{"id":11102,"date":"2020-11-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11102"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:03:51","slug":"mushies-going-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/24\/mushies-going-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Mushies Going Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/11\/the-hunt-for-the-other-magic-ingredients-in-magic-mushrooms\/?utm_campaign=daily&amp;omhide=true&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=channel-daily-distribution-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Hunt For The Other Magic Ingredients In Magic Mushrooms<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/chris-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1151266757.jpg?quality=80\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1250664\"\/><figcaption><em>Harvesting Mazatec psilocybin mushrooms from their growing tubs May 19, 2019 in Denver, Colorado.\u00a0Joe Amon\/MediaNews Group\/The Denver Post via Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the late 1980s,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psychedelicreview.com\/person\/jochen-gartz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jochum Gartz<\/a>, a chemist at the Institute for Biotechnology in Leipzig, Germany, noticed something intriguing about magic mushrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are more than 200 species of fungus that produce psilocybin, which was then and now thought to be the \u201cactive ingredient\u201d in psychedelic mushrooms. Those different mushrooms, found all over the world and grown in different conditions, were not at all the same. And what they did to the humans who ate them, Gartz observed, was definitely not the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gartz noted 24 cases of \u201caccidental\u201d hallucinogenic mushroom ingestion. In every case, the users all reported intense euphoria\u2014all positive vibes, with no anxiety, dystopia, or unease. No bad trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All 24 of the \u201cgood trippers\u201d had eaten a species of mushroom called Inocybe aeruginascens. That species has relatively high levels of a compound called aeruginascin, one of several chemical compounds identified in psilocybin-producing mushrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/11\/the-hunt-for-the-other-magic-ingredients-in-magic-mushrooms\/?utm_campaign=daily&amp;omhide=true&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=channel-daily-distribution-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer The Hunt For The Other Magic Ingredients In Magic Mushrooms By\u00a0Chris Roberts In the late 1980s,\u00a0Jochum Gartz, a chemist at the Institute for Biotechnology in Leipzig, Germany, noticed something intriguing about magic mushrooms. There are more than 200 species of fungus that produce psilocybin, which was then and now thought to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}