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But humans have been getting exercise for millions of years. It’s hardly comparable to taking a lab-created compound.
by mikepurvis 4y ago
But humans have been getting exercise for millions of years. It’s hardly comparable to taking a lab-created compound.
- jimmar 4y agoIf by "lab" you mean the planet through millions of years of evolution, then yes, psilocybin is a lab-created compound.
- ei8htyfi5e 4y agoIt’s not lab created. It’s entirely natural.
- scotty79 4y agoIt's a random organism. While in itself it's natural, nothing about ingesting it by humans is natural.
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- asdff 4y agoEverything we consume is some random organism.
- scotty79 4y agoMy point exactly. Nothing is natural for humans except for perhaps some tree fruits from Africa. So saying "it's natural" is bs.
- asdff 4y agoYou have canine teeth for eating meat instead of tree fruits. Your body can also extract nutrients from this fungus versus merely passing it like if you ate some wood or something else entirely non-nutritious. You might be one of those people who are able to process lactose effectively. None of these things are unnatural to our species if we have natural mutations in our population that confer these adaptions.
- scotty79 4y ago> You have canine teeth for eating meat instead of tree fruits. Probably not cows and pigs though. Maybe sobe birds. Maybe monkeys. Raw. Also no significant natural resistance to salmonella. I'm sure I have exactly as much genetic adaptations to eating psylocybin mushrooms as I have for eating death caps.
- pengaru 4y agoHuman consumption of a naturally occurring mushroom (food) that happens to contain psilocybin is absolutely a natural occurrence and as a result has a history of human consumption older than wine.
- scotty79 4y ago> Human consumption of a naturally occurring mushroom (food) that happens to contain psilocybin is absolutely a natural occurrence Same could be said about death cap mushrooms. Something being natural or even being occasionally ingested doesn't make it any better. Natural, occasionally ingested organisms can kill you on the spot.
- tylersmith 4y agoPsilocybin is a natural compound that has been used since recorded history.
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- overstep_sj 4y agoPsilocybin is not lab-created. It's the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.
- prophesi 4y agoPretty much anything you do alters your brain. The five senses, what's put in your body, how you move your body, the thoughts you have. Though doing a larger dose of psychedelics definitely does a lot more rewiring at once and should be done with extreme caution and making sure schizophrenia/psychosis doesn't run in the family.
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- thatcat 4y agoHumans have been consuming psilocybin for 10k+ years
- asdff 4y agoBoy I have news for you about how long hominids have potentially been ingesting this particular compound
- colechristensen 4y agoHumans as we are are only about 300 thousand years old, we haven’t been doing anything for millions of years. Animals though have been seeking out mind altering substances for all we can determine, for as long as there were mind altering substances. The oldest human religions used and still use mild altering substances, it is Christianity which is weird for shunning them (and most of where the abstinence drive comes from) and it was mostly xenophobia targeted against non Christians. Psilocybin is often just taken by eating mushrooms, when it isn’t, a little isolation and purification doesn’t make much difference.