I did hear that Laplanders drink reindeer piss to get high - the reindeer eat the 'shrooms without effect and the muscanol is concentrated in their urine.
Will have to wade through some website for more info *
Anon - there is no way I am going to answer your questions under my own username!
Let's face it, you didn't dare to do so!
If you set up an anonymous poll I would though
* True, according to
this BBC article on the origin of Chrsitmas iconography.
Quote:
Reindeer are a kind of deer found in the cold regions of Europe and North America (locally referred to as 'caribou'). They feed on grass and lichens, but also have a taste for the fly agaric toadstool, Amanita muscaria, because of its intoxicating and euphoric effects. Amanita muscaria is found in pine and birch woods of western North America, northern Europe, and Asia.
The Sami have a custom of feeding fly agaric to their deer and collecting the urine to drink. The reindeer's digestive system metabolises the more poisonous components of the toadstool, leaving urine with the hallucinogenic and psychotropic elements of the fungus intact. Drinking the urine gives a 'high' similar to taking LSD. Under the hallucinatory effects of the drink, the Sami thought their reindeer were flying through space, looking down on the world. The reindeers' liking for the toadstool hallucinogens are such that they, in turn, have been known to eat the snow on which intoxicated humans have urinated, creating a reciprocating cycle.
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