LSD and ketamine are fascinating because the others? OF COURSE mushrooms give this crazy fucking experience. we exist, we’re of the earth, wow the cosmos blah blah blah. you drink some root bark and visit the soul factory big fucking deal magic. but what explains the synthetics??
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yeah i get fucked up about this sometimes. where the fuck did LSD come from??? total miracle
I think it's a synthesized version of the active component of ergot
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Ergot is a fungal disease of rye. Fungus is our long lost kin trying to get us to remember where it all began.
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Don’t know that I necessarily buy the OPs point-there is a level at which everything is molecules interacting according to laws of physics-but there is some real mystery to LSD’s discovery: Hoffman’s “peculiar feeling” 5 years later leading him to resynthesize it
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& the apparent unlikelihood of absorbing an active dose through the skin. Heard an interview with Dave Nichols, one of the all-time greats of psychedelic chemistry-talking about how this story was fishy:
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