Home | Crane.tv Contemporary Culture Video Magazine. Interior Semiotics. Trailer. Hamilton and the Philosopher's Stone | Hamilton's Pharmacopeia. A large pile of freshly cleaned Psilocybe atlantis. In the bucolic pastures of Hazerswoude-Dorp, nestled in verdant fields of ruminating Holsteins, lazy windmills, and pert tulips, lies a quaint Dutch farm that functions as the world’s largest psilocybin-containing-truffle factory. To be clear, the truffles this farm produces, often called philosopher’s stones, are not technically truffles (or stones) but rather a distinct fungal propagule that serves a separate biological function from that of a mushroom.
The mushroom constitutes the reproductive body, or “fruit,” of the fungus from which spores are dispersed; upon germination these spores combine to form a fluffy network of threads called mycelium. If the conditions are not correct for the mycelium to organize itself into mushrooms, certain species will form tangled clumps of mycelial tissue called sclerotia. VICE: Who are you, and what is your business? Ali: My name is Ali. Next to me is my brother, Murat. Squatters. Whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir Preview. Mind Control Cults.