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[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 47 points 6 hours ago

I was going to research this myself, but then I got high.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 32 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I was gonna write my final report, but then I got high..

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 hours ago

And now I'm shitposting on Lemmy and I know why, yeah-heah...

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 points 5 hours ago
[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Lah dah dah, bah dah dah

[-] mech@feddit.org 15 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The seeds are carried by birds and can survive in a dormant state for years.
Lots of stuff like trees washed away by rivers end up floating in the ocean.
But it's also perfectly feasible that a limited trade happened far in the past.
Polynesians showed that you can reliably cross even the pacific on boats made using stone tools and fire.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 3 hours ago

Limited trade... There were full on global trade networks through most of human history. Ironically, not as much across the Atlantic, because civilization in the Americas was centered on the West coast

But you find all sorts of stuff turning up everywhere. Not much of it, and most of it is lost to history, but enough to establish that global trade networks were the norm and not the exception

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 hours ago

Humans before the Ice Age were fishing for tuna in the deep sea and were coastal hopping everywhere there are coasts to hop.

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

Most of human history:

[-] becausechemistry@lemy.lol 8 points 4 hours ago

Graduate students famously never make mistakes (like including their own hair in samples) and also never smoke weed. So that couldn’t be it.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

They especially don't smoke weed. No sir!

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Some things get around because they're so pretty, don't worry about it

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I walk past this plant all the time and I'm super tempted. I did salvia so I feel like the effects shouldn't freak me out. Rn I just kill them with gloves. We get also get Ricinus, that's not as tempting.

To give an honest answer, it's so fucking invasive I wouldn't be surprised if actually managed to survive a trip across the Atlantic or the pacific.

The question is how? I don't think we'll know until we find the "vessel" that carried it.

[-] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 hours ago

Don't, every trip report is horrifying, there are better ways to get high, that are also safer.

On top of being a bad experience datura doses are very hard to get right, you are very likely to overdose and die. And like I said, If you don't die, you will get a traumatic experience that can possibly fuck your mental health for decades.

Alternative drugs exist if you want to get high. Please check trip reports and harm reduction sources before trying anything.

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Like salvia but worse. And every salvia story is awful.

[-] Kaput@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago

isn't that like the nightmare drug, that you can rather easily die from?

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yeh, I just want to make a weak tea and slowly try it out. The seed pods sound horrible, but I'm probably going to make tea from the leaves.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

I've eaten the seeds, they're nasty unless dried out. Read the dangers beforehand. It'll mess with your vision the next day, supposedly there is a chance of going blind. The hallucinations I experienced were pretty convincing, you might want to have a friend keep an eye on you. My buddy overdid things and got picked up by the cops, they put him in the psych ward

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

I also did salvia but I wouldn't touch datura with a 10 ft pole.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Oh god, I wouldn't touch salvia divinorum either unless you want an intense, mind-melting trip that lasts 5 minutes and a sweaty itch all over your body that lasts for 8. That's not a recreational trip, that's for people who want to feel uncomfortable as a new life experience.

[-] Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

There’s a bunch of Datura species, that looks like Datura wrightii.

[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 17 points 6 hours ago

Wouldn’t there be other possible plants that would provide the same alkaloid compounds?

[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago
[-] negativenull@piefed.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios!

[-] forrgott@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 hours ago

But birds aren't real, haven't you heard?

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 4 points 5 hours ago
[-] paequ2@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago

A well a everybody's heard about the bird B-b-b bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word

[-] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 2 points 3 hours ago

Damn Central American Swallows!

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 5 hours ago

Have to be migratory, of course.

[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 12 points 6 hours ago

Uh, that's... Shit! I was going to sleep soon too!

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