Amanitas are not “magic mushrooms” in that they do not contain psilocybin, and are fully legal, just heavily stigmatized. I’ve tried them and found them to be the single greatest substance I’ve taken for anxiety, but I’ve stopped taking them because I have doubts about their safety. Chubby Emu on youtube has an episode about a guy who died after taking them, for example.
So if you are inclined to try them, do your research first. Extensively. And keep in mind that even the science on these fungi is still far from complete.
I’ve found them in the wild but wouldn’t dare eat them. I hear you’re supposed to peal the skin off the top and smoke it, but I’m not doing that either.
As far as getting them in the wild, you just have to be sure to forage where the air and soil is free from pollutants (as far as that is feasible anyway), then clean and dehydrate them.
As far as safety goes, the conventional wisdom is that you want to decarboxylate them. If I recall, there are two main active ingredients in amanitas: muscimol, and ibotenic acid. It’s believed that one of these is safe, and the other not so much. But the whole thing really isn’t very clear, and we certainly don’t have any reliable long term data on habitual use. Anyway, the process just involves simmering them in a solution of water and citric acid, which converts the unsafe substance into the safe one.
Who was putting Aminitas in food? Was it some loophole thing to sell magic mushrooms legally?
Amanitas are not “magic mushrooms” in that they do not contain psilocybin, and are fully legal, just heavily stigmatized. I’ve tried them and found them to be the single greatest substance I’ve taken for anxiety, but I’ve stopped taking them because I have doubts about their safety. Chubby Emu on youtube has an episode about a guy who died after taking them, for example.
So if you are inclined to try them, do your research first. Extensively. And keep in mind that even the science on these fungi is still far from complete.
I’ve found them in the wild but wouldn’t dare eat them. I hear you’re supposed to peal the skin off the top and smoke it, but I’m not doing that either.
As far as getting them in the wild, you just have to be sure to forage where the air and soil is free from pollutants (as far as that is feasible anyway), then clean and dehydrate them.
As far as safety goes, the conventional wisdom is that you want to decarboxylate them. If I recall, there are two main active ingredients in amanitas: muscimol, and ibotenic acid. It’s believed that one of these is safe, and the other not so much. But the whole thing really isn’t very clear, and we certainly don’t have any reliable long term data on habitual use. Anyway, the process just involves simmering them in a solution of water and citric acid, which converts the unsafe substance into the safe one.
And of course dose is a large part of safety.
Wait where can I get these hallucinatory foodstuffs. Amanitas food? Really? That sounds pretty bullshit.
Probably make you shit through the eye of a needle.