Magic Mushrooms, as they are known, are naturally occurring Fungi which usually are consumed raw or dried and ground up and drank in tea or coffee, and produce hallucinogenic effects. There are numerous, many different kinds and varieties of magic mushrooms with varying strengths. Simply the mushrooms release the imagination to internal or external influences and allow it to run without bounds, perhaps the ‘trip’ be pleasurable or a nightmarish experience is practically uncontrollable. It generally takes no more than one hour for the trip to engage, and can last around 6 hours. It is like a less intense alternative to the much more dangerous semi-synthetic hallucinogen LSD.

Whilst the long run ramifications of taking magic mushrooms regularly are somewhat unknown, the largest problem is their natural availability (they grow in wild grazing fields in or about cow and horse feces). Mushroom chocolate This can be somewhat of an irresistible lure to the thrill seeking mushroom users who’ll venture out and collect them by themselves thinking every mushroom is consumable. However, not most of these fungi are the specified ones and it can be very difficult to distinguish ones which are or aren’t toxic. Some of those mushrooms are highly poisonous and can kill in an exceedingly slow and painful way, for example fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. Some even have a delayed reaction taking days to exhibit any signs or symptoms before taking your lifetime with simply no antidote.

Because Magic Mushrooms are naturally occurring and not ‘processed’ in any way before consumption, they are somewhat naively considered a safe drug. Zero drug is safe, and most drugs are naturally occurring or refined from natural plants or fungi anyway. Having said that, they aren’t known as an addictive or heavy drug, nor are they as violent or psychologically damaging as LSD, nor are they socially corroding such as crack or heroin. With regards to the mushroom-users mental predisposition however, mushrooms can have a damaging impact on the user. As an example, if an individual is vulnerable to having a vulnerable mental state or is of a very suggestible nature, they may believe their hallucinations to function as manifestation of something true and become somewhat obsessed with it and damaged by it.

One documented case of those extremities involved a son who began taking mushrooms and started getting the recurring hallucination of a flower dressed up as a court-jester which repeatedly taunted him with scarring insults. As preposterous because it sounds, without discounting these experiences merely as hallucinations, he believed this abusive-flower to function as manifestation of truths about himself and spiralled into a serious depression. He and his friends admitted he was absolutely fine before taking mushrooms, but somewhere through the course a can of worms was opened for him. Sadly, to this day he still struggles with emotional and mental issues which simply weren’t there ahead of the advent of his life-changing hallucinations. It would be impossible to state for certain in such a case if the mushrooms were accountable for triggering such continuing mental problems, or an underlying mental illness was already present and the mushroom use was inconsequential, however it is always worth bearing in mind.