Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency in charge of media, pulled the plug on the open forum because it contains advice on
how to grow «magic mushrooms», a
psychedelic drug.
And for anyone who suspects that hemp brownies are truly a throwback to the 60s, let me say, first of all, that the hemp seeds in these are the edible kind, so you are not ingesting any mind - altering chemicals whatsoever here (unless you count the flood of serotonins in the brain due to their heavenly taste); and second of all, hemp is not the same thing as hash, and of course the classic hippie confection was a hash brownie; and third of all,
how the heck would I even know, because I never did manage to consume any of the latter, even in my undergrad days, because I am such a nerd that nobody ever offered me any, and hash brownies never appealed to me, anyway — I mean, why sully your chocolate with
psychedelic drugs?
Now, researchers who've studied
how perceptions of meaning change when people take the
psychedelic drug known as LSD have traced that sense of meaningfulness to particular neurochemicals and receptors in the brain.