Hallucinogenic Fish
I've heard of hallucinogenic frogs - hallucinogenic mushrooms - hallucinogenic bread (ergot poisoning - the supposed cause of the Salem witchcraft trials) - but I had never heard of hallucinogenic fish, well until now that is. It's funny- it seems like humans are the only primate that will self-administer hallucinogens. If you give a monkey any drug it will gladly take it over and over again - but once they've tried LSD... Never again will they try it."The effects of eating ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes, such as certain mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels and rabbitfish, are believed to be similar to LSD, and may include vivid and terrifying auditory and visual hallucinations. This has given rise to the collective common name for ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes of "dream fish"...
The poisoning can start to cause vivid hallucinations within minutes of eating a poisonous fish and may last for days, often with no other effects. There is no antidote.
Ichthyoallyeinotoxism
Indoles, with similar chemical effects to LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) are believed to be responsible and may be consumed when the fish eat algae or phytoplankton containing the chemicals. All of the species effected by ichthyoallyeinotoxism are algal grazers.Others have claimed that different species of ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes, such as Kyphosus fuseus, contain much more potent hallucinogens, such as dimethyltryptamine or DMT, which is considered to be one of the world's most mind-bending hallucinogenic chemicals."
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[quote]If you give a monkey any drug it will gladly take it over and over again - but once they've tried LSD... Never again will they try it.[/quote]
There's has been done research on monkeys and DMT, possibly the most powerfull hallucinogen on the planet and an indegenous compound of the human brain as well. The monkeys where given access to a device which could be use to self administer a dose of DMT. The monkeys kept taking DMT, on some occasion in favor of food. Source: The archaic revival by Terence Mckenns.
So monkeys do take hallucinogens but maybe not lsd specifically. I can't blame them personally since DMT is much more interesting ;)
Fri Jan 19, 08:58:06 AM CST
There's has been done research on monkeys and DMT (possibly the most powerfull hallucinogen on the planet and an indegenous compound of the human brain as well which makes it extremely interesting). The monkeys where given access to a device which could be use to self administer a dose of DMT. The monkeys kept taking DMT, on some occasion even in favor of food. Source: The archaic revival by Terence Mckenns.
So monkeys do take hallucinogens but maybe not lsd specifically.
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Fri Jan 19, 08:59:38 AM CST
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