Posted on 08/17/2023 7:31:31 AM PDT by Brilliant
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen accidentally eating magic mushrooms in China was not on anyone's 2023 bingo card.
Last month, while discussing diplomacy overseas, Yellen dined at a restaurant during a visit to Beijing called Yi Zuo Yi (In and Out), a chain known for a Yunnan dish containing mushrooms called jian shou qing which means "see hand blue" in a rough translation.
However, Lanmaoa asiatica mushrooms (the mushrooms that are used in the dish) are not your average fungi — they're known to have hallucinogen properties and turn blue when pressure is applied to them.
Yellen didn't know this before consuming her dish, she told CNN, noting that she also did not order for the group nor have a clear understanding of what she was consuming.
"There was a delicious mushroom dish. I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties. I learned that later," she said. "All of us enjoyed the mushrooms, the restaurant, and none of us felt any ill effects from having eaten them…"
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“I was not aware”
We were Janet.
“none of us felt any ill effects from having eaten them…”
Because when you cook hallucinogenic mushrooms, you also destroy most of the hallucinogenic properties.
Judging from her job performance, I assumed she was eating psilocybin shrooms already.
I’m fine with it. It might do her good.
Well, that explains a lot!
And has been for years!
Remember she is a proponent of MMT - Modern Monetary Theory, a magic mushroom inspired economic theory if there ever was one!
Her trip along with the bowing and the shrooms is reminiscent to Madeline Albrite’s trip to North Korea in the 90s. The Dems seem so have an inexhaustible supply of blithering idiot women.
Not so.
One can smoke from a pipe "cooked" psilocybin. Probably get more high than ingesting raw.
Was watching a Cirque du Soleil show, this guy blurted out “Gee I wish I had some mushrooms”
she never recovered
LOL!
My favorite Madame Halfbright’s trip was when she attended some summit in Europe and everyone in the hotel mistook her for the maid. LOL.
“One can smoke from a pipe “cooked” psilocybin. Probably get more high than ingesting raw.”
It’s not really the heat alone that lessens the psychedelic properties, because those mainly come from the spores, which are quite resistant to heat. It’s the fact that when cooking a culinary dish, you almost always are using water and/or oil, both of which, in combination with heat, can effectively neutralize the spores.
Just roasting them alone, or smoking them in a pipe, wouldn’t have the same effect.
I accidentally got drunk and smoked pot in high school often.
You need to straighten yourself out, like I did, I quit drinking altogether, every week.
The old “accidentally-on-purpose” excuse.
Well.... accidents do happen. And, when they do, it CAN be often :-)
Interesting, thanks for that info... I greatly look forward to testing it!
Some make you small...
Some make you tall...
Go ask Alice...
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