------------------
Listen to brother oDin,show us your tits!:D
I
love Oolar!!

Anyway, your story reminded me of a similar experiance I had. I'm not sure if this is what you experianced or not. I talked with a very knowledgeable friend of mine about this experiance and he immediately knew what I was describing. He said he had an identical experiance once when he ate wild mushrooms picked in a highly populated city. He researched and found out theres a certain contaminent that when ingested with psilocin reacts in this manner. It only occurs in an area where pollution is high. I live in ATL. and the smog was at it all time highest last summer. I'm not sure if this was the cause or not. People in the west eat stunzi's that grow in the from yard of their suburbia neighborhood and don't experiance any side effects. All I can say is be aware of the area in which the mushrooms are growing. Its is said that mushrooms along roadsides can contain many toxins from trash, exhaust fumes, etc..

The Lizard,

I would like to mention that iof one were to asked Paul Stamets about me he would say well Mushroom John has picked more musrooms in his life than any person Paul has ever known.

I speak this in response to your topic of smog and exhaust fumes along roads and parking areas.

In Seattle between 1973 and 1986, I must have picked more than one million mushrooms, Many of which were Psilocybe stuntzii and many were growing in parking lots, along sidewalks by streets, the moostt common area in Seattle and the whole of Pugot Sound all the way from British Colombia to Eugen, Oregon, where Jochen Gartz and I picked a thirty pound patch in 1994, and we have eaten these shrooms and given them to hundreds of other peole and noone has ever gotten sick or ill from the musrhooms.

Farmers even spray chemicals in their fields and fertilizers int their fields. Cows eat the chemicals and fertilizers and they also fall on the shrooms which the cows also eat while they eat the grass.

I see no reason for this topic you guys posted to lead to more disinformation about the shrooms.

No one gets sick from chemicals on their shrooms or exhausts or other outrside stimulai.

Bye for now,

Mj

The Lizard,

------------------
Would YOU trade your funk for what's behind the third door?

Anyway... I found lots of info searching this Mushroom Hunting forum (top right of the page) using the terms "bay area" "san franciso", etc. Seems Redwood Park is a hotspot at the right times

Good luck

GT