From the Frontiers paper: "The patient received 5 g of orally administered psilocybin-containing mushrooms (Enigma strain". i.e., a standard dose of 5g of mushroom.
I’m assuming you’ve never taken mushrooms before (on average there is probably ~10mg psilocybin per dried gram, so 5g is 50mg which is on the high end of dosing, definitely not ‘standard’)
We don't know they were dried. We do know the strain is a particularly potent one that grows in a fashion that might not lend itself to normal water concentrations.
Really though, weren't you the one conflating mushroom dosages with those of pure psylocibin a moment ago? I find it difficult to believe someone with more than incidental experience would make that mistake.
> Really though, weren't you the one conflating mushroom dosages with those of pure psylocibin a moment ago?
I think you’ve misunderstood. I was quoting the paper, which states 5 grams. 5 grams is a lot of mushrooms, especially for someone who is not compos mentis. 5g implies probably ~50mg of psilocybin, I haven’t been conflating them at all (you measure the amount of mushrooms because obviously you can’t see how much psilocybin is in each one).
If the paper stated an exact dose of psilocybin this would be a totally different discussion
Edit: I just realised the quote in my first comment incorrectly states 5g psilocybin- I didn’t ever understand the paper as meaning that, I just wrote that incorrectly. All of my subsequent comments were talking about this as 5g mushrooms - which is still a heavy dose!
Worked in Wang UK VS OS tech support in the early '90s.
Best memories:
- Figuring out how to get square root in COBOL (no built-in fn).
- Writing Conway's game of life in Wang assembler (more or less IBM 270/370 assembler).
Worst memories:
Quality Learning Process (QLP) - a completely ineffectual attempt to turn the company around by writing "working together for quality" on mugs, pencils etc. (at least that's how I remember it).
Same for me. 40-year "functional" alcohol dependency. Pattern of mostly avoiding drink during the week, desperate for Friday to come around, followed by poor sleep, tiredness, weight gain, regret.
A mushroom trip in Vancouver helped me understand the underlying cause of dependency, what I was running away from. That seemed to be all it took. The need was simply gone and the habit broken. Weekends are more like the energizing productive breaks they always should have been.
