We missed you! Have you ever wondered what's actually in those brightly colored "shroom" chocolate bars behind the glass at your local head shop? For several years many of them were marketed as containing Amanita Muscaria, however user reports and independent lab testing tell a decidedly different story. How DID mushroom marketing hucksters confuse consumers, media, and government agencies alike? Press play and find out!

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

FDA.gov, "Investigation of Illnesses: Diamond Shruumz-Brand Chocolate Bars, Cones, & Gummies (June 2024)"

FDA.gov, "Letter to Industry on the Use of Amanita Muscaria or its Constituents in Food"

CDC.gov, "Notes from the Field: Schedule I Substances Identified in Nootropic Gummies Containing Amanita muscaria or Other Mushrooms — Charlottesville, Virginia, 2023–2024"

Hannah Webster for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Massive recall of ‘Diamond Shruumz’ products underscores need for stricter regulation"

Jacob Vaugh, for the Dallas Observer, "Psychedelic Indeed: We Tripped on Legal Magic Mushroom Gummies (This Time)"

Buckminster Campione, on Erowid, "I Know What I Must Do"

Scary_Lingonberry200, Amanita Trip Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/comments/j6s355/comment/k8hws2f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

"Mushroom Gummies" on KTBS 3 News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHdH4mwfE-0

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Could Amanita Muscaria be the secret to finally clearing up your psoriasis? Making your poops more regular? Increasing your agility in the ring? How about in the bedroom ;) The answer may shock you!

We discuss whether this fabled "poison" could have a place in the modern medicine cabinet. And after exploring several studies on the effects of muscimol and ibotenic acid, we examine the results of the largest informal survey of Amanita Muscaria microdosing ever conducted, by none other than the Queen of Amanita Content herself, Russian doctor and psychonaut Baba Masha M.D. And of course, we close things out with a cautionary tale of Amanita Macrodose gone awry!

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

A Fungal Fairy Tale - Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

Baba Masha, "Microdosing with Amanita Muscaria: Creativity, Healing, and Recovery with the Sacred Mushroom" [2022]

R Schwatcz et al., "Ibotenic acid-induced neuronal degeneration: a morphological and neurochemical study"

C.A. Tamminga et al., "Muscimol: Gaba agonist therapy in schizophrenia"

Magdalena Kondeva-Burdina et al., "Effects of Amanita muscaria extract on different in vitro neurotoxicity models at sub-cellular and cellular levels"

Ron Levy et al., "Lidocaine and muscimol microinjections in subthalamic nucleus reverse parkinsonian symptoms"

Ruanxian Dai et al., "Preliminary study on the time-correlation changes in brain neurotransmitters of mice exposed to mushroom toxin ibotenic acid"

CuriousJim on Erowid.org, "The Loop: An Experience with Amanita Muscaria" [2004]

"Easy method for a full decarboxylation of ibotenic acid" by u/RdCrestdBreegull on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/AmanitaMuscaria/comments/pf0e2k/easy_method_for_a_full_decarboxylation_of

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Was the REAL Jesus not a man, but a mushroom shrouded in metaphor to survive Roman persecution? Did amanita muscaria inspire pre-Hindu Vedic priests to craft literally thousands of hymns? When the stakes are this high, can Jamie “pull that up?”

Today we're continuing on our trip down Amanita Lane talking about two dudes and their much disputed mushroom theories! We start off with Robert Gordon Wasson and his Soma Hypothesis, in which he argues amanita muscaria was the true identity of the plant god Soma from the Ninth Mandala of the Rig Veda. Then we go deeper down the rabbit hole with John Marco Allegro, who claims that the beloved Jesus Christ was in fact a cover up for the horny mushroom rituals too wild to be written down. Finally, we cap things off with a classic trip report that really brings everything together in one glorious golden shower.

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

John Marco Allegro interview with Van Kooten & De Bie; recorded for Dutch TV [1976]

John M. Allegro, "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross" [1970]

R. Gordon Wasson, "Soma: divine mushroom of immortality" [1968]

Carl Ruck in Altered States, "Wasson and the Psychedelic Revolution" [2010]

John Brough in Indologica Taurinesia, "Problems of the 'Soma-mushroom' theory" [1973]

LustLover, on Erowid, "The Golden Rain of the Gods" [2003]

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The hosts and guests are not licensed medical professionals. Do not rely on any information discussed in this podcast to make decisions regarding your health or well-being without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.

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