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Chris -- 2011-03-08
A drug that makes you silly. Rare: 10-20 ghits. Examples:
People say that heat destroys sillycybin, but obviously not easily.
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... actually, just regular mushrooms, but its OK with me if some
babushka gets confused and grabs some A. Muscaria or Sillycybin instead.
www.rwguide.com/thread_24390_a_pie_by_another_name.html
Trust me, sillycybin are much easier to grow.
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IMHO Mescaline is closer to an acid trip than sillycybin.
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I wonder whether some of those are intentional puns.
Jerry Friedman
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Probably there’s some punning going on there. I note that nicknames for psilocybin include not just “silly cybin” but also “silly putty” and “simple simon”... see: <http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/drugs/psilocybin.asp>. Perhaps this kind of wordplay often goes on among those under influence of the drug?
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