Also the instructions to synthesize LSD are public, they just involve thousands of dollars worth of lab equipment and a good theoretical and practical knowledge of organic chemistry.
Abandon modernism, RETVRN to St. Anthony’s Fire :shinji-losing-it: :cognitohazard: :isaac-cry:
I’m sure you know that but the fact ergot is pointed as the source of various weird goings on in history is highly unlikely - it’s almost certainly a myth. It doesn’t work in terms of dosage. Mind you I’m still personally convinced that whatever they did at the height of the Eleusinian Mysteries (which your article mentions) involved a strong psychedelic - it just wasn’t ergot.
Abandon modernism, RETVRN to St. Anthony’s Fire
:shinji-losing-it: :cognitohazard: :isaac-cry: 
Still the main prior, unsurprisingly.
I’m sure you know that but the fact ergot is pointed as the source of various weird goings on in history is highly unlikely - it’s almost certainly a myth. It doesn’t work in terms of dosage. Mind you I’m still personally convinced that whatever they did at the height of the Eleusinian Mysteries (which your article mentions) involved a strong psychedelic - it just wasn’t ergot.
If I was a tripping monk being interrogated, I would blame ergot “getting into the bread” too!
“I’m really sorry Cardinal, but we just weren’t careful with the Rye this year…”
:fedposting: