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    readers of the use and applications of fungi in a practice called mycoremeditation. He does this to inform people that mushrooms are beneficial to us humans and our world, and to inspire his readers to try to incorporate mushrooms into their lives. Possessing an easy-going and conversational style, Stamets establishes an optimistic tone to convey to his readers that the use of mushrooms have health-related and planetary rewards. To get his readers to support his movement, in his didactic book, Stamets

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    drug use has been present in both traditions and used recreationally for millennia. Their use can be seen in all corners of the planet by many sects of religions and indigenous peoples. Reasons for usage vary from religious or medical purposes, hunting, war, and spirituality. The drug use was viewed with much less of a negative stigma than it is today. It wasn't until recently that the government cracked down on the use of psychedelic drugs. They placed many of the drugs into schedules in which

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    Mushroom have been widely used as food and food supplements. It is an important food item concerning human health, nutrition and disease prevention. Dietary mushrooms provide a variety of medicinal properties and they are effective against certain life threatening diseases. Mushrooms are not true vegetables in the sense that it does not have any leaves therefore contain no chlorophyll, roots or seeds and really does not need any light to grow. It is a fungus which grows in dark and propagates by

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    Care to Grow Mushrooms? Here 's What You Need to Know By Hara Mae Ople Bado | Submitted On January 04, 2013 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon Share this article on Delicious Share this article on Digg Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Are you the one who wants to join in the bandwagon and cultivate

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    Mushroom Toxins Ronald Smith Professor: Weiand, Brandi CHEF 1305 Culinary Arts Central Texas College Oct 29, 2016 Mushroom toxins is a group of toxins found in certain fungi such as wild mushrooms and toadstools.. Some very common forms of mushrooms and toadstools are Death cap, Inocybe, Cortinarius and

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    Mushrooms are the food bodies of evolved fungi. When a person is intoxicated by the intake of harmful mushrooms, they can suffer from numerous impacts. This digestion of toxic mushrooms is referred as the mushroom poisoning. These toxin mushrooms possess similar looks as those of other edible mushrooms. Therefore, they are confused with the usual mushrooms. Mushrooms are widely grown in many parts of this world; however, among the thousands of mushroom species, only a hundred can cause harmful impacts

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    Psychedelic Mushrooms Psychedelic mushrooms are rumored to have a long and holy background, which dates back to 9000 B.C in North African indigenous cultures. Rock paintings, statues and manuscripts depict what some historians believe to be magic mushrooms. This idea is highly controversial, as other historians claim that none of the evidence found is definitive, and that people are seeing what they want to see. Westerners began to eat magic mushrooms during the 1950s; throughout the 1960s and 1970s

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    In the middle of Nowhere (Nowhere is the neighboring town to Shroom Land,) Lightning struck Nowhere town and sent it into burning hot flames. All but one fled town and he placed a chest on a pedestal in the middle of the flames and he was engulfed in flames, and all thought he was dead. No one dared to head back to the town. On a sunny but cold day, Princess Blobfish marked another day off the golden calendar. She was a kind, sweet girl who knew when not to argue. “Two more days ‘til my B-day.”she

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    Mushrooms were known and consumed as food in ceremonies as far back as prehistoric times. Throughout the history, mushrooms were used in different cultures for their medicinal and tonic properties (Gunde-Cimerman, 1999). The longest tradition of using edible mushrooms for medicinal purposes is in China. Mushrooms represent a major and as yet largely untapped source of powerful new pharmaceutical products. The most significant medicinal effect of mushrooms and their metabolites that attracted the

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    Side Effects of the Drug Psilocybin Essay

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    realms (Schwartz 1988). This travel between realms was often associated with hallucinatory trances guided by their god for the entheogens-the Prince of Flowers. The Aztecs called this ritual "the flowery dream;" this was induced by sacred mushrooms (Erowid). The trend towards experimenting with Psilocybin to determine its effects on the body started in the

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