Fun fact: ibotenic acid is a muscimol prodrug and rather toxic for humans. You can filter the mushrooms through reindeer and drink their piss to get more muscimol than ibotenic acid.
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Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 1 month agoAlso, despite what some mushroom books will say, it’s not the 🤮😵 kind of poison (except in rare cases)
It’s the 😵💫🤤 kind of poison
django@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I remember reading ages ago that reindeer do that the other way around too - they learned to drink human piss when the farmers ate the mushrooms because it would get them high. So now reindeer are attracted to Siberian herder piss.
I have no clue if that anecdote has held up, the book I read it in was on some real hippie shit
theneverfox@pawb.social 1 month ago
Well, FWIW, I drank my own pee. It tasted like mushroom tea… Then the next time, it tasted like piss. Very much night and day
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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Shareni@programming.dev 1 month ago
Or human piss, or you know…decarb it in the oven.
punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It might not be the 😵 kind of poison but it is absolutely the 🤮 kind of poison, even when decarbed. I’d describe it as 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮😵💫🤮😵💫🤮😵💫🤮😵💫😴😴😴 and definitely not 🤤 at any point.
Shareni@programming.dev 1 month ago
That’s why you decarb it to convert Ibo to muscimol…
punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Read slower. It was decarbed.
Shareni@programming.dev 1 month ago
My bad.
Depends on your tastes really. That’s like saying LSD is a strictly better experience than alcohol. They’re completely different types of psychoactive compounds.
Also, it’s not like other mushrooms don’t cause nausea. I know people who’ve literally spent hours vomiting after eating cubes.