They don't use the word placebo in Great Britain? Well a placebo effect is when someone takes a substance that has no effect but mentally they expect it to have an effect or think it has an effect and thus they receive an effect. I imagine you have seen here where someone may smoke smoking that shouldn't get them high because it was dirt weed but they feel baked of their ass? My self made definition was bad so let me help you with official definitions .

placebo effect: The beneficial effect in a patient following a particular treatment that arises from the patient's expectations concerning the treatment rather than from the treatment itself.

placebo: a medication prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder (2) : an inert or innocuous substance used especially in controlled experiments testing the efficacy of another substance (as a drug) b : something tending to soothe

Ok, see it normally is used in medicine like giving a patient a pill that is nothing more than sugar and telling them it will help and because they expect it to help, they get better. You can fools children really easily with this. Most drug trials are done as double blind studies where half the group gets the investigational drug and the other half gets a placebo because if you didn't give it to them, the results of the clinical trial would be off because half would otherwise get nothing and they might actually "feel worse." Also, they keep who is getting placebo and drug from those who are conducting the study until the very.

So I am guessing in the context of this board you may have seen someone get high that smoked dirt weed from placebo effect or smoked a ball of tar thinking it was full of resin and thought they were high or "got higher" because someone said this bag of mids was really kush, etc.
FakeBoobsRule Reviewed by FakeBoobsRule on . placebo. hello, im new to these forums and see loads of people talking about 'placebo'. now i really dont know what this is and nobody uses this word from my parts :( anyone care to explain what this famous 'placebo' is? thankyou :rastasmoke: spleeee up on me :D Rating: 5