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As far as I'm aware, we still don't know why they produce psilocybin. Something that takes 30+ minutes to begin affecting you seems like a poor defense mechanism.
We know with certainty that capsaicin does act as a deterrent against consumption, and capsaicin acts immediately...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And doesn't deter me in the least. Pass the hot sauce, please!
Most of the ones with toxins strong enough to kill you won't do so for months after you consumed it a single time. They know something about playing the long game.
i wonder how a chemical that can distort perception of time and space could be a useful defense mechanism...... harder to find the mushroom when you cant remember where you ate it.
They produce psilocybin because Satan told them to
It's just a guess, but it's probably protection against other species than mammals (psilocybin I mean)...
Regarding capsaicin, it's protecting against (almost) everything that is isn't a bird, birds don't feel the capsaicin AFAIK.
Also humans, including myself: willingly eats food containing high amounts of capsaicin, something chillies evolved to produce to prevent animals from eating them
We are a weird species.
The human regularly exposes itself to solar radiation and consumes flavoured liquid toxin for recreational purposes, and yet it does not die, instead it develops a tolerance to these hazards. Science team is reminded to take extreme caution when studying this lifeform.
Not all animals. Mammals (spicy, ow) and insects (insecticide). Birds are unaffected and are the pepper's preferred "conveyance method" for their seeds. It's neat!
Plants, like frat boys, are just trying to plant seeds far and wide. Birds help with that, in the plants case.
Yes, but I did read that the leading theory is that the seeds are too fragile for chewing, which is a mostly mammalian thing.
Spice preserves, kills dangerous organisms in food. That's why, the higher the average temperature, the spicier the food. Well, except maybe europe, it's more olive oil and vinegar in the southern parts here.
At first, you had my attention, but now you have my interest.
And now you have...oh my fucking god you have my hands give them back!! Oh wait I forgot to cover the mirror.
Fucking mirrors are the worst.
Okay, noted... Read Dorian Gray on mushrooms...
It's a funny way to put animals off - they might have the most sublime, healing and fascinating time or a completely terrifying one but the fact remains that because it takes the best part of an hour to kick in they will probably still have no idea what caused it.
Tell that to the reindeer known for enjoying Amanita Muscaria mushrooms.
I would kill for an LSD source.
Shrooms make me feel so much more self-conscious when I'm tripping for some reason. LSD is much more enjoyable to me, but much harder to source as you can't just grow it yourself from an internet kit.
And there's such a thing as bad LSD, which really sucks. Those quasi-legal, almost LSD analogues often sold as genuine LSD, but with glitchy side-effects.
Legalized drugs can be regulated and quality-controlled, and should be. Fuck Reagan for many, many reasons, including his "war on drugs."
That is a bit older than Reagan, war on drugs is a Nixon thing, but I agree with the general sentiment. Fuckem both.
Arguably it goes back to the end prohibition era and the outlawing of marijuana.
And the marijuana stuff leads back to both the tobacco and wood fiber industries. Cannabis is a threat to tobacco, and hemp is a threat to darn near everything wood fiber is used for. That one even more so because it grows so dramatically faster than a new forest.
I have heard of this. I remember reading once that sailing ships used hemp for their cloth because it was plentiful and durable. No idea where I saw that though
Definitely, but he was the one with the campaign that was named, or became known as "the war on drugs," unless I'm tripping
Yeah, I think he just comes to mind first because of the whole "D.A.R.E" thing, and his horrible effects on literally everything are still felt so profoundly today.
Since 1P-LSD has been available the chances of getting nBOMe'd are much lower.
One might think that easy access to drugs is actually safer.
1P gives me anxiety. It's on my no-fly list.
Can you just go get a bunch of morning glory seeds and eat those instead? They're packed full of LSA, which feels very similar.
Holy shit, thanks for the rabbit hole friend!
This looks promising! I haven't done my six month mental refresh in 2 years. Might be a lovely weekend 🤞
Store bought seeds ~~probably~~ have nasty pesticides all over them so I would not recommend this. Not to mention it takes a ton of morning glory seeds. If you really want to try this, I would recommend ordering some Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds.
That said…the mental and visual effects are very different from LSD, LSA has a MASSIVE body load that most people find extremely unpleasant, and the experience is many times coupled with hours of extreme nausea.
Depending on your country you may be able to legally or semi-legally be able to buy an LSD pro-drug (chemical that breaks down into LSD so is essentially the same thing) such as 1P-LSD or 1D-LSD.
Or he could just do a cwe extraction.
That would not solve the issues of pesticides, body load, or completely different effects and would likely have minimal impact on nausea.
It certainly helps with the vasoconstriction ("body load"). It somewhat helps with the nausea as well.
Vasoconstriction is not the cause of the unpleasant body load from LSA or at least not the primary cause. Not to mention that there is no reason a “cold water extraction” would have any effect on the vasoconstrictive substance’s level of vasoconstriction. I also said in my previous comment it would have minimal impact on the nausea. Many psychedelics naturally produce nausea; NBOMes, mescaline, and 2C drugs to name a few.
Anyone taking LSA should do a CWE, it’s the only way that make sense. But the point of doing so is ease of dosing and removal of the nasty seed hull and plant oils that add all sorts of nausea to the already physically trying experience.
Saying doing a CWE of LSA is very similar is not accurate for all the reasons listed before, which is the only reason I jumped in. OP would be much better off searching for a legal/gray-market alternative like a LSD prodrug, other lysergamides like AL-LAD/ETH-LAD, trying other tryptamines like metocin or acetylpsilocin to see if he can avoid the undesirable effects he experiences from shrooms, or trying mescaline analogues if tryptamines just aren’t for him.
But if someone was to want to try LSA, buying HBWR is a vastly superior option to morning glory as a dose would be something like 3-8 seeds versus the hundreds you would need for morning glory. I can’t imagine it is easy to find hundreds of morning glory seeds at all, except covered in pesticide in the garden section of Walmart, while you can easily order HBWR online. Not to mention there is way less plant material to start with, making the entire process easier.
If you go to a music festival, it'll probably come to you . I wish lsd didn't last so damn long, I got stuff to do.
2C-B? (not that it's as grandiose as an acid trip though...)
It's so sketchy these days with "designer drugs". You never know what you're actually getting.
That's like Capsaicin, which was supposed to deter mammals so birds could eat the fruit and "drop" the seeds in a distant place.
And now we are cultivating peppers. So the strategy still worked evolutionarily speaking, only not like the peppers intended.
only not like the peppers intended.
I know what you're saying but also that's not how evolution works. More of a case of "the reason why an adaptation proves advantageous may change completely over time."
And now I'm dropping them in the chipotle bathroom
Whatever is in the background looks like they have a nice arse
It’s a homoerotic Greek statue of two men wrestling. Leonardo DiCaprio’s character traded in slaves who were made to fight hand to hand to the death, and a lot of the art in the house reflected that.