can you die from shrooms?

so me and a friend had a debate about magic mushrooms last night. he was telling me they are poison and you can die if you eat too much. i thought i read numerous times before that you cannot overdose. just have a very strong/long trip. i never heard of anyone dying. sure you could have distorted perceptions and do something dangerous but thats dangerous but thats not the shrooms fault. input? off to wikipedia for now i guess.

update: according to wikipedia- There is virtually no direct lethality associated with psilocin

No, but it can sure feel like you're dying sometimes.

i think it all comes down to the type of mushrooms you eat. like in washington state the hippies walk around the woods pulling mushrooms off of logs and stuff. here in florida you find them growing on cow shit and they are very good. they have 3 or 4 kinds here that you can get then they have a death cap. a death cap is a mushroom that will grow along side the magic ones and if you eat too many it will kill you. i have never heard of anyone dying at all from mushrooms. but im sure its possible. the active ingredient is psychocilliban(spelling?) and maybe you can research that and find out more about it

heathaa said:

i think it all comes down to the type of mushrooms you eat. like in washington state the hippies walk around the woods pulling mushrooms off of logs and stuff. here in florida you find them growing on cow shit and they are very good. they have 3 or 4 kinds here that you can get then they have a death cap. a death cap is a mushroom that will grow along side the magic ones and if you eat too many it will kill you. i have never heard of anyone dying at all from mushrooms. but im sure its possible. the active ingredient is psychocilliban(spelling?) and maybe you can research that and find out more about it

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yeah i checked wikipedia, its psilocin. thanks tho. i'll rep everyone when i can. cant give anymore for 24 hrs cause of riu's limitations.

Shrooms are poisonous. Its your bodies reaction to the poison the brings the "trip". Never heard of anyone dying but sure its possible if u eat enough. There is a small music festivle here every year called community fest. Last year a young man stabbed and killed HIMSELF after ingesting too many mushrooms and wigging out. Not a direct overdose but they did cause the kids death. Be careful with those things esp if out picking your own.

jimmy jones said:

Shrooms are poisonous. Its your bodies reaction to the poison the brings the "trip". Never heard of anyone dying but sure its possible if u eat enough. There is a small music festivle here every year called community fest. Last year a young man stabbed and killed HIMSELF after ingesting too many mushrooms and wigging out. Not a direct overdose but they did cause the kids death. Be careful with those things esp if out picking your own.

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Tylenol is more of a poison than mushrooms.

now im reading about psilocybin.

The toxicity of psilocybin is low; in rats, the oral LD[SIZE=-1]50[/SIZE] is 280 mg/kg, approximately one and a half times that of caffeine. When administered intravenously in rabbits, psilocybin's LD50 is approximately 12.5 mg/kg[53] (however rabbits are extremely intolerant to the effects of most psychoactive drugs). The lethal dose from psilocybin toxicity alone is unknown at recreational or medicinal levels, and has never been documented; a 2008 case report noted "Death from psilocybin intake alone is unknown at recreational or medicinal levels."[54] Psilocybin makes up roughly 1% of the weight of Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, and so nearly 1.7 kilograms of dried mushrooms, or 17 kilograms of fresh mushrooms, would be required for a 60 kg person to reach the 280 mg/kg LD50 rate of rats.

i dont get it what is the difference between psilocin and psilocybin?

420God said:

Tylenol is more of a poison than mushrooms.

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very true. tylenol is some nasty shit. terrible for your liver. that is actually why its bad to take a lot of vicodin. vicodin is mostly tylenol with a little hydrocodone. thats another story though.

you'd puke WAAAAAYYYYY before you'd die... physically at least. that LD50 says it all. now your ego is another matter entirely; prone to mortality whilst tripping.
how awesome would it be to watch some genius try to eat 3 pounds of dried shrooms... i wanna party with THAT guy.

The difference between a medicine and a poison is the dosage.

Basically you would have to eat about 500 grams of dried mushys to even have a 50% chance of dying. Soda , Tylenol , & coffee does more harm to your body than mushys. Had a pleasant trip myself last night!

when I was into that my friends all did acid, I chose shrooms because it seemed more natural. all said and done shrooms are not as bad as acid.
and no I have never heard of anyone dying from them, other than the stupid shit you may do when high

rosecitypapa said:

No, but it can sure feel like you're dying sometimes.

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if this were facebook i would like this haha

weasels911 said:

The difference between a medicine and a poison is the dosage.

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so true...

As far as feeling like your dying. Once you understand that bad trips are triggered by emotions & your surroundings , you will then have a much easier time controling the trip. Never trip after a bad day, or emotional day. Never trip after a traumatic situation, or if you have a mental disorder. Any emotions of depression or bipolarism will send you into a bummer.

I think your friend is confusing psilocybin cubensis with amanita muscaria

at least as far as the 'its technically poison'

canibud said:

when I was into that my friends all did acid, I chose shrooms because it seemed more natural. all said and done shrooms are not as bad as acid.
and no I have never heard of anyone dying from them, other than the stupid shit you may do when high

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Id eat acid any day over shrooms... Mushroom's body high is way to intense for me.

But shroom's def arnt bad, but LSD really isnt either. I dont think anyone's ever died from LSD either and people have eaten extremely large dose's...

Maybe a little more poisonous than grapes.

Michael Phelps said:

Id eat acid any day over shrooms... Mushroom's body high is way to intense for me.

But shroom's def arnt bad, but LSD really isnt either. I dont think anyone's ever died from LSD either and people have eaten extremely large dose's...

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From what I've read, there's been one reported death from LSD. He thought it was speed and shot up a shit-ton.

Daath said:

From what I've read, there's been one reported death from LSD. He thought it was speed and shot up a shit-ton.

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imagine how many balls that dude tripped...