[hinkley]

Mushrooms are just the fruiting body. Fungal cells don't differentiate, so odds are good that if the mushroom gets you high, eating the dirt under the mushroom - where most of the fungus is - will also do the same thing.

If you were somehow infected by one of these mushrooms, you'd be tripping all the time, not unlike the people who have beer yeast in their GI tract are slightly inebriated every time they eat simple sugars.

[tastyfreeze]

Injecting spores into your blood stream can infect your body with mushrooms. DO NOT DO THIS, it can be fatal.

https://www.insider.com/man-injected-with-mushrooms-grew-in-...

[hinkley]

Wait. If he boiled the mushrooms, how did get spores? Does that mean Agaricales spores can survive 100ºC? Yikes.

[matheusmoreira]

Looks like he had bipolar disorder. Manic episodes can produce imprudent behavior such as this.

[neom]

That makes so much sense now. Thank you kindly for clarifying.