Jeg spiste engang chokolade på et Copelandia Cyanenscens trip. Det blev vildere end forventet, hvilket jeg godt kunne lide. Dog nægter jeg at tro det har noget med chokoladen at gøre!

grineren skal da lige ha købt en plade marubou med til næste trip

Det har det unægteligt!
Cacao er en mild MAO hæmmer og hjælper derfor til at booste et svampetrip. Så simpelt er det faktisk




Pas forbandet meget på med det, trippet kan blive meget kraftigere end forventet, som du også kan læse foroven!

I det hele taget er der en masse sundheds og ernæringsmæssige forbehold man skal tage sig hvis man vil rode med MAOi (herunder cacao/chokolade) og psykadeliske stoffer..

Gordon Wasson fik serveret varm cacao inden sit første svampetrip, hos Eva Mendez, en mazatec indianer. Det var en del af den traditionelle praxis, så mon ikke de har luret den.

There is, however, a persistent rumor that chocolate itself is an MAOI. The primary support given for this seems to be something that Terence McKenna once said about the Mayan custom of mixing chocolate with mushrooms (suggesting they did this to potentiate the mushrooms with the chocolate). Regardless, we have not been able to find any solid evidence that chocolate is, in fact, an MAOI.

I det hele taget er der en masse sundheds og ernæringsmæssige forbehold man skal tage sig hvis man vil rode med MAOi (herunder cacao/chokolade) og psykadeliske stoffer..

Other
The latest breakthrough in chocolate research comes from Emmanualle di Tomaso et al. who have found that chocolate contains pharmacologically active substances that mimic the effects of marijuana on the brain (Di Tomasso et al. 1996). The pursuit of this line of research came from the observations that chocolate cravings were associated with psychoses induced by
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certain drugs, such as MDMA (Chianese 1992; Di Tomasso et al. 1996). This suggested that chocolate cravings and effects are more than a sensory experience of the nervous system they involve some sort of pharmacologically active substance. Even though earlier research had focused on methylxanthines (caffeine and theobromine), these scientists focused on another substance, anandamide. Anandamide is a member of a family of fatty acid ethanolamides composed of arachidonic acid coupled to ethanolamine through an amide linkage (Devane et al.
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studies have also shown connections between opioids and chocolate. In one study, beta-endorphin release was caused in rats by consumption of chocolate milk or chocolate candy, which provides direct evidence of chocolate effects in the central nervous system (Drewnowski et al. 1992; Dum et al. 1983). Some researchers have also concluded that opioid release plays a role in development of food preferences, which is clearly consistent with chocolate cravings. Further evidence comes from studies showing that sweet cravings are often associated with opiate addiction and opiate withdrawal is sometimes eased by sweets (Drewnowski et al. 1992). While this data does not imply that chocolate has the same effects on the body as opiates, it provides strong evidence for a role of the endogenous opioid peptide system in chocolate effects.
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This research, along with all the research discussed previously, provides an interesting beginning into the discovery of the neurochemical effects of chocolate and the basis for chocolate craving, although there are still many unanswered questions.