As far as I'm aware, we still don't know why they produce psilocybin. Something that takes 30+ minutes to begin affecting you seems like a poor defense mechanism.
We know with certainty that capsaicin does act as a deterrent against consumption, and capsaicin acts immediately...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And doesn't deter me in the least. Pass the hot sauce, please!
Most of the ones with toxins strong enough to kill you won't do so for months after you consumed it a single time. They know something about playing the long game.
i wonder how a chemical that can distort perception of time and space could be a useful defense mechanism...... harder to find the mushroom when you cant remember where you ate it.
It's just a guess, but it's probably protection against other species than mammals (psilocybin I mean)...
Regarding capsaicin, it's protecting against (almost) everything that is isn't a bird, birds don't feel the capsaicin AFAIK.
They produce psilocybin because Satan told them to
Also humans, including myself: willingly eats food containing high amounts of capsaicin, something chillies evolved to produce to prevent animals from eating them
We are a weird species.
The human regularly exposes itself to solar radiation and consumes flavoured liquid toxin for recreational purposes, and yet it does not die, instead it develops a tolerance to these hazards. Science team is reminded to take extreme caution when studying this lifeform.
Spice preserves, kills dangerous organisms in food. That's why, the higher the average temperature, the spicier the food. Well, except maybe europe, it's more olive oil and vinegar in the southern parts here.
At first, you had my attention, but now you have my interest.
And now you have...oh my fucking god you have my hands give them back!! Oh wait I forgot to cover the mirror.
Fucking mirrors are the worst.
Okay, noted... Read Dorian Gray on mushrooms...
It's a funny way to put animals off - they might have the most sublime, healing and fascinating time or a completely terrifying one but the fact remains that because it takes the best part of an hour to kick in they will probably still have no idea what caused it.
Tell that to the reindeer known for enjoying Amanita Muscaria mushrooms.
I would kill for an LSD source.
Shrooms make me feel so much more self-conscious when I'm tripping for some reason. LSD is much more enjoyable to me, but much harder to source as you can't just grow it yourself from an internet kit.
And there's such a thing as bad LSD, which really sucks. Those quasi-legal, almost LSD analogues often sold as genuine LSD, but with glitchy side-effects.
Legalized drugs can be regulated and quality-controlled, and should be. Fuck Reagan for many, many reasons, including his "war on drugs."
If you go to a music festival, it'll probably come to you . I wish lsd didn't last so damn long, I got stuff to do.
2C-B? (not that it's as grandiose as an acid trip though...)
It's so sketchy these days with "designer drugs". You never know what you're actually getting.
That's like Capsaicin, which was supposed to deter mammals so birds could eat the fruit and "drop" the seeds in a distant place.
And now we are cultivating peppers. So the strategy still worked evolutionarily speaking, only not like the peppers intended.
only not like the peppers intended.
I know what you're saying but also that's not how evolution works. More of a case of "the reason why an adaptation proves advantageous may change completely over time."
And now I'm dropping them in the chipotle bathroom
Whatever is in the background looks like they have a nice arse
It’s a homoerotic Greek statue of two men wrestling. Leonardo DiCaprio’s character traded in slaves who were made to fight hand to hand to the death, and a lot of the art in the house reflected that.
