Mushroom

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…

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…

Hallucinogenic Mushrooms was a class i attended I chose this because I wanted to learn about the psychological impacts that hallucinogens have. I have peers who have experimented, and i have gotten mixed opinions on them so I thought a class would be beneficial and it was. For my career as being a sports agent I might come in contact with a client that abuses this drug so I would like to be prepared on how to handle the situation, as well as have information on the side effects of the drug..…

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…

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…

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap On a nice warm afternoon Mario the master plumber and cart driver was relaxing in his home eating mushroom that he smushed in a thousand pieces and made in a mushroom soup. He was so close to going to sleep that's when he heard a knock at the door. Disturbed, he got up and answered the door. It was his sidekick, Big Red the Coyote, and he was not happy. “ Where have you been? I have been looking looking for you and you haven't been answering my calls!!” said Big Red…

A Case for the Legalization of Psychedelic Mushrooms Ever since the era of Woodstock, studies on psychedelics have been halted and the restrictions are harsher than ever before. Luckily, recent studies have discovered that psilocybin (the chemical found in mushrooms) is not only a great spiritual journey for the human mind, but can also be very beneficial for the body and the inner workings of the brain. For example, new studies have discovered that psilocybin decreases the feelings of anxiety…

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…

“The Poisonous Mushroom” was a children 's book that encouraged Germans to define the Jewish people as poisonous mushrooms by depicting a mother teaching her child the dangers of the Jews. In the story, the mother asks the young boy, “Do you know, too, who these bad men are, these poisonous mushrooms of mankind,” and the boy answers, “They are the Jews” while “[slapping] his chest in pride” (Hiemer). The story concludes with the mother stating, “Just as poisonous mushrooms often lead to the most…

Acceptability of Mushroom Soup In term of texture, the acceptance of particle in soups was determined (Table 4.3). Generally, soup prepared from freeze dried powders had higher scores for acceptability of 4.47 ± 1.10 than oven dried and vacuum dried powder that varies between 3.80± 1.06 and 4.47± 1.43. However, there was no significant difference (p> 0.05) among the soups prepared with fresh mushroom and powders in the respect of texture. The lower texture acceptability of oven dried mushroom…