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[–] Depress_Mode 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also, despite what some mushroom books will say, it's not the 🤮😵 kind of poison (except in rare cases)

It's the 😵‍💫🤤 kind of poison

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's why you decarb it to convert Ibo to muscimol...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Read slower. It was decarbed. The conversion is never perfect, and given that there are much better options available for mushroom induced experiences I would highly dissuade anyone from macro dosing A. muscaria

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

My bad.

there are much better options available for mushroom induced experiences

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 days ago

I respect and am grateful for your service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Or human piss, or you know...decarb it in the oven.