zogger's Journal: In search of a real magic mushroom

There is a hunt on to find more of, and more about, a certain rare mushroom because of some astounding potential medical benefits.

Mushrooms

[chill]

Fascinating story.

"Intrinsic value"

[dpilot]

I was once in a bit of an online argument with a Libertarian about "intrinsic value", and he insisted that there was no such thing. The only value anything had was that assigned by people, and no other issue was of import. My counter argument was that there are things where we only realize the true value later, after learning more. I believe at the time my examples were the Pacific Yew and the fly ash from copper refining. Both were "valueless" until the "discovery" of Taxol for the former, and subseque

Thank you

[RM6f9]

For a truly awesome story!

Psilocybin?

[mcgrew]

I guess I'll have to RTFA...

OK, after two paragraphs, maybe mushrooms themselves are magic. It mentions penicillin, I wonder how many other fungi have medicinal properties?

However, those muchrooms that grow from cow turds really ARE magic.

Now, something that puzzled me that I guess I'll have to reserach:

That a homely, humble fungus could fight off virulent diseases like smallpox and TB might seem odd, until one realizes that even though the animal kingdom branched off from the fungi kingdom around 650 milli