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39 - Gabor Mate

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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Amanita Muscaria - The Famous Hallucinogenic Muscle

Amanita Muscaria grows in Acidic soil, which tends to be the soil around pine trees Christmas trees And is eaten by reindeer. It has been used for millennia By the lap people, the Asami people In the north of Europe In shamanic practices. Unlike psilocybin mushrooms and some other hallucinogens it's extremely toxic If you eat it but you can eat it But one of the things they did to get around that Was that they would watch reindeer eating them Or wait for the reindeer to piss and drink the piss Because Amanita, the psychoactive How do you catch the piss over reindeer? Good question Sounds like a cone

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