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Why DIY Magic Mushroom Growers are Gathering in an Uncle Ben’s Rice Subreddit

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 04 2020, @05:32PM   
from the for-science dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://uproxx.com/life/diy-magic-mushrooms-uncle-ben/

There's a subreddit for just about everything, but if you're a legit Uncle Ben's fan who is also a serious Redditor (that's a lonely island), you might be disappointed to find that the subreddit r/UncleBens isn't so much a gathering of hardcore pre-cooked rice fans, as it is an online sub-community of DIY psilocybin cultivators who are using Uncle Ben's and other supermarket staples to grow magic mushrooms.

[...] What makes Uncle Bens the perfect vessel for psilocybin, according to the r/UncleBens crew, is that mushroom cultivation "requires a sterile, nutrient-rich environment in which their spores can grow," and since Uncle Ben's rice is pre-cooked, sterilized and vacuum-sealed, it provides the necessary environment for cultivation.

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• Re:Moisture levels (Score: 3, Informative) by canopic jug on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:29PM

  by canopic jug (3949) on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:29PM (#1016532) Journal

  Some municipalities will run a fungicide through the drinking water lines once a year, unannounced. So anyone serious has an alternative source year round.

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