4w ago

YSK that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, is 50% less toxic than caffeine.

caffeine only needs 190 mg per kilogram of body weight to have a 50/50 chance of killing you, whereas you would need 280 mg per kilogram of body weight of psilocybin.

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I want to do the 25 gram trip then.
- go for it.
  Physiologically safe, FDA recommended, non-habit-forming.
  
  @Agent641@lemmy.world
  I would recommend against it. While 25g of MUSHROOMS doesn't contain enough psilocybin to be anything close to lethal, it does contain enough to potentially be an extremely bad time. As someone who got stoned watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off and accidentally continued snacking on the almost 28g of mushrooms left in the bag....hard pass. Never again.
Makes for a very different morning tho...
- Heck yeah it does.
The LD50 isn’t the concern rather it is the psychological harm that can come about from bad trips.
- toxicity is a concern.
  psychological risks concerning mushrooms are extremely low.
  much lower than the movies or rumors online might make you think.
  https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/psilocybin-magic-mushrooms#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+risk+of+mental+health%2Cuse+outside+of+clinical+settings.
Pointless fact.
- It isn't pointless if you wanted to poison someone with psilocybin and had a misconception about the LD50. It'd be a really useful, helpful fact, actually. So, uhh. Thanks OP. I almost made a terrible mistake.
  
  I wish my enemies were as cool as you. We probably wouldn't be enemies though so whats the arc even at that point.
- I appreciate your pointless comment.
Will it help keep me awake if I take twice as much as usual, then?
I should buy some shroom chocolate
- chocolate was actually my first introduction to shrooms.
  it was pretty great. I laughed for a very long time with a friend, and was like "yea. this is good."
  and I didn't even know how safe it was then, haha.

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