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[kaiser_tbd]

So I fell asleep with a Snu in my mouth.

Nicotine gives you WEIRD dreams.

Bizzare capture the flag, then some sex for flavor, then a bit of street racing, and a spiritual vision to finish it off.

What the fuck, nature?

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[shadsdf]

I think you hit pretty much every main category in one go O_o

[kaiser_tbd]

Srsly, what the fux? It utterly boggles me that shit like nicotine (or peyote, or datura) is natural, and in some cases, specially packaged to freak humans right the fuck out.

Datura is my favorite example of this. It's a relative of Morning Glory, and eating 15 seeds will send you into the most immersive hallucinations possible for two solid days. The 'drug' in the seeds is actually a perfect balance of three vicious poisons, but in such low quantities that they're not harmful. The amounts are precise, incredibly so. Without the perfect balance, all those poisons will do is make you feel ill.

So, establishing that a plant can make poisons in it's seeds, what is the possible evolutionary basis for making you trip the fuck out instead of just making you a bit sick for a while? Lots of plants make you ill to eat. Why does this one package your own personal Fear and Loathing instead?

[shadsdf]

I have no clue. I'm a biologist because this shit interests me yet completely baffles me how it's possible. I mean, this fall I'm going to be running around in the woods collecting mushrooms, which terrify me. People make a game of trying to ID and eat mushrooms in the woods, and from my own minor research on them?

Do not eat little/medium/large dark brown mushrooms, as they may poison you in a day or two.
Do not eat little light brown mushrooms, as they may poison you or make you hallucinate but you won't know which until it's too late.
Do not eat white mushrooms, as they may kill you next week. Especially so if the mushroom is oddly phallic.

And people try to eat these for fun!

[kaiser_tbd]

Stupid. but on the note of mushrooms, again, take Fly Agaric. Utterly toxic, unless you dry -just- so, in which case the effects trigger the legendary viking 'berserker' state.

Seriously. They got hopped up on shrooms before they raped/pillaged. Vikings rule.

[dark_stardragon]

o.O