Hamilton Morris
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POD 50: Patreon subscriber Q&A!
🕑 Added 2022-07-12 19:27:07 +0000 UTCI answer the first batch of questions here! Topics discussed include salvinorin A kinetics, pineal decalcification, panpsychism, and shared hallucinations.
There were a lot of questions, I will try to answer a second batch of questions later this month.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvebgv/salvia-velada-mazatec-shaman-ceremony-portfolio-v23n8
Lastly, at one point in this I say that ingestion of formic acid causes blindness. I assumed this was the case because formic acid is typically considered the toxic metabolite with methanol ingestion and many sources suggest it directly damages the optic nerve but I now wonder if that is truly the case. Case reports of high dose formic acid ingestion do not describe blindness so clearly there is some additional complexity in the matter.
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Davin
Went back to this one before sending in my question for the latest Q&A to ensure no repeats! A truly fantastic Q&A!
Anthony Roman
Likely devices that use mass spectrometry. I’ve seen those used at festivals before along with reagent tests
Brayden Priebe
Does anyone know what specific portable analytical instruments Hamilton is referring to when talking about testing compounds at festivals?
Brayden Priebe
Neurobiologically, AFAIK, there's no evidence to suggest frequent tryptamine use has any toxic effects. Psychologically? Perhaps... Like Hamilton says, pharmacology is utterly complicated, so it's difficult to give an absolute answer for a question like this. What's true for me might not be true for you. IME, you know when you're doing it too much.
Shawhin Layeghi
DMT every day? I feel like we all hear “wait AT LEAST two weeks between trips or you’ll go insane!!”, but clearly people like Hamilton, the chromium carbene guy, shulgin and friends, would trip on serotonergics very frequently… is it not that risky?
