Hallucinogenic Mushrooms facts
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The hallucinogen found in "magic mushrooms" triggers brain activity patterns that are similar to those seen when someone is dreaming
how are hallucinogenic mushrooms made?
An archaeologist and biblical scholar suggested that Jesus is a mushroom. "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient 'sex-and-mushroom' cult."
What species of mushrooms are hallucinogenic?
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what are hallucinogenic mushrooms?
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Prehistoric rock art in the Saharan desert indicates that there were ancient hallucinogenic mushroom cults as far back as 9,000 years ago. The mushrooms were used in rituals of a mystico-religious nature, with drawings of Gods draped with the venerated mushrooms appearing repeatedly
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The parasitic Massospora fungus which infects cicadas, replaces their genitals with a fungal stump, and hijacks their brains with amphetamines and/or psilocybin (the key chemical in hallucinogenic mushrooms), forcing them to mate non-stop and spread the fungal spores to infect other cicadas.
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Viking "Berserkers" would take hallucinogenic mushrooms to induce their battle rage
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The hallucinogenic properties of the Fly Agaric toadstool lead to distorted size perception, accounting for Alice's size changes when she eats the mushroom in Lewis Carroll's tale.
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The first documented use of hallucinogenic mushrooms was after a London man picked and served them for breakfast to his family. The result was his son being "attacked with fits of immoderate laughter."
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The NYPD has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on hallucinogenic mushrooms, ecstasy, robots and McGruff costumes for research and crime-fighting
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The shape and colors of the power up and poison mushrooms in Mario are based on a real mushroom, Amanita muscaria, a poisonous mushroom that can cause problems with hallucinogenic size perception
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Santa,and his flying reindeer can be traced to hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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A federally registered church, the Oklevueha Lakota Sioux Nation Native American Church, and its branches, have a legal exemption for its members to smoke marijuana and ingest hallucinogenic mushrooms and peyote cactus.
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Magic" mushrooms are good at treating depression and anxiety. A test showed one dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin helped several cancer patients for months.
