Chewbaccas_a_Furry

What aspects of psychoactive mushrooms are you studying and how do you study them on the road? Or is all the science done back home in the university lab? I'm just really curious as to how you study the psychoactive effects without testing them on yourself. Do you have someone else to act as a control or do you just study the chemical attributes of each mushroom. (Note: I am not a scientist)

Follow up question: how many different types of psychoactive mushrooms are there and are there some really rare, exotic ones that aren't easily available that you've had the pleasure of "discovering"?

Thank you for responding and the informative answer!! :D

It all sounds extremely interesting and I definitely want to read your thesis when its all said and done.

Although it's not entirely related to what you are studying, it would be very interesting to see if indigenous peoples used the mushrooms for spiritual rituals and the like. I'm sure you have been assisted by locals in finding the mushrooms. Do you ever ask them questions on if they use them or not and what they use them for?