I'm pretty sure this is bullshit but some dumasses in my school think that eating shrooms gives you food poisoning which is why you hallucinate. I did a google search but it didn't come up with much. Kids in my school also belive that mush makes the brain bleed...but that's a whole notha moist pile of propaganda poop.
wrong, mushrooms effect the dopamine levels in your brain and do something to the seratonin yadayadayada(dont feel like going into it) there is absoulutly no poisons in cubenis mushrooms and the active drug in mush is psylocybin and that is a triptimine.
ive never heard of getting food poisoning from shrooms. it sounds almost impossible. but i dont know, im not expert.
No, and actually psilocybe mushrooms are quite high in protein. The do shit to your liver over time, but no more than alchohol abuse would.
Eating mushies is eating shit.....but it tasted like almonds. I herd some kid say it makes your brain bleed. i beleive him b/c he takes them alot.
Dont belive everything you hear. What if this kid just heard it from a health teacher or some other kid? Just because he shrooms alot doesn't mean he is an expert. Do some research and you'll find it's not true. Educate yourself.
Dude if you brain were to bleed..... you would die from blood lose to the brain..... Mushrooms are a fungus meaning they were not ment to be eaten.... Psyocibin is a natural chemical that the human body was not ment to have thats why you trip.... cus it goes for the seritonin in your brain and does other things that we couldnt understand if we tried...
i have heard all of that stuff...that it makes your brain bleed, that it gives you a high fever which makes you trip, and all sorts off bullshit. In order for a drug to be psychoactive, it effect the chemicals inside of yoour body...it doesnt make you bleed or give you food poisoning to make you trip.
Mushrooms are safer than aspirin kids. True Story. The active chemical in mushrooms resembles a neurotransmitter in its chemical structure. It fits into certain receptors in your brain. Basically a key that fits a lock to the 'doors of perception.' Go to like maps.org or erowid.org and look up the info.
Psilocybin is indeed a poison. I had a old school mushroom book that my dad bought in the 70s and the whole thing was about psilocybin mushrooms and if you pick or grow the wrong ones you can end up getting your stomach pumped..............
Psilocybin is NOT a toxin; in fact there have been no known cases of lethal intoxication due to it's use (AFAIK), and that's saying something considering that they've been used since literally the beginning of time. "Brain bleeding" is an ignorant way of referring to a stroke or hemorage. Psilocybin is not known to cause either of these conditions. @FunkyPhresh: There are indeed poisonous species of mushrooms that look almost identical to psilocybin mushrooms, however, they are NOT psilocybin mushrooms...psilocybin mushrooms are not lethally poisonous, however, may cause slight damage to the liver and kidneys when used continuously over an extended period of time.
that wold be poisoning your liver and kidneys if i am not mistaken, alcohol also has poisons that do the same thing to your liver and kidneys............
Alcohol doesn't "have poisons", alcohol is a solvent (as is GHB, for example) which is literally dissolving the tissue that makes up your organs. To be a poison a compound must cause damage directly to some sort of bodily function or tissue; psilocybin does not do this. Psilocybin mimics a serotonin molecule and binds to the 5-HT receptor causing a misfiring of synapses along neurological pathways, thus distorting sensory perception in a way that is (usually) pleasurable to the user. There are other compounds in psilocybin mushrooms that may cause damage to internal organs, however, this has absolutely no effect on the psychological state of the user other than possibly causing slight discomfort.
Nearly everysubstance is poisonous, it just depends upon the dose, for instance, one hamburger isn't going to kill you, but if you eat them often enough, they will surely prove fatal. You could end up with food poisoning from eating shrooms that have become contaminated with bacteria, (though the same goes for any food) or if you eat the "wrong sort of shroom" i.e one that does contain sufficient serious toxins to do some damage. Don't be too suprised that schoolteachers and schoolbooks may be mis-informng you, they only do so because they believe themselves that using halucinogens is a bad thing for children to do (which I can agree with). The difference is, I think that we should "just say Know", not "just say no" here is an exerpt from a picking guide (Michigan I think)( http://www.msu.edu/user/hallenhe/E-2777.pdf ) Mushrooms: Psilocybe and Stropharia species, Paneolus species, some Conocybe and Inocybe species, Gymnopilus spectabilis. Symptoms: A change of mood usually occurs beginning 20 to 60 minutes following ingestion of the mushroom. The patient may experience fear, excitement, hilarity, hallucinations, loss of coordination, dilation of pupils, rapid heart rate or rapid breathing. Children may develop a high fever and/or seizures. Treatment: Reassurance and time are usually sufficient treatment. Children should be monitored and may require hospitalization in case of fever or seizures. Poisoning is rarely serious in adults, and, because of the disordered state of the mind, moving a hallucinating patient to the hospital may increase his or her sense of fear and confusion. Description: With the exception of Gymnopilus, which is a large, yellowbrown mushroom growing in clusters on wood, psilocybin-containing species are small to moderately large brown mushrooms with dark brown to purpleblack spores. Many of these species bruise bluish or are bluish at the base of the stalk. They can grow in lawns, meadows (particularly highly fertilized ones) or on manure. Little brown mushrooms are not generally sought as food. Those who seek out and eat these deliberately are usually looking for hallucinogenic species. The primary danger is from toxic species that may look similar. Because these can fruit on lawns, they are also responsible for several child poisonings, though we have not heard any reports of this in Michigan. Look-alikes: Gymnopilus is larger than most psilocybin-containing species. It grows in clusters on wood and is common in Michigan. We have seen G. spectabilis mistaken for the honey mushroom, Armillaria mellea. The two can be distinguished by the spore color, which is yellow-brown in Gymnopilus and white in Armillaria. Gymnopilus also resembles the poisonous Omphalotus illudens. The deadly poisonous Galerina species have been mistaken for Psilocybe species. Galerina grows on wood, not on soil or lawns (though there are rare reports of Galerina growing on buried wood in grass). Galerina has a bright brown to orange-brown spore print and may possess a small annulus.
The reason the book you have from back in the day calls psilocybin mushrooms a poison, is the same reason why the government tells you marijuana ruins lives. Poison, yea right... I wouldn't be surprised if there was a cigarette ad on the back of the book lol. It's ludicrous to call psilocybin a poison.. think about it. It's just a chemical that resembles serotonin, so it fits in a certain receptor instead of serotonin. That's exactly like normal operation of neurons, except you put a different chemical in place of the chemical serotonin. I assure you I am no chemical engineer, but look up the chemistry of dmt. It is a natural neurotransmitter that occurs in your brain. Psilocybin is chemically related. I just can't see any proof or logical conclusions even that would make people think it's a poison. Teachers at my school once told a few kids this too... fuck the war on drugs for misinforming so many people.
