trucking_idiot

Wow, this is enlightening and a bit scary. I have been picking and eating angel’s wings and oyster mushrooms in my local forest since i was a kid. Luckily the latter of the two is more common.

I guess my 30 year old book on mushrooms is a bit out of date!

As a metalhead i find the phenomenon of insanely loud music at concerts very troubling. Even with earplugs, it is sometimes too loud.

Do you actually eat these to get high?

Every older book i have ever read on these toadstools has indicated they are deadly poisonous. I have read online that current research says otherwise. So which is accurate?

The reason i ask is because every october, i pick absolutely stunning large specimens, and have always wanted to try it, but have been afraid to.

You’re right man. But you’re also wrong. What you call an agenda is probably just a product of her life experiences. She doesn’t seem to like johns, legal or not. When you spend every day listening to people who have been abused, manipulated, raped and/or worse, it changes you. When you use the word agenda, it implies that she is trying to deceive you. I just think she doesn’t care much for men who pay women to have sex with them. It is also unlikely that she’s done a proper literature review on what she posted.

So yeah, you’re right, but every single one of your posts is extremely condescending. Just because you’re right doesnt give you the right to be a prick.

Yeah muscimol is the active ingredient / poison that gets you high. It’s said to give you a sense of synasthesia, like for instance hearing light or seeing sound.

The reason i asked my previous question was that there have been many documented (or undocumented maybe) deaths from eating these mushrooms over the years in Eastern Europe. Lots of stories passed down over the years. The thing is there are so many different variations of amanita muscaria that maybe some are more poisonous than others.

Edit: deaths could be from misidentification of other amanitas, although these mushrooms are pretty distinct and easy to identify.

Like our expert here, i wont touch them. Too dangerous in my book!