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    At the point when southern style turkeys came into the standard a couple of years back my thinking was the reason would somebody upset flawlessness. Filling your home with floating fragrances of broiling turkey and sneaking crests at the cooking turkey is an enormous piece of Thanksgiving convention. This is the point at which the inescapable happened I attempted a southern style turkey. I was in any event extremely amazed. The meat was wet and delicate. The turkey was not the slightest bit…

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    Throughout history the US media has unfairly portrayed psychedelic drugs, the counterculture, and philosophies behind them. Psychedelic drugs have been not only misportrayed and lied about, but the work of many successful scientists has been ignored because of the bad stigma behind psychedelic drugs. We will explore how psychedelic drugs can benefit society and help many people. Only until the psychedelic renaissance, present day, has some of the media started seeing psychedelic culture for what…

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    commonly available natural psychedelic currently is the species Psilocybe cubensis (other names could be Stropharia cubensis, Stropharia cyanescens or Stropharia caerulescens) due to being relatively easy to grow; also given the street name “magic mushrooms” due to its known hallucinations it gives off onto its victim. Psilocybe cubensis are commonly found in the subtropical humid forests of New Guinea and mainly Mexico, having the highest number of neurotropic fungi at 76 species, of which 44…

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    Origin of LSD and Psilocybin: Home Sweet Home Both these psychological drugs do not come in handy packages, all gift-wrapped and perfectly ready for the user to high on. Whether it is psilocybin being nicknamed “magic mushroom” or LSD in its natural pure state, it is not the organism itself, but a component that is found inside it and constantly produced as a “weapon” to fend off any predators, mainly herbivores and omnivores (obviously), those that do try to eat it. For psilocybin, they can…

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    given the street name “magic mushrooms” due to its known hallucinations it gives off onto its victim. Psilocybe cubensis are commonly found in the subtropical humid forests of New Guinea and mainly Mexico, having the highest number of neurotropic fungi at 76 species, of which 44 of them belonging to the genus Psilocybe (39% of the world), originating and growing there; the likelihood in confronting these fungi gives Psilocybe cubensis another nickname “Mexico Mushroom” (Azarius n.d.). There is…

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    universal truth, and to his surprise he was incorrect. Trying to express his ideas from textbooks, Diamond “patiently explained to [his] companions that [he] had read about some mushrooms being poisonous” and that he has heard of “even American mushroom collectors dying because of difficulty of distinguishing safe from dangerous mushrooms” (Diamond 17). Diamonds perception is limited. In context, he accepts his education as true while not trusting “how his fellows order their knowledge”. The…

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    Psilocybin Research Paper

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    psilocybin containing mushrooms, such as the psilocybe cubensis and psilocybe semilanceata fungi. This compound has been consumed for thousands of years and has had a major impact on numerous societies. The history of psilocybin use dates back to at most 11,000 years ago by North African indigenous cultures. There has also been evidence of mushroom use within Mayan and Aztec ruins. Modern western mushroom use began in the late 1950’s after R. Gordon wasson participated in a mushroom ritual…

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    sense, the other a skeptic, examining a possibly poisonous mushroom. A skeptic named Lucy and a common sense believer named Chloe were walking through the woods when Lucy found a wild mushroom. Lucy picked the mushroom and tried to eat it with very little consideration. Upon seeing this Chloe knocked the mushroom out of Lucy’s hand and shouted, “You can’t eat that Lucy it’s poisonous!” Lucy replied, “But how do you know that the mushroom is poisonous?” “Look, see how the top is rounded and…

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    Psilocybe mushrooms, the consumption of which produce psychotropic effects brought on by tryptamines like psilocybin, were the first hallucinogenic consumed by Timothy Leary and his friends at Harvard, and later became the subject of many psychological trials by him…

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    medication you are using to enhance testosterone. Elevated estrogen levels not only decreases testosterone levels in men, but it is harmful to men and women both. It increases the chances of heart disease and several types of cancer. The Journal of Medicinal Food has revealed that those food items, which have phytochemicals in them, can reduce estrogen levels significantly. These food items are also known as estrogen blocking foods. Get more information from…

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