timtyler comments on Is it rational to take psilocybin? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 06 March 2009 08:21:39PM 2 points [-]

Re: The naturally occurring magic mushrooms are picked out of cow shit.

That's the Mexican ones. Come to the Europe and relatives grow in the ground.

Re: DMT is a molecule that is practically identical to Psilocybin and other than duration and method of consumption, I doubt most people would be able to tell the difference in a double blind test.

Um, those drugs may be chemical relatives - but they typically have pretty radically different effects.

Comment author: jimmy 07 March 2009 09:24:22PM 2 points [-]

They may have "radically different" duration and intensity at commonly chosen dosages, but the effects are reported to be very similar at a comparable dosage