Has this ever happened to you?

Originally Posted by alphageek31337

I'd love to see a source that says that amanita muscaria, muscaria var. formosa, pantherina or other amanitas used psychedelically contain strychnine (not other species, as it is common knowledge that a large number of mushrooms will easily kill you). This is not a challenge, I am not trying to disprove you. I'd just really like to see a source before I go ahead and try some of this stuff.

AMANITA PHALLOIDES (Mushrooms) - This kind of mushroom is
distinguishable from its non-lethal, tasty twin AGARICUS CAMPESTRIS by
its tiny white scales and warts. You can cook amanita without
detoxificating it at all, so it is quite easy to serve this baby up to
somebody without arousing suspicion. You've got 12 hours to head down
to Mexico before your victim gets hit with relatively mild nausea,
vomiting and diarrhea. These won't be too bad for another day or so,
when they will become bad enough that he will seek medical assistance.
But by then it may be too late, and death by circulatory collapse may
have occurred. If not, then in 3 or 4 days his skin will turn yellow
from liver deterioration, and how long can you live without a liver?

http://www.textfiles.com/drugs/poisons.txt

In the 60's many psychotropics were laced with strychnine. I don't have contacts with the hallucinegetic drug world anymore (everybody who was under the age of 30 and alive in the 60's had such contacts almost by default), so I don't know if this is still a common practice. Amanita in the right dose is still deadly, however.