Taking magic mushrooms correctly is more than just popping them in your mouth.
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Eating hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms (also known as “shrooms” or, if you’re from 1968, “magic mushrooms”) can open your consciousness to the limitless wonders of the universe, make your Sunday afternoon extra colorful, or send you sliding into a despair deeper than you ever knew existed.
The difference between a good mushroom experience and a bad mushroom experience can come down to knowing what you’re doing and taking a little time to prepare. (To be clear, I’m not talking micro-dosing here; this advice is strictly for macro-doses.) What are shrooms?
“Shrooms” is short for “mushrooms,” and is slang long used to describe those varieties of the fungus that contain Psilocybin, a psychoactive chemical that can produce euphoria, hallucinations, and laughing a lot. Psilocybin can also cause panic attacks, visions of hellfire, and nausea.
There’s a belief among many in the “psychedelic world” that mushrooms are not a party drug. To these folks, trips should be about personal growth or deeply religious experiences—serious business. While I hate this kind of self-righteous gatekeeping (mushrooms can too be a party drug), there’s a germ of truth to the idea, and a reason shrooms are so often used in mental health counseling. Mushroom trips are generally not escapist, and the drug might not make you feel good or confident. There are other drugs for that. Are magic mushrooms legal?
Unless you live in certain cities that have legalized them, buying, selling, and consuming some varieties mushrooms is likely illegal in your area, and you should respect The State’s decisions about the kinds of things you’re allowed to do in your own home for your own reasons.
That said, you might not particularly care if they are legal, since you’re probably not going to get caught, provided you take them under safe, controlled conditions. Seriously: Don’t take mushrooms if you don’t know what you’re doing. Start small and eat a little at a time. You can always take more later, but once you eat them, you can’t take […]
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