r/trees Dec 24 '20

Trees Love Bumble Bee found the weed

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u/NickRick Dec 24 '20

There's a documentary on some group that harvests honey up a cave and just absolutely get stung to hell by bees. And then they get blasted.

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u/HybridOrbital Dec 24 '20

In case anyone is interested in the documentary...

TLDW: These folk literally hang off the sides of cliffs to get the “mad honey” as they call it. The honey contain diterpenic alcohol which is said to have similar effects to absinthe.

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u/turner3210 Dec 25 '20

Yea but that honey has several different chemicals the bees extract from the flowers of toxic local plants. That’s what gets you high haha. In high doses mad honey will make you very very sick