The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house-martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter; yet these are not strangers to our land.
ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT COCONUTS MIGRATE?
Depends on if it’s being carried by an African or European swallow.
The seeds are carried by birds and can survive in a dormant state for years.
Lots of stuff like trees washed away by rivers end up floating in the ocean.
But it’s also perfectly feasible that a limited trade happened far in the past.
Polynesians showed that you can reliably cross even the pacific on boats made using stone tools and fire.Limited trade… There were full on global trade networks through most of human history. Ironically, not as much across the Atlantic, because civilization in the Americas was centered on the West coast
But you find all sorts of stuff turning up everywhere. Not much of it, and most of it is lost to history, but enough to establish that global trade networks were the norm and not the exception
Humans before the Ice Age were fishing for tuna in the deep sea and were coastal hopping everywhere there are coasts to hop.
Most of human history:
I was going to research this myself, but then I got high.
I was gonna write my final report, but then I got high…
And now I’m shitposting on Lemmy and I know why, yeah-heah…
why man?
Graduate students famously never make mistakes (like including their own hair in samples) and also never smoke weed. So that couldn’t be it.
They especially don’t smoke weed. No sir!
I walk past this plant all the time and I’m super tempted. I did salvia so I feel like the effects shouldn’t freak me out. Rn I just kill them with gloves. We get also get Ricinus, that’s not as tempting.
To give an honest answer, it’s so fucking invasive I wouldn’t be surprised if actually managed to survive a trip across the Atlantic or the pacific.
The question is how? I don’t think we’ll know until we find the “vessel” that carried it.
i’ve not done datura myself but by all accounts it’s much more like benadryl than salvia, to the point that benedryl is described as being “like datura junior”. you should check out some of these trip reports and think long and hard about if that experience is worth the risks to you.
I also did salvia but I wouldn’t touch datura with a 10 ft pole.
Don’t, every trip report is horrifying, there are better ways to get high, that are also safer.
On top of being a bad experience datura doses are very hard to get right, you are very likely to overdose and die. And like I said, If you don’t die, you will get a traumatic experience that can possibly fuck your mental health for decades.
Alternative drugs exist if you want to get high. Please check trip reports and harm reduction sources before trying anything.
Like salvia but worse. And every salvia story is awful.
Wouldn’t there be other possible plants that would provide the same alkaloid compounds?
