produced results that surprised even the researchers behind it. Participants who took a single dose of psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, had more than six times greater odds of being cigarette-free at the six-month mark compared to those using nicotine […]\n\nThe post A single dose of psilocybin gave smokers six times better odds of quitting than the patch first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
  "title": "A single dose of psilocybin gave smokers six times better odds of quitting than the patch"
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