• django@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      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