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by dwroberts 4 days ago
> Really though, weren't you the one conflating mushroom dosages with those of pure psylocibin a moment ago?

I think you’ve misunderstood. I was quoting the paper, which states 5 grams. 5 grams is a lot of mushrooms, especially for someone who is not compos mentis. 5g implies probably ~50mg of psilocybin, I haven’t been conflating them at all (you measure the amount of mushrooms because obviously you can’t see how much psilocybin is in each one).

If the paper stated an exact dose of psilocybin this would be a totally different discussion

Edit: I just realised the quote in my first comment incorrectly states 5g psilocybin- I didn’t ever understand the paper as meaning that, I just wrote that incorrectly. All of my subsequent comments were talking about this as 5g mushrooms - which is still a heavy dose!

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No worry, cool. Easy to do, sorry to press. It just seemed weirdly aggressive calling the other guy out after that and I felt the need to address it.