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Woman Claims Chocolate Was Like LSD
#20743326 - 10/23/14 02:39 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/10/23/72718.htm
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (CN) - Cacao beans in "healthy chocolate" candy bars gave a woman an "LSD-type trip" in which she hallucinated, planned suicide and was locked up as a threat to herself, she claims in court. Elizabeth Ann Marani-Schwartz sued Reno-based MXI Corp. on Oct. 16 in Santa Cruz County Court. She seeks punitive damages for fraud, gross recklessness, breach of covenant, negligence and breach of contract. MXI uses a multilevel marketing model, in which customers become "distributors," who recruit other customers to become distributors, and so on. Marani-Schwartz says in her lawsuit that she was having some "physical / emotional / mental issues" when an MXI distributor told her she had experience in caring for menopausal women and that MXI had natural cure products that would help her. So, Marani-Schwartz says, she bought MXI's natural cacao bean products. "Upon ingestion of the products plaintiff immediately went into an altered state LSD-type trip, began planning her own suicide and hallucinated that burglars had come into her house to kidnap her son," Marani-Schwartz says. Her family called 911 and she ended up involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward, as a threat to herself of others, according to the complaint. She spent a week hold in the hospital. Marani-Schwartz claims that MXI's "natural cacao bean" products can cause an LSD-type trip "if only two such candy bars are eaten." The privately held MXI, established in 2005, sell products that include weight-loss shakes, shampoos, aphrodisiacs and energy drinks, claiming they can improve digestion, sexual health and general well-being. Their products are sold worldwide. Various kinds of chocolate are listed for sale on the MXI website, checked Thursday morning. On the website's "Regular vs. Healthy Chocolate" section, MXI says: "Traditional processing means that the chocolate is heated, alkalized and combined with artificial and unhealthy ingredients, all of which destroys the cacao's powerful antioxidants and degrades its nutritional content." Chocolate came to Western civilization when Spanish conquistadores found the Aztecs and Maya using it. Chocolate, or chocolatl in Nahuatl, means bitter water. The cacao beans need treatment for the flavor to be pleasing. Chocolate contains a rich brew of antioxidants and other chemicals, including theobromine, phenethylalamine and caffeine. These drugs can affect brain chemistry, including serotonin levels. LSD has been shown to affect serotonin levels, and many modern anti-depressants work, at least in part, by elevating serotonin levels in the brain. Marani-Schwartz says in the lawsuit that she is handicapped, which made her especially vulnerable, but does not elucidate upon what her handicap is. During her hospitalization, Marani-Schwartz says, she was placed on suicide watch. She says her incident was "followed by a long term mental/emotional instability."
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canabis
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Why was LSD even mentioned in this?
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canabis said: Why was LSD even mentioned in this?
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akiraxhoshizora said: Chocolate contains a rich brew of antioxidants and other chemicals, including theobromine, phenethylalamine and caffeine.
More mescaline like then LSD is just more pop-culture... this still seems far fetched for just chocolate, even unprocessed chocolate, although I've never had it, she must have ate far too much or extremely sensitive or something
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Re: Woman Claims Chocolate Was Like LSD [Re: misterogerz] 1
#20744470 - 10/23/14 07:13 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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canabis said: Why was LSD even mentioned in this?
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akiraxhoshizora said: Chocolate contains a rich brew of antioxidants and other chemicals, including theobromine, phenethylalamine and caffeine.
More mescaline like then LSD is just more pop-culture... this still seems far fetched for just chocolate, even unprocessed chocolate, although I've never had it, she must have ate far too much or extremely sensitive or something
Or had a psychotic breakdown and tried to blame it on friggin chocolate
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Re: Woman Claims Chocolate Was Like LSD [Re: Dr.Dankhead] 1
#20744484 - 10/23/14 07:15 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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She might have been on the verge of going crazy and the theobromine pushed her over the edge.
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We told this guy who was in rehab with me and was schitzo if he turned an american spirit cig backwards and smoked it that he would trip. He did it and he was found under his bed with a pot on the stove smoking from where the water had boiled out.
She is just fucking insane.
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I know this whole family. It's really sad, but im not surprised she's suing. Her husband is a lawyer well known for frivolous or at least sketchy lawsuits. I should also note she's always been very strange, this was not as sudden as they are making it sound.
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Chocolate contains a rich brew of antioxidants and other chemicals, including theobromine, phenethylalamine and caffeine.
Such an outstandingly compounded mixed up word, phenylalanine plus phenethylamine.
phenylethylphthlalaninamine
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Chocolate contains a rich brew of antioxidants and other chemicals, including theobromine, phenethylalamine and caffeine.
Chocolate contains almost zero phenethylamine[1] and even if it did contain appreciable amounts of it, you'd need an MAOI in order to make it actually do something.[1][2]
1. Another substance present in chocolate is phenylethylamine, which is also found in low concentrations in the brain. Phenylethylamine releases dopamine and therefore acts in the same way as amphetamines. One might predict that it is this which is ‘addictive’. Studies have demonstrated that 2-3g of phenylethylamine is needed to have anti-depressant properties, but a 50g bar of chocolate contains only a third of a milligram. Moreover, phenylethylamine is broken down readily by monoamine oxidase, so a monoamine oxidase inhibitor would be needed to stop it being broken down in the digestive system.
British Nutrition Foundation conference report. Stimulating thoughts: caffeine and food. BNF Nutrition Bulletin. 23, Winter, 1998, 226-233.
2. Large amounts of phenethylamine administered, all resulting in zero effects:
QUALITATIVE COMMENTS: (with 200, 400, 800 and 1600 mg) “No effects.”
(with 500 mg) “No effects.”
(with 800 and 1600 mg) “No effects.”
(with 25 and 50 mg i.v.) “No effects.”
Source: Alexander Shulgin. PIHKAL: #142 PEA. 1990. http://isomerdesign.com/PiHKAL/read.php?domain=pk&id=142
Information-gathering project of mine on chemicals found in cacao: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/20761251 So far we only have evidence that its caffeine and theobromine are psychoactive. Note that theobromine is very similar in structure to caffeine. I started this project in response to cacao's being increasingly promoted as a psychoactive.
Edited by s240779 (10/27/14 08:16 PM)
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