Dagga

08/12/2025

Basically every Monday for me

25/11/2025

Saturday marked 40 years since the passing of María Sabina (Nov. 22, 1985), the Mazatec curandera whose sacred mushroom ceremonies changed the course of psychedelic history.
In 1955, she welcomed ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson into her velada and introduced him to psilocybin mushrooms—an encounter that helped ignite the West’s psychedelic movement.

But the sudden attention brought hardship. Outsiders flooded her village, traditional ways were disrupted, and María Sabina faced backlash from her own community for opening their sacred practices to the world.

Her legacy remains profound: a healer, a poet, and one of the most important figures in modern psychedelic culture.

16/11/2025

Scientists have just solved a 90-year-old mycology mystery.

A WVU microbiology student, Corinne Hazel, finally discovered the fungus that Albert Hofmann (yes, the guy who invented L*D) believed existed but could never find.

The long-running question was: if morning glory seeds contain lysergic acid compounds, and only fungi can make those, then where was the fungus hiding?

Back in the 1930s, Hofmann noticed that morning glory seeds contained psychedelic lysergic acid derivatives closely related to the ergot alkaloids he was studying.

He was convinced a hidden fungus was responsible, because plants can’t make these molecules on their own.

But decades of searching turned up nothing, and the “morning glory fungus” became this almost mythical creature in the mycology world. Suspected, but never seen.

Hazel found it more or less by accident.

While studying how morning glories move alkaloids through their roots, she spotted a bit of fuzz on some seed coats lying around the lab.

That fuzz turned out to be the missing fungus.

Genome sequencing confirmed it was a brand-new species, now officially named Periglandula clandestina - basically “the hidden one,” which fits perfectly considering it dodged scientists for nearly a century.

The discovery has real pharmaceutical potential.

P. clandestina produces ergot alkaloids very efficiently, and these compounds - while toxic in the wrong context - form the basis of drugs used for migraines, Parkinson’s, dementia, and even advanced versions like L*D for depression and PTSD.

Scientists hope that finally having access to the actual fungus could help them develop cleaner, safer derivatives with fewer side effects.

For now, Hazel is figuring out how to grow the fungus reliably (it’s slow and finicky) and exploring whether other morning glory species are hiding their own fungal partners.

The research is published in Mycologia, and the genome is now in a public database with Hazel’s name on it, which is a huge achievement for an undergrad.

As she put it, “People have been looking for this fungus for years… and one day, I look in the right place, and there it is.”

12/11/2025

For the love of the fun guys

10/11/2025

09/11/2025

He's just staying high-drated

08/11/2025

Ouid de Parfum

07/11/2025

My is just 🌿 and 🍄

06/11/2025

“Never argue with fools— they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

- Mark Twain

05/11/2025

We ended up rolling one and becoming best friends

04/11/2025

Need me one of these signs