[ei8htyfi5e]

It’s not lab created. It’s entirely natural.

[scotty79]

It's a random organism. While in itself it's natural, nothing about ingesting it by humans is natural.

[pengaru]

Human 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]

> 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.

[pengaru]

Except psilocybin-containing mushrooms are edible, death caps are not.

[scotty79]

Edible just means it doesn't kill you immediately at doses you can fit in your stomach.

[asdff]

Everything we consume is some random organism.

[scotty79]

My point exactly. Nothing is natural for humans except for perhaps some tree fruits from Africa.

So saying "it's natural" is bs.

[asdff]

You 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]

> 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.