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Magic mushrooms, also known as psilocybin mushrooms or shrooms, are a special species of mushrooms containing hallucinogenic powers. Magic Mushrooms are being used for ages, mostly for spiritual purposes. Today, in the modern world, full of anti-drug laws, magic mushrooms still find their way to the consumers. What is it that makes magic mushrooms so special, and what are the dangers of taking them? You’ll find out, right now.

What are magic mushrooms?

“Magic mushrooms” are a a special kind of fungi containing the hallucinogenic compounds psilocybin and psilocin. It are psilocin and psilocybin that work on the brain and give you the wanted high.
Magic mushrooms grow in a special way explained in the picture on the right.
There are about 25 different kinds of psilocybin mushrooms, all with their own amount of psilocybin and psilocin, and so all with different hallucinogenic powers. It’s becoming a hype to go to the woods and go “mushroom hunting”. People just pick them from the ground and eat them. This is a very dangerous activity since many mushrooms look alike, but some are very poisonous and can kill you. It’s an absolute must to have a good book on the subject so you’re capable of separating the toxic ones from the non toxic.  Amazon sells a lot of books on magic mushroom hunting. It gives you the knowledge to separate over 2000 kinds of mushrooms and over 70 toxic ones that are mostly mistaken for psilocybin mushrooms.

If you don’t want to spend the money on a book you can read this brilliant magic mushrooms eBook: The pocket guide to mushrooms by Jean-Marie Polese. It’s a high quality book on determining mushrooms. It has beautiful color pictures. It’s worth the trouble!

History

Shrooms are being taken for centuries. Some even say for over a million years. But the first real evidence that was found, lay in Tassili n’Ajjer, a prehistoric mountain range in the Sahara Desert, Algeria, North Africa. There were  several rock paintings picturing these magical organisms. Those days they were ingested for their hallucinogenic powers, to create a pathway to the Gods and the afterlife, but also as a supplement to their diets.  They were easily found in the many grasslands. Remarkable is that the shrooms taken then, still are the same kinds we use in the present.
The Maya’s took them for the same reason. To get closer to the Gods. Maya’s were around from 10.000 BC until around 900 AD. They even built massive temples, like the one shown right here, in honor of the “mushroom god”. Mushroom sculptures and paintings were found inside of the temple, right beside pictures of the Mayan Gods.
But as Spanish arrived on the coasts of southern Mexico, hometown of the Maya’s, they quickly were forbidden. Spanish thought they were used to summon the devils. Since the Spanish wanted to covert local inhabitants of Mexico to their Christian believes, the psilocybin mushroom was strictly forbidden. Yet they never succeeded to destroy the culture of the Maya’s and so the consumption never really stopped.

Present

It was Albert Hofmann, a Swiss, born in Baden, who gave us the modern knowledge of shrooms.  Albert Hofmann discovered LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide), a semi synthetic hallucinogenic first used in psychiatry’s, in 1938. He worked for pharmaceutical-chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories. Later he became director of his department at Sandoz, and started studying hallucinogenic substances. He did research on the Mexican mushroom, seeds of Morning Glory and Salvia Divinorum. Together with his discovery of LSD Hofmann gave us today’s mostly used hallucinogenic drugs. If it weren’t for Hofmann and his studies, we would never have discovered the powers of shrooms today. Hofmann died in 2008, he was 102 years old. To read a full article on Hofmann’s work with LSD: click here. Read a full scientific study of Hofmann on Magic mushrooms.

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In this second part of my article I’ll be talking about the effects and dosage of magic mushrooms. Pay attention because it is very important to get it straight!

Effects

Shrooms give you, in low dosage, a lightheaded feeling. You’ll have the intention to giggle constantly. Shrooms will effect your short term memory, you’ll find it very hard to remember things.

At a medium to strong dosage colors and sound tend to be a lot brighter and sharper. Shapes will change. These doses might cause nausea and headaches.

A heavy dose of magic mushrooms could give you hallucinations. You can find trip reports of people seeing Buddha, God or Allah. People even thinking they can fly. It’s highly inappropriate for unexperienced users to take a heavy dose. Chances are you end up in a bad trip.
Bad trip: This is when you start seeing or imagining unpleasant things, or feel very stressed. The brain, not under influence of mushrooms, can easily nuance those thoughts and make them fade away. But once under influence the brain isn’t capable of buffering that negative thinking. It’s easy to get into a down worth spiral. You’ll end up freaking out and possibly having death visions. This is what we call a bad trip.

When taking magic  mushrooms you should always keep in mind that they only start to work after 90 minutes. So if you don’t feel anything working after 45 minutes or an hour, do not take any more! They will kick in, just be patient!
Effects normally last from 4 to 8 hours. The aftereffects like being lightheaded or nauseous could stay for another 12 hours.
(picture by Cactu)

Dosage

It’s stongly advised for anybody, doesn’t matter if your a heavy user or a first timer, to start with a small dose.
For a light trip:

• If your mushrooms are dried take 1 gram. This should be sufficient. If you feel like you want some more (AFTER 90 MINUTES) you could take another gram,  but chances are that you will have a medium strong trip. So maybe it’s smarter to add half a gram each time.

For a strong trip:

• If your heaving a light trip you can take another gram, up to 2 grams. Although it is advised not to start a strong trip if this is your first time taking magic  mushrooms.

