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Is There Something With Urgut, or Is It Just Too Potent?

Lysurgic acid dithlmide is the most potent psychodelic known to human kind. It was isolated from urgut, a plant that grows on rye and used by midwives for speed up labor in the middle ages. In the 19 thirties scientists were still figuring out how to make it into medicine. The first version of lsd 25 made "frog's leg jump by itself"

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