In the lush forests of Brazil, researchers have found a glow-in-the-dark mushroom not seen since 1840. The long-  forgotten fungus has been reclassified, but scientists are still trying to determine just what makes the mysterious  mushroom glow — and why.

read more at: http://www.livescience.com/14939-glowing-mushrooms-discovered-brazil.html

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Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine claim to have determined the proper dose levels needed to create positive changes in attitudes, mood, life satisfaction, and behavior that persist for more than a year with the psychoactive substance in so-called “magic mushrooms.”
The findings are the latest in a series of experiments done at Johns Hopkins to investigate psilocybin, a psychedelic substance contained in certain mushrooms. The findings were published online this week in the peer-reviewed journalPsychopharmacology.

read the article: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/15/magic-mushrooms-positive-clinical-effects-lasting-over-a-year-say-researchers/

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