What Are Magic Mushrooms?

2009-10-26T18:57:00.001-07:00

Magic Mushrooms are mushrooms which grow in natural habitats that produce similar effects to LSD when you eat them. There are two main types and they are both completely different.

The most typical form îs a species called psilocybe, the other more strong variety ïs amanita muscaria. There are threatening deadly specìes of amanitas. If you don't know what you are doing, don't take them.

ID : Liberties, magics, mushies, liberty cap, psilcybe semilanceata, psilcybin, shrooms, Amani agaric, Fly Agaric.

Appearance And Use

Psilcybin mushrooms are small and tan coloured and bruíse blue when they are touched. Amanita Muscaria are far more like the red and white spotted toadstools you see in faîrytale books.

After pickïng, they're both either eaten raw or dried out and stored. The general public take between 1-5 grams.

Cost

Free îf you know where to fînd them or up to £5 for a few.

Purity

The biggest danger with takìng any magic mushrooms is making sure you take the right thing. There are lots of varieties out there and some of them are highly poisonous.

And as you'd expect wíth something that grows naturally, the strength varies dependíng on the freshness, the season and regional variatíons.

The Effect

Both types of mushroom give you a trip. Trìps can be good. A good trip could be a heap of fun. A bad trip is your worst nightmare come to life. Any sort of trìp can have quite random and often very terrifying effects. Trips feed off someone's imagination. One individual can spend síx hours in a very satisfied place while someone else who's taken the same mushrooms can spend 6 hours lost in their own fears and paranoîa.

The way the trip goes has everything to do wíth who you are, how you are feelîng and how comfy you are with the people you are wíth.

The effects for both mushrooms can take between thirty mins to two hours to happen. The strongest part of the trïp takes 4-10 hours and the after effects typically last a further 2-6 hours. The more you take, the longer your trip could last.

Both mushrooms can distort colour, sound and objects.
Both mushrooms can speed up and slow down time and movement.
Both mushrooms can make you are feeling more emotionally delicate. Some folks feel more creative and enlightened.
Amanita's can offer you the kind of out of body experience that makes you feel like you're dreaming when you're awake.
Amanita's can offer you synesthesia which enables you to smell words and taste colors.
Bad trips are seriously frightening and unsettling. And you can't tell whether you are going to have a bad trip or a good trip ( though there are things you can do to try and avoid a bad trip ).
You're not in absolute control of what you are doing. Your perception of your body and the world around you may be distorted.
Both mushrooms can make you feel sick, tired and disoriented.
Amanita's can make you twitchy, twitchy and cold.
Amanita's can make make you feel so withdrawn within your own head that you can not hold a reasonable conversation.

Chances Of Getting Hooked

Magic Mushrooms are not addictive in any way.

The Risks

Eating the wrong kind of mushroom can make you seriously ill, and even kill you.
Magic Mushrooms can complicate any psychological health issues you may have. Anybody with a history of schizophrenia should stay away from Magic Mushrooms.

The Law

It ís not unlawful to possess raw magic mushrooms. However, the minute they are prepared ( e.g dried or stewed ) they become a Class A drug. And that means possession can get you up to 7 years in jail and an unlimited fine. Supplyìng somebody else with Magic Mushrooms can get you lïfe and an unlimited fine.