spittingimage,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

Step 1: tell the internet cicadas contain drugs.

Step 2: ?

Step 3: guy admitted to hospital with a can of Raid up his ass.

niktemadur,

tiktok cicada drug

littlebluespark,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

Step 4: Profit?

where_am_i,

A human pandemic like that would end up with at least half of the population resisting the cure.

Coincidentally, I think I might’ve figured a solution to the climate change.

shneancy,

this is assuming the cults haven’t rolled out before the cure

it’s so trivially easy to create a psychedelics based cult, and now suddenly everyone is experiencing the same? My friend it’d be a dawn of a new religion

Neato,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

Infectious magic mushrooms would be the greatest human pandemic. The last one, too.

phobiac,
@phobiac@lemmy.world avatar

This same fungal infection causes the males to have sex until their butts fall off, so I’m pretty sure some humans would seek it out.

TacoNot,

Just read the Wikipedia entry for that fungus. I saw cathinone was mentioned, but I did not see anything about psilocybin

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massospora_cicadina

fossilesque,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar
disguy_ovahea,

Neither of these links state psilocybin is in the fungus.

fossilesque, (edited )
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar
disguy_ovahea,

There we are. Thank you for your diligence!

TacoNot, (edited )

From your second link:

Here we report the discovery, through global and targeted metabolomics supported by metagenomics and proteomics, of the plant amphetamine, cathinone, in Massospora cicadina-infected periodical cicadas, and the mushroom tryptamine, psilocybin, in M. platypediae- and M. levispora-infected annual cicadas.

It appears that the two chemicals come from two different fungi. Or I could be misinterpreting that.

Edit: PS. I appreciate all of the content that you post. I just thought this was an interesting subject.

fossilesque,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

No worries. I am half distracted tonight :)

Tar_alcaran,

Wait, where’s the cicade recipe I saw a few days ago?

littlebluespark,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not waiting around, thanks. Besides, if you start cooking while still looking for it, I’m sure something’ll turn up. 🤪

Dasus, (edited )

Psilocybin is somewhat unstable as a chemical, so heat will cause it to break down pretty fast, so be careful how you cook them.

Tar_alcaran,

I don’t really like rare cicadas, so I guess that’s not going to work then.

bruhbeans,

This is how I wanna go

Akasazh, (edited )
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

Aldous Huxley, renowned writer of Brave New World was an enjoyer of psychedelics. He wrote the book ‘the doors of perception’ about his psychonautic experiences, inadvertently christening a popular band, the Doors.

On his deathbed he had his wife inject him with a large dose of LSD. Leaving this world tripping. His death went unnoticed by much of the world as he died the same day JFK was assassinated.

shneancy,

that’s amazing. I want to go out like that too

Thcdenton,

You will eat the bugs

No_Eponym,
@No_Eponym@lemmy.ca avatar

Mother Nature’s equivelant of drenching vegetables in honey. “C’mon humanity, they are sustainable! For the love of Gaia, eat them…”

Maaj,
@Maaj@hexbear.net avatar

… … …so are we eating the cicadas, or smoking them?

Texas_Hangover,

I prefer to grind them up and snort them.

mihnt,

Party 'til you drop apparently according to the non-highlighted sentence.

cosmicrookie, (edited )
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

Not too long ago, I saw a (cruel) recipe for cicadas here on lemmy!

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Drug bug!

Catoblepas,

Not the worst way to go if you have to be slowly eaten alive by a fungus.

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