• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Is there a reason we haven’t tried this narcotic fungi?

    Shrooms are great, why not try other 'gi?

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      2 months ago

      Humans actually do, but they do it by drinking the reindeer piss after the reindeer have eaten it.

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      2 months ago

      I imagine it’s either there’s a chemical in the new fungi that specifically makes the rams high but not us or there is something in there that doesn’t affect them but is toxic to us

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      2 months ago

      Based on a cursory Google search with the terms “bighorn sheep”+“Psychoactive fungi” it would seem they are referring to rumors of a psychoactive lichen that have not been formally identified.

      -secondly, you don’t want to eat Amanita Muscaria aka fly agaric mushrooms unless you have thorough knowledge of what you’re doing. It contains a hepatotoxic compound (hence the deer piss reference in someone else’s comment) -and it should not be confused with the Psilocybin containing mushrooms AKA magic mushrooms. They do different things in the brain—The more you know 🌈 🌟