Amanita muscaria is NOT psychedelic though, it's a deliriant. It can cause hallucinations, but it is not serotonin based, and psychedelics work on serotonin receptors.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There's a valuable lesson here, and it's to avoid using comic strips to identify the mushrooms you should eat to trip.

[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 5 points 5 hours ago

Instead, rely on the comments

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 hours ago

He's got the mushroom in his hand as well as a pipe and a tab, I think they're just referring to psychs in general, but you're right, maybe they should've put more of a brown mushroom

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I want a source for that disparaging comment which is incorrect. Also it's not a psychedelic and the fact that you described it as such destroys your credibility. You have no idea what you were talking about and are repeating puritanical propaganda.

For shame. Maybe you should go talk about the reefers online.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Firstly, the comic above uses the word psychedelic while showing an Amanita Muscaria. I never called it that but honestly, I'm not an expert and don't know the technical definitions of that type of thing, I'm just a guy that likes mushrooms.

Outside of my personal experience of having about 30 minutes of fun followed by 6 hours of not fun, here is the first result I got when searching for 'amanita muscaria side effects'

Emerging Risks of Amanita Muscaria: Case Reports on Increasing Consumption and Health Risks

People can have all sorts of different reactions to mushrooms, like I've never died from eating raw false morels, but others have.

Do you have a souce that says Amanita Muscaria doesn't give most people nausea and diarrhea?

I have heard however that the juice produced from dehydration has a lot less unwanted side effects, but I didn't bother to test that myself.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There are several thousand years of case history that do not mention anything about these reports you mentioned with a government website. Reports that do not match my own experience. This mushroom has the longest recorded use of any drug plant or fungi in the northern hemisphere, and here you are spreading bullshit to help make it illegal. Now maybe you do not know that's what you're doing but that's what you're doing. The government is not a fucking reliable source.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 1 hour ago

Somehow I knew you wouldn't trust or read any source I could provide.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Bullshit!

Says who? I have done it both wet and dry many many times and never experienced that, and I've talked to people online about it a lot and nobody has mentioned that. So where are you getting this claim? I say that knowing that there are groups trying to make it illegal that have been spreading lies including that ibotenic acid causes brain bleeds based on a single discredited study repeated ad nauseam.

You are on some Reefer Madness bullshit aren't you? Admit it!

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe you are less susceptible to it, or are ingesting a variety more unique to your region, but nausea and diarrhea are extremely common side effects.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works -3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Throwing up not long after ingesting the tea is normal, yet you have no idea what you are talking about here.

You are cooperating in a puritanical campaign to make this mushroom illegal, maybe you don't realize that's what you are doing, but that is going out right now. Stop it.

You also have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Dude, relax and go mushrooming. All I said is it gives you the shits and there are better substances.

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

They really jumping down your throat, huh? Iv never done the red ones with the white dots, but Iv done a few different types. Also Iv read about mushrooms, what may look the same aint always the same. And then the same shroom (or same looking shroom) from another region can be vastly different.

And then yes we as people will react different than another person might react to the same shroom.

Anywhoots.