Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/b14e7c64-4c12-4841-a5ab-1ab0a1c03f69.jpeg
Leaves on the trees are turning,
Yellow, brown and red.
Smoke from the bonfires burning,
Curling overhead.
Here comes Winter,
Bringing the mists and rain.
Summer has gone for another year,
Autumn is here again.
Although, in actual fact, it is summer or winter right now, wherever you are in the world, not autumn.
Mulberry wine is rather good. I make it every year. Not from the unripe hallucinogenic fruits. I might next year.
As a general rule of thumb, most of the times you find something that grows in nature that causes hallucinations, but it isn’t something you’ve heard that people take to hallucinate, it’s because taking enough of it to trip will make you a lot sicker than it’s worth or is generally regarded as a terrible “trip” or can fuck with your brain in the long term. For example; nutmeg is also a hallucinogen. Commonly causing palpations of the heart and an impending feeling of doom with delusions of grandeur and possible mental breakdowns. A tablespoon of nutmeg might just ruin your week, so to speak. But it tastes nice as a spice so it’s in most houses and grocery stores because pretty much no one ever wants to use it as a fun time drug.
I love this. Is the blue bird hallucinating what the grey one is saying, or are they both hallucinations from the viewer looking at the birds?
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Unripe mulberries are halucinogenous? https://www.erowid.org/herbs/mulberry/mulberry_info2.shtml
tl;dr - "White Mulberry - All parts of white mulberry, except for the ripe fruit, contain a milky sap (latex) that is toxic to humans. Although humans may consume ripe mulberry fruit, ingestion of unripe fruit can result in stomach upset, stimulation of the nervous system and hallucinations."
Umm, not so fond of psychedelic states as to consume latex sap. I'll pass, thanks.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Some things are better left to the Wookie Shamans.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
@wookieshaman , comment if you please.
anzo@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
In case anyone wants to try this or any other “natural” drug. The most important fact is to check how far apart is the dose (a.k.a. LD50) that has the desires effect from the dose that’s going to kill you. Most of the recreative drugs have a nice gap in between.
Back from where I come from some teens would prepare an hallcinogenic tea with flowers from Datura plants. Some deaths were reported from time to time…
Of course, this is not considering other risks (health issues aside from death itself, or psychological dependance.)
So… Keep it simple. It’s better to trust your dealer’s products. Omg, wtf is my advise right now…?? Well, I guess “better” is the keyword here.
Lojcs@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
What does it mean by fruit? The entries thing or just the fleshy parts excluding the core?
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Hmm, yeah, what does it mean? Also, don't give yourself a tummy ache with green mulberries, based on some possibly spurious quotation from some ancient website entry. Ripe mulberries are so much better than that.