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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No, no. It's hemlock.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenanthe_crocata

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/plant-that-produced-ritual-death-smiles-mayve-given-homer-a-neat-phrase

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. My mistake, did not read the entire wikipedia article there for sardonic grin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's all good. :) I try to hold back links sometimes to encourage people to go look up stuff, both because the curious will and they come back and contribute some new things. It's good for conversation. Mistakes are the best way to learn. People are neat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh my, the mechanism of action on that is essentially the opposite of alchohol/benzos and would feel like going through the DTs. That's a very unfun way to go. Interestingly, a suggestive treatment would be benzos/getting blind drunk.