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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Accidentally Ate Magic Mushrooms While on Business In China: 'I Was Not Aware'
https://www.marketbeat.com/articles/us-treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-accidentally-ate-magic-mushrooms-while-on-business-in-china-i-was-not-aware-2023-08-16/?utm_source=earlybirdnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletterclick&AccountID=5595649&h ^

Posted on 08/17/2023 7:31:31 AM PDT by Brilliant

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen accidentally eating magic mushrooms in China was not on anyone's 2023 bingo card.

Last month, while discussing diplomacy overseas, Yellen dined at a restaurant during a visit to Beijing called Yi Zuo Yi (In and Out), a chain known for a Yunnan dish containing mushrooms called jian shou qing which means "see hand blue" in a rough translation.

However, Lanmaoa asiatica mushrooms (the mushrooms that are used in the dish) are not your average fungi — they're known to have hallucinogen properties and turn blue when pressure is applied to them.

Yellen didn't know this before consuming her dish, she told CNN, noting that she also did not order for the group nor have a clear understanding of what she was consuming.

"There was a delicious mushroom dish. I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties. I learned that later," she said. "All of us enjoyed the mushrooms, the restaurant, and none of us felt any ill effects from having eaten them…"

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TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: magicmushroom; magicmushrooms; shrooms
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Accident?

“I was not aware”

We were Janet.

1 posted on 08/17/2023 7:31:31 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

“none of us felt any ill effects from having eaten them…”

Because when you cook hallucinogenic mushrooms, you also destroy most of the hallucinogenic properties.


2 posted on 08/17/2023 7:34:09 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Brilliant

Judging from her job performance, I assumed she was eating psilocybin shrooms already.


3 posted on 08/17/2023 7:35:29 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Brilliant

I’m fine with it. It might do her good.


4 posted on 08/17/2023 7:35:52 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (ESG is a hunting license on Republicans.)
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To: Brilliant

Well, that explains a lot!


5 posted on 08/17/2023 7:36:52 AM PDT by FMBass (Que sais Je)
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To: hardspunned; All

And has been for years!

Remember she is a proponent of MMT - Modern Monetary Theory, a magic mushroom inspired economic theory if there ever was one!


6 posted on 08/17/2023 7:40:23 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Brilliant

Her trip along with the bowing and the shrooms is reminiscent to Madeline Albrite’s trip to North Korea in the 90s. The Dems seem so have an inexhaustible supply of blithering idiot women.


7 posted on 08/17/2023 7:43:26 AM PDT by ga1948
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To: Boogieman
Because when you cook hallucinogenic mushrooms, you also destroy most of the hallucinogenic properties.

Not so.

One can smoke from a pipe "cooked" psilocybin. Probably get more high than ingesting raw.

8 posted on 08/17/2023 7:44:06 AM PDT by C210N
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To: JusPasenThru

9 posted on 08/17/2023 7:44:53 AM PDT by C210N
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To: Brilliant

Was watching a Cirque du Soleil show, this guy blurted out “Gee I wish I had some mushrooms”


10 posted on 08/17/2023 7:46:05 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Brilliant

she never recovered


11 posted on 08/17/2023 7:46:55 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: C210N

LOL!


12 posted on 08/17/2023 7:47:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Welcome to Amerika! Have you filed a lawsuit today?)
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To: ga1948

My favorite Madame Halfbright’s trip was when she attended some summit in Europe and everyone in the hotel mistook her for the maid. LOL.


13 posted on 08/17/2023 7:49:32 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Welcome to Amerika! Have you filed a lawsuit today?)
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To: C210N

“One can smoke from a pipe “cooked” psilocybin. Probably get more high than ingesting raw.”

It’s not really the heat alone that lessens the psychedelic properties, because those mainly come from the spores, which are quite resistant to heat. It’s the fact that when cooking a culinary dish, you almost always are using water and/or oil, both of which, in combination with heat, can effectively neutralize the spores.

Just roasting them alone, or smoking them in a pipe, wouldn’t have the same effect.


14 posted on 08/17/2023 7:50:14 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Brilliant

I accidentally got drunk and smoked pot in high school often.


15 posted on 08/17/2023 7:52:02 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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I accidentally got drunk and smoked pot in high school often.

You need to straighten yourself out, like I did, I quit drinking altogether, every week.

16 posted on 08/17/2023 7:54:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Brilliant

The old “accidentally-on-purpose” excuse.


17 posted on 08/17/2023 7:58:23 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Well.... accidents do happen. And, when they do, it CAN be often :-)


18 posted on 08/17/2023 8:00:44 AM PDT by C210N
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To: Boogieman

Interesting, thanks for that info... I greatly look forward to testing it!


19 posted on 08/17/2023 8:01:44 AM PDT by C210N
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To: Brilliant

Some make you small...

Some make you tall...

Go ask Alice...

20 posted on 08/17/2023 8:06:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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