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Mad Honey
This hallucinogenic honey can sell for over $60 a pound on the black market.
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When bees feed on the pollen of rhododendron flowers, the resulting honey can pack a hallucinogenic punch.
It's called mad honey, and it has a slightly bitter taste and a reddish color. More notably, a few types of rhododendrons, among them Rhododendron luteum and Rhododendron ponticum, contain grayanotoxin, which can cause dramatic physiological reactions in humans and animals. Depending on how much a person consumes, reactions can range from hallucinations and a slower heartbeat to temporary paralysis and unconsciousness...
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