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

Fun fact: ibotenic acid is a muscimol prodrug and rather toxic for humans. You can filter the mushrooms through reindeer and drink their piss to get more muscimol than ibotenic acid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I remember reading ages ago that reindeer do that the other way around too - they learned to drink human piss when the farmers ate the mushrooms because it would get them high. So now reindeer are attracted to Siberian herder piss.

I have no clue if that anecdote has held up, the book I read it in was on some real hippie shit

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

Well, FWIW, I drank my own pee. It tasted like mushroom tea.... Then the next time, it tasted like piss. Very much night and day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I respect and am grateful for your service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Or human piss, or you know...decarb it in the oven.