In response to the 'takes 20 minutes' thing...I see your point, but humans are known to treat things different than any other animal...
Have you ever given a cat acid? (A friend dosed liquid to the cat thinking it would be funny, I told him not to). The cat was fucked for life(insane)
They go crazy and are insane forever. Trust me on that one. They don't react the same as humans do to chemicals.
Same goes for other chemicals...we react different as humans than most wild animals would from eating the organism.
We could go the religious route like many tribes do and call them food from 'god' that was specifically put here for us, but I don't believe that theory either.
Its like the big bang, right? there is no definitive proof, but most of the science community accepts it(im not quite convinced).
If you talk to any botanist or mycologist(PhD) which I do regularly(I am a Botany grad student, location: undisclosed), they accept it as a fact(although definitive evidence does not exist).
You realize that is why most people get gastrointestinal distress when they eat shrooms in raw dry from, right? Its a classic sign of fungal secondary chemicals.
Look into alkoloids of most of the fungi that are 'toxic'(definition is: substance that causes adverse effects)
Just like some people have panic attacks? And go ape shit, cus they can't handle it?
One of my friends(female) took some for the first time(Without me present) and she said she had the worst trip ever...She never will touch them again, which pisses me off by the way...I try to get her to do it again in the right setting, but she won't...
Isn't that a natural deterrent? Hell, I don't know.
I say, who cares, lets make some shroom tea and listen to some electronic music and watch 3d posters and some funny ass cartoons.
Edited by Unknowner, 10 November 2012 - 10:00 AM.