the bear
Massagegirl: I saw that movie on tv once. I can't remember if the little bear was orphaned or just separated from its mother for a while, but I do rmember it eating the mushrooms. It had a nice little trip involving some butterflies it saw.
I always thought that amanita muscaria, the mushroom with the red cap and white spots, was a poisonous mushroom with some psychedelic effects (and I am not sure if that's just because you don't take a lethal dose).
So I looked it up on
magic-mushrooms.net
and saw this
"don't confuse psilocybe mushrooms with Amanita Muscaria (fly agaric). There is no psilocybin nor psilocyn in Fly Agaric and we don't consider it a 'real' magic mushroom.
The (red with white dots) Amanita Muscaria can cause a very unpleasent experience and health problems. Potential symptoms of Muscarine, an active alkaloid of Fly Agaric and other Amanita's, followed after ingestion as described by The Merck Index are: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache and bronchospasm. With larger doses: acrimation, incontinence, bracycardia, hypotension and shock. Ibotanic acid, also an active substance of the Amanita's may cause brain damage as described by various authors on Public Medline. Muscimole is another active alkaloid in Amanita Muscaria. Its symptoms after oral intake are described by Richard Schultzes and Albert Hofmann as confusion, disorientation in situation and time perception, disturbance of visual function and hearing, muscle twitching, weariness, fatigue and sleep."
Muscimole....what is that...mescaline in a mole sauce?
