(2026-07-19, 01:50 PM)Laird Wrote: The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic
New magic mushroom makes users see tiny ‘gnome’ people — scientists have no idea how it’s doing that
June 28, 2026
Hannah Sparks
New York Post (via Yahoo! News)
Quote:"The little people are said to typically like teasing, playing with or harassing the person seeing them," said Domnauer.
Yet, no one seems surprised by this, he explained. "Everyone knows that this mushroom has this property and can make you see little people, but they'll continue to eat it anyway, because they're just not afraid of that effect."
Just how that effect is produced is what Domnauer's reserach is all about. Where research into psilocybin has exploded in recent decades, the effects of L. asiatica are woefully understudied — likely due to the fact that scientists have not yet been able to isolate and name the psychoactive compounds that's causing them.
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