Incunabula
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Couldn't help myself
Me neither Some really good posts in this thread though.
Couldn't help myself
The sacred aconitine is rarely mentioned.
Some of these things are probably metabolic by-products of other more useful chemicals.
Its never made sense that something like san pedro would evolve mescaline to defend against predators. Doseage is like 1ft, that's a hell of a lot of body to lose to make a point.
There is none - or you need to explain this question a bit more.
Nobody can be sure, but probably sometimes for pleasure, sometimes for religion, sometimes just by accident.
Psychedelics of one kind or another have been in use throughout human history.
Why do you exist?
No, they have powerful medical uses.
Yes.
Substituted tryptamines are very important in biology, so most of them show up in one place or another just because of random variation.
This is actually somewhat interesting - it's not random. DMT is a close chemical cousin of the amino acid tryptophan, which is one of the basic building blocks of life. Various relatives of DMT are produced naturally by many living things, including humans. They're so common that it would almost be stranger if there WERENT an animal that secretes them. (FYI, those toads don't really secrete DMT, but rather 5-MeO-DMT and 5-HO-DMT.)
There simply is no answer to this question. The closest thing is probably the fact that since substituted tryptamines are so important biologically, the DMT family was always bound to show up sooner or later.
I guess psychedelic drugs exist because they just do. That is the conclusion I will make from this. Everyone has their own opinions & answers/perspectives to this. So its kind of difficult to come up with a direct answer to the questions.
Thanks for sharing.
If there was nothing we wouldn't be around to ask that. Same for psys and other drugs.Why is there something instead of nothing ?