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Caffeine is an insecticide plants invented to not get eaten by bugs.
Now manthings farm those plants.
I’ve spoken to the mushrooms about this several times, they get us all in the end anyway so they think it’s funny.
To be fair, it’s not something most people want to consume regularly. I’ve done shrooms multiple times and even with the best experiences I’ve felt like one a year might be too often.
I was in a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins to treat PTSD with psilocybin about 8 or 9 years ago and I was basically cured of it. When I first went in, I was textbook with several symptoms. After the trial, no symptoms whatsoever. I had taken psilo several dozen times before that, but I had never actually thought about the therapeutic potential. After the trial, I had a completely different level of respect for them. I take them 4x per year now to maintain my positive mental health, no more, no less.
Psychedelic assisted therapy is incredible. Challenging. My therapist can only prescribe weed and ketamine so we use those. People think I’m in there having fun and getting doped up, and I mean, yes occasionally I do get fun sessions, but generally we have done a lot of heavy lifting, an interactive exchange designed to pin me into my body, where I have trouble wanting to go.
I’ve heard one or two sessions with pure MDMA can resolve quite a lot of c-ptsd symptoms for good, but alas I am clean from street drugs and can’t go chasing it, and darknet seems too risky these days. So I guess I wait for the law to change.
That’s incredible! I’d love to be able to take advantage of that (gosh, alcohol is such a shitty drug!).
I’ve got nothing like PTSD however, so maybe I should keep counting my blessings
“The only way to communicate with this species is by consuming it. Curious.”
It’s also a very good method of communicating with God and aliens.
I love chilli’s for this. They’ve developed spiciness to discourage getting eaten. We made an entire fucking menu out of it.
See also caffeine.
and nicotine and cocaine
Plant?
Yeah I didn’t realize that they were not technically plants until after I made the post. Ooopsie. I mean, I knew that they were fungi, but I thought fungi were considered plants. But I know now that I was mistaken.
To be fair, I think it fits the format quite well - would the high guy know mushrooms aren’t plants? We don’t know!
He’s high as fuck, of course he’d call it an umbrella plant!
I don’t understand how psilocybin evolved multiple times. I don’t see it as a defense because animals aren’t likely to conflate tripping balls with something they ate an hour previous.
It looks like the evolutionary advantage is still debated. There’s a newer hyopethsis that, because psilocybin evolved during a period of heightened gastropod diversity, it could be defence against snails.
In confused as to how it’s not considered a spore distribution strategy because mammals like tripping balls and spores can survive digestion… 🤷
I believe Psilocybin cubensis evolved with this in mind, where the spores get on grass, then they do their funky thing in the cow guts. Cow poops them out and the mushrooms come out of the cow pies.
This could be the case with most/all dung loving mushrooms, IDK I’m just an amateur grower.
The spores in the cap are also active but with cubensis in low wind they tend to drop on neighboring caps. So being eaten directly and spread should have a higher load transited.
I’m no scientist either so take my thoughts with a cow pie.
Look at hot peppers. Task failed successfully.
Is it possible they evolved to taste delicious, but give explosive diarrhea sending the seeds everywhere?
I think that was just task failed
I mean, given that humans now cultivate them en masse they are succeeding given that the task is to reproduce.
huh, didn’t think of that. Thanks for a new perspective!
A generally good evolutionary strategy is to be useful to humans.
Maybe, but they’re also fucked if we disappear. Corn as we know it is so far removed from the native plant that it can’t spread itself around without us.
Plants, um, find a way. Plants will edit their own DNA in response to stress. They will have offspring with themselves or very distantly related plants. If you can get humans to plant you on six continents, in abominable number, then if humans disappear you find a way.
I’ve come to find that if your chemicals do things we want them.
'tis the season
