Is it true that eating the tequila worm will make you hallucinate?!
Answers: No, it will not. Further, the worm is unique to mezcals, and not found in tequila by law. Mezcals however, may be sold "con gusano" which means literally "with worm". All tequila is mezcal, but not all mezcal is tequila; think sparkling wine/champagne, brandy/cognac and whiskey/bourbon. Both are agave-based liquors but tequila must be grown and distilled within specific areas within the state of Jalisco in Mexico, around the town of Tequila. Tequila must contain at least 51% "Agave tequilana Weber azul", the best are 100%. The confusion comes from a few places. In the Jalisco region the indigenous people call the plants used in the production of tequila, mezcal. Then there is the association with the cactus Mescal (note the "S") from which the hallucinogen Mescaline is extracted. The agave plant is not a cactus.
maybe is possible..
no.
probably not! Although I'd imagine the possibility exists. (every bodies body is different)....Try it and find out?!
nope
Could be. I would never try it. But some years when we cam back from Mazatlan we brought back a bottle of Mescal. My step son and I were setting around drinking it and eating KFC. We got down to the worm and neither of us was going to eat it. There was a cat hanging around the place and came in the back door. My stepson dipped the worm in the leftover gravy and offered it to the cat, guessing it would lick off the gravy. The grabbed it and took like it was possed. So maybe so.
There actually isn't a worm in any tequila.
By law in Mexico, it's not allowed.
What you're referring to is Mezcal, an entirely different type of alcohol, which happens to also be distilled from agave cactus like tequila.
The worm, too, is not really a worm, it's a larva, and usually only put into cheap gimicky bottles of Mezcal so drunk US college kids can claim they "ate the worm".
Personally, I wouldn't touch cheap Mezcal or a worm with a 10' pole!
And you can't really get drunk or hallucinate just from eating the larva; think about it. It's pretty small, and even if it's completely soaked up in alcohol, that's less than a tablespoon of liquor. If you get nasty after-affects from it, it probably has more to do with the fact that you ate a bug.