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Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations (nhmu.utah.edu)

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[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What's the psychoactive chemical?

[–] ElderReflections@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Chemical and genomic analyses performed on Lanmaoa asiatica at the Natural History Museum of Utah have revealed no traces of any known psychoactive compounds, suggesting that something entirely new is waiting to be discovered.

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's cool means that its not illegal

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

...yet 🫠

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 1 week ago

In the UK it would be. Anything psychoactive is illegal, except for an exemption list including things like alcohol, caffeine and theobromine.