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December 15, 2006

Strange But True!

Q. Who are “shroomers,” and how did the experience of Mr. W. begin the shroomer tale?

A. After mushrooming, Mr. W. and his niece lunched on their pickings and started feeling mighty strange, says “New Scientist” magazine. “We became very hilarious, with the irresistible impulse to laugh and joke immoderately,” he recounted. Then they experienced vivid hallucinations. Previously mushrooms had been categorized as either edible or poisonous, but now “hallucinatory” was added, including maybe 200 out of thousands of species.


 
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