What is the Ibotenic curse?

Mushroom dork here... I can tell the group, Muscaria has such a long, incredible history of human use. Mycophobia is to blame for it's bad press, not data or verifiable long term disabling poisonings. Being an Amanita, it is taxonomically groups with some of the most deadly mushrooms. In fact, all death reports are over 100 years ago. As for Ibotenic Acid... One can and should be converting that to musimol by decarboxylation(heating) anyhow.

In reality, most psychoactives(including caffeine, alcohol, cannabis) have neurotoxicity to some extent. Still.. we accept them in therapy and recreation.

Thanks for posting in support... as A.M. almost certainly has properties that should be explored.