People pick shrooms on cow poop patties? Thats absolutely disgusting, even if they may have nice effects
People eat vegetables fertilized with manure, and people eat pigs which root in and eat their own feces. I have small kids, and I can't count how many times I've wound up with crap on my hands. I wash them with a ton of soap, and then I feel comfortable eating with my hands. I've never done shrooms, but I assume people wash them pretty thoroughly before eating them.
This. Also, people doing shrooms aren't making the best decisions in life to begin with. (Scribo- you should be both washing and using alcohol-based hand sanitizer)
Oh, believe me. I wash with potent stuff that would kill you if you drank a thimble full. Thankfully, we're about to start potty training the youngest. It will be so nice not to have change any more diapers.
it's true that wild shrooms grow off cow patties, but most of the shrooms out there are grown indoors not on poop
http://morallowground.com/2011/06/16/johns-hopkins-medical-school-magic-mushrooms-are-good-for-you/ "Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found out what any gristly old hippie or Burning Man veteran could tell you: that taken in the right doses, psilocybin– the active ingredient in ‘magic’ mushrooms– is good for you. Really good for you. So good that the experience will probably rank as one of the most spiritually significant of your life. Not only that, but the drug, when taken in the proper quantity, also creates positive changes in attitude, mood, life satisfaction and behavior that continue for more than a year after ingestion."
It seems I was being a bit ignorant when it came to cow poop in general. Not the fact that its nasty you would choose to eat something out of feces, but that its a very useful thing: Tibetan cow poop cow poop is collected and dried by the Tibetan to be burned as feul for heating their houses Looks like its a pretty systematic process, they are first pressed into the form of a circle about 30 cm wide, 3 cm thick and dried in the sun till they are hard enough to be used even as Frisbees. People even use them to construct their houses, never mind the smell. To prevent the poop from liquifying The exterior poop is spread thick and strong to keep the interior poop dry through the rains. It's doubtful that the houses can survive much more than a few weeks of rain, but that should be enough to keep the poop hard enough until the weather clears up enough to dry more cowpies. The poop is even engraved with artistic designs to make the house look more aesthetic http://photos.travellerspoint.com/281321/_MG_1953.jpg[/IMG [IMG]http://www.poopreport.com/Images/Travel/Cowpoop/house1.jpg With all this talk of alternative energy and resources why aren't options like this being explored? It seems like some countries are working on how to use it to power larger facilities as it is no short supply One cow poops more than 120 pounds of manure every day. A study from the EPA published in 1998 showed that U.S. dairy cows produced 54 billion pounds of manure annually.
It can be quite a good thing, but it's not for everyone. Anyone new to such experiences should have a guide they trust to accompany them, IMHO.
Just try to avoid doing it indoors (would not reccomend that at all), try to avoid doing it by yourself (also would not recommend that) and completely avoid driving on it. Great trips are amazing, eyeopening and possibly life changing. Bad trips can be the COMPLETE opposite of that (possibly even ruining your life). Do it when you are in a positive state of mind (no really stresses or anything).
So long as you use lots of friction and lots of lather for at least 15 seconds, there is no need for the hand sanitizer. There are plenty of things/germs/bacteria the sanitizer doesn't take care of/kill, but plain hand-washing does the job.
You're right, there are things that sanitizer doesn't kill. There are things that washing won't kill. So you do both. I work in medical clinics and it's part of my medical safety training- same thing the nurses and docs have to do. When it comes to germs, I'm going to err on the side of caution and medical training.
