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One for the OP- Name that Mushroom 🙂
Found 100's of the little beggars just off the track at a well known trail centre in the North East...
No, we didn't eat any.
Fly Agaric eviljoe, deffo don't want to eat one of those! 🙂
Every ride for me is fuelled by Codeine, Ibuprofen and Paracetamol. My hips are now knackered, so I couldn't get far without them, or would spend hours paying for it afterwards. Interesting the number of fans of tramadol... it just made me itch like crazy and vomit if I rode after taking it. It has great entertainment value however. My MIL has to take it, and last time she was here she woke up halfway through Men In Black and had a conversation with Will Smith about growing a moustache. She thought she was talking to my lad.
Joe - aminita muscaria aka fly agaric.. I've ingested small amounts in the past and found it to be quite unpleasant..
I wasn't physically ill but the hallucinatory effect was an insidious descent into fear and loathing, quite subtle and sinister.. Others I've known to do the same have invariably suffered long-term mental illness 😯
I would suggest that that fungus in particular is a strong candidate for the etymology of the phrase 'away with the faeries'
Read up on the ancient Soma brew, Yunki. There were suggestions that a small amount of cannabis was necessary to avoid 'the fear'. Also the conversion from ibotenic acid to muscimol has to be done just right to, again, avoid the fear.
I used to like necking a few (500 odd) of the milder psilocybin mushies but knocked it on the head after a friend had a seriously bad time at 2am at the bottom of a long climb in the middle of a largish woodland area.
I almost left him there... 😉
Aye.. I'm still a big fan of the liberty cap.. I got a bit of a shock in the summer though after necking a couple of dozen dried shrooms for a giggle at a little local festy.. I think I was expecting a little buzz but I got a proper kick in the goolies off them!
There's been some good scientific research into the positive effects of psilocybin as a cure for nicotine addiction recently.. May have to give it a bash seeing as it's mushy season and all that
all my rides I take salbutamol.
Don't eat fly agaric, they have a cumulative toxicity and you will die if you exceed it.
Yes plenty of performance enhancing drugs. The ride has greatly been improved by magic mushrooms acid ecstasy etc but dope is perfect at the top of the hill while you wait for your mates - toot toot
Not sure I could do it now mind...