So I was in Healthy Lifestyles for Athletes today at my college (reqd. course for athletes) when my teacher mentioned that 3 people were reported to have died on "hallucinogenic mushrooms" as she put it. I'm thinkin no. No-one overdosed on shrooms. This from the same lady that said the govt. gave soldiers acid and didn't tell them, and each one of them went crazy for life and one jumped out a window because of the acid. I'm sure this is true, becuase if I were to see the things acid shows you without knowing why I'd go ape shit too. Damn I hate the mis-informed. Kyle
Omg that is why you are student adn have rigth to say.... i would love to argue with teacher and prove her wrong... after that she would chose words carefully.. and PLUS the main point is that ur fellow students will know the truth.. and maybe try this wonderful drug.... .
Actually both British and US government gave their soldiers LSD, sometimes without the soldier's knowledge, and some of them did have lingering psychiatric issues. Read up on MKULTRA, the US government's mind-control program back in the 50's and 60's. It has been reported that a small number of people have over-dosed on psychedelic mushrooms, though it's certainly very hard to do so. Your teacher was probably referring to people taking mushrooms and dying, not necessarily from an overdose. These things happen, and in fact an instance of a child of a minister or other politician in I think Ireland resulted in the banning of mushrooms in that country. Don't be so quick to fly off the handle, sometimes the grossly misinformed really aren't so misdirected as it would seem. Sometimes you too have to be more informed to make the judgement of misinformed.
No it wasn't a ministers son or a child, just an average joe, mid 20s. He took the mushrooms after been drinking alcohol for pretty much two days straight and threw himself out of a three story window and died. Strange they didn't try to outlaw alcohol (in Ireland, imagine the riots). He had also only taken the mushrooms only twenty minutes before he threw himself out the window, so they probably hadn't even started to take effect. Who knows why he decided to kill himself, but it was certanly nothing to do with mushrooms. People believe what they want to believe, or more apt in that particular case, what they are told to believe.
I figured she meant they didn't kill themselves just because of the mushrooms, but then she stated the same thing again. That they overdosed. While I'm sure you can OD on anything (water in fact will kill you in too high amounts) like you said it's so very unlikely. I just wish she'd at least understand things more before she'd say things about it. I highly doubt any of my classmates would try it. We're all D1 athletes, so pretty much free of everything but alcohol. Plus we have random testing, so we're pretty well limited on what we can do. I'm still very much on the handle. In fact, I built myself a nice little shanty right there on the end and tied it down so I sure wont' be flyin away! lol. Kyle
i have arguements like that with my science teacher everyday, if she fucks up on something (especially drug related) i call her on it, you're allowed to do it, it shows that you actually learn something and know what you're talking about, what else is school for?
Damn, I remember doing a project in Drug Ed in high school....I did it on LSD and basically filled with with "why not do LSD?" propaganda. It was sweet. Made a good grade, too...because it was all based on facts!
