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Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin?
    #14115262 - 03/13/11 05:31 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Feel free to move this is it doesn't go here I was unsure,

but I was wondering: why do cubes and various other mushroom species produce psilocybin and psilocin, is there any explanation or is it just cause?


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: Silhouette]
    #14115365 - 03/13/11 05:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Nobody really knows. Why does your body produce bilirubin?


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: Doc_T]
    #14115450 - 03/13/11 06:00 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

xBen, on your sig, if a chemical is blacked out does that mean you have done it or that you haven't done it?

And as an answer to your question, psilocybin/psilocin are produced to provide an interstellar interface for communication between extraterrestrial beings and anything with the appropriate nervous system. Well, that's one theory anyway.

There's no real reason why anything has evolved to be the way it is, besides organisms humans have artificially selected. Evolution works blindly over many generations. Basically, as long as a gene doesn't hurt the ability of an organism to pass down that gene, it will get passed down.

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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: Doc_T]
    #14115451 - 03/13/11 06:00 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

mushrooms produce drugz so we can get bombd (in a good way) and bilirubin is just cool.

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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: raw-beets]
    #14115595 - 03/13/11 06:23 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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xBen, on your sig, if a chemical is blacked out does that mean you have done it or that you haven't done it?

And as an answer to your question, psilocybin/psilocin are produced to provide an interstellar interface for communication between extraterrestrial beings and anything with the appropriate nervous system. Well, that's one theory anyway.

There's no real reason why anything has evolved to be the way it is, besides organisms humans have artificially selected. Evolution works blindly over many generations. Basically, as long as a gene doesn't hurt the ability of an organism to pass down that gene, it will get passed down.




Crossed out means I have done it.

Thanks for your post as it's the only informational reply that I received,
I was thinking it could possibly be some sort of defense mechanism from animals and other predators.



I'll be crossing mushrooms off my list more than likely this weekend, btw.


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: raw-beets]
    #14115663 - 03/13/11 06:33 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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And as an answer to your question, psilocybin/psilocin are produced to provide an interstellar interface for communication between extraterrestrial beings and anything with the appropriate nervous system. Well, that's one theory anyway.




awesome hypothesis IMO :thumbup::ooo:


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: Primal Call]
    #14115751 - 03/13/11 06:49 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

We don't know its function in the mushrooms lifecyle.

I would imagine it has something to do with detouring insects, and animals from eating them but how knows it could just be their version of insulin??? :shrug:

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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #14115844 - 03/13/11 07:07 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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We don't know its function in the mushrooms lifecyle.

I would imagine it has something to do with detouring insects, and animals from eating them but how knows it could just be their version of insulin??? :shrug:




Well Doc_T mentioned bilirubin and that's actually the cause of the yellow coloring from our bruises, could psiloc(yb)in have something to do with a similar action but for mushrooms?

Is that not why they turn a bluish color when bruised?


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: Silhouette]
    #14115852 - 03/13/11 07:08 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

It's not.


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: Doc_T]
    #14115860 - 03/13/11 07:10 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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It's not.




I need to read more reliable sources then.


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: Silhouette]
    #14115928 - 03/13/11 07:20 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Oxidation is why they turn blue when they are bruised.

There does seem to be a correlation between potency and the amount of bluing though.

Again no clue why :shrug:

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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #14116067 - 03/13/11 07:53 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

I bet it was created as an interface between us and nature :drag:

And the bluing is from smurfs...


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: jmello]
    #14116201 - 03/13/11 08:22 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Who knows?

All I know for sure is that shrooms have prevented any chance of extinction due to their psilocybin producing capabilities; we cultivate them just for that purpose.


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: M11]
    #14116217 - 03/13/11 08:26 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

To teach us

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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: transkei]
    #14116315 - 03/13/11 08:43 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

the chemical is produced as a toxin that is their only defense mechanism.  It's not fatal to humans (near impossible to die from overdose), but it sure will make your body upset.  It's similar to caffeine- an insecticide, that stimulates out central nervous system (instead of killing us)


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: dmonkey1]
    #14116537 - 03/13/11 09:22 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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the chemical is produced as a toxin that is their only defense mechanism.  It's not fatal to humans (near impossible to die from overdose), but it sure will make your body upset.  It's similar to caffeine- an insecticide, that stimulates out central nervous system (instead of killing us)




It sure does prevent us from eating too many.

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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: M11] * 1
    #14116567 - 03/13/11 09:28 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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It sure does prevent us from eating too many.




speak for yourself  :datass:


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: Primal Call]
    #14116594 - 03/13/11 09:33 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Because most animals that eat the mushroom would get FREAKED OUT ( i.e. Dogs, cows, deer, etc) and would probably avoid it in the future. This is called an evolutionary measure. Lol.


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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: Primal Call]
    #14116633 - 03/13/11 09:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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It sure does prevent us from eating too many.




speak for yourself  :datass:




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Re: Why do mushrooms produce psilocybin/psilocin? [Re: M11]
    #14116867 - 03/13/11 10:23 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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the chemical is produced as a toxin that is their only defense mechanism.  It's not fatal to humans (near impossible to die from overdose), but it sure will make your body upset.  It's similar to caffeine- an insecticide, that stimulates out central nervous system (instead of killing us)




It sure does prevent us from eating too many.





its not an issue of too many.  It evolved over time to create toxins targeting non-mammalian species.  Kind of like how drinking too much coffee will make you shit yourself.


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