Do Mushrooms Benefit from Being Hallucinogenic?
Do Mushrooms Benefit from Being Hallucinogenic? with tags minuteearth, minute earth, minutephysics, minute physics, earth, history, science, environment, environmental science, earth science, mushrooms, fungi, psychedelics, hallucination
Nobody knows why some mushrooms are psychedelic. I mean, we know that they contain a compound called psilocybin, which messes with the brain chemistry of lots of animals, including humans. But we don’t know why being psychedelic would be useful to mushrooms in the first place. Here are three of our best theories.
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- Psilocybin: a hallucinogenic alkaloid, found in some toadstools.
- Psychedelic: relating to or denoting drugs (especially LSD) that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness.
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Pollan, Michael. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics. London, Penguin Books, 15 May 2018.