For a heavy trip:

• You should take a maximum of 5,5 grams in total. If you take more you’ll get sick or get into a bad trip.

If your mushrooms aren’t dried, but fresh, just multiply your dosage with 10. So 10 grams of fresh mushrooms equals a light trip. To consume shrooms you can eat them raw, but it’s better not to because they have a very bad taste. You can chop them up and make tea out of them. To make the tea taste nice you can add some average Lipton tea. Another possibility is to include them with other food. Like baking an omelet with magic mushrooms. Or adding them with you roast in the oven. There are lots of possibilities, but the easiest method is making tea.

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Risks

In 2007 there was a heavy battle in the Netherlands between minister Klink and smartshopowners. Minister Klink wanted to make magic mushrooms completely illegal. Up to then dried muschrooms were illegal, but fresh ones weren’t. The reason for this bill was the death of a tourist. She jumped of a bridge under the influence of shrooms. Most likely she thought she could fly. Smartshopowners said they always warned buyers of the risks of magic mushrooms. That they always gave costumers the clear information not to eat mushrooms alone. You should always have a sitter with you (someone who stays sober the entire time you trip). The smartshopowners were right, they did provide this information to their costumers. But the problem those days was not only smartshops were selling mushrooms, about every tourist shop was.
So minister Klink wanted some research done by the CAM (Coordination Assessment and Monitoring new drugs). This was a giant investigation on the risk of magic mushrooms and their unstable character as hallucinogenics, Klink said. But the results were surprising.
CAM stated there was no risk for the individual’s health, nor for that of the society or public safety. There was no criminal activity concerning the magic mushrooms. CAM even stated that it wouldn’t be smart to make magic mushrooms illegal.
“Smartshops might replace the mushrooms for a more dangerous alternative.”
“Making mushrooms illegal will increase the amount of mushroom hunters, which will increase the cases of deaths by poisoning.”
“Consumers might take other hallucinogenic alternatives that are connected to criminal activeties and therefor creating more problems.”
“Passing this bill will cost a lot of money.”
Despite the results of the CAM, the bill passed and mushrooms got illegal in the Netherlands. Opposites of minister Klink say the deaths of tourists on mushrooms have stopped, but they might as well have increased somewhere else we don’t know about.
So what I want to make clear: a national investigation on the risks of magic mushrooms stated that there were no concerning risks. Mushrooms do not effect the brain on long term bases. . There are no forms of physical or mental dependence. The one thing you do need to keep in mind is the possibility of you having a bad trip, freaking out and becoming paranoid. So only take mushrooms in surroundings where you feel good. Never take them when your alone, or you might end up like one of the tourists from the Netherlands.
It is a fact that magic mushrooms enhance the emotional status of someone when taken. So if your planning to take magic mushrooms make sure your not worrying about anything, you don’t feel stressed or unhappy.Researches et John Hopkins even said magic mushrooms can be good for your long term health (watch video below).
If you wish to read the report of the CAM on magic mushrooms you free to do so right here (written in Dutch).
The CAM report states that 1 or 2 on 100.000 people who consume magic mushrooms get hospitalized. Most of the people calling for an ambulance do so because of nausea or strong panic attacks (it typically fades away).  Most of the called ambulances did not need to transport the patient to the hospital, observation was sufficient. When people do get hospitalized most of the time it is because of combining the magic mushrooms with other drugs, which leads to heavy hallucinations and the possibility of you hurting yourself.
Under no circumstances, what ever those might be, combine consumption of alcohol with magic mushrooms!

Growing your own

Growing your own magic mushrooms is very easy! Just follow this step by step guide. You can buy everything you needin your supermarket, accept for the the spores of course. You can get your spores for 1,00 € or 2,00 $. The guys from Free Spore Ring Europe are willing to give you any kind of spores for just that price. Click here to visit their site with all the information you need.
Down below are 4 video’s with step by step explanation on how to grow your own mushrooms.

If you don’t know how to grow your own magic mushrooms, turn to www.mushroomvideos.com. They are best at what they do. Their website contains all the information you need to become a pro at growing your own mushrooms. Be sure to check out their site if you have any questions!
I took a 4 part video guide from their website, watch and learn.

Part I

In this first part they explain to you how to prepare your substrateand how to sterilize your substrate jars to grow your shrooms from later.

Ingridients needed:

• 1 part brown rice flour (240 ml)
• 1 part water (240 ml)
• 2 parts vermiculite (480 ml)

Part II

This second part explains to you how you inject your spores into your jars. You can also see how you make your own glovebox.

Part III

The third part shows you how to build your  own fruiting chamber and how to prepare your colonized jars for fruiting.

Part IV

This last video shows you the beautiful results of your hard work: your own magic mushrooms!

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Law

Any country part of the United Nations has magic mushrooms in their opium law. This makes the buying, consuming, growing or possession of magic mushrooms illegal. If you get arrested for any of the above named, chances are you’ll get to go to court and serve prison time for it.

Statement from the writer

I, Toon Van Kets, writer of this article do not want to encourage people into consuming magic mushrooms. I strongly want to stress the fact that magic mushrooms ARE illegal. I do not wish to be associated with mushroom consumption, I only wish to provide people with the knowledge I got from doing research. I have never taken magic mushrooms or any alternative, and do not wish to do so. If there should be provided wrong information in this article you are free to contact me (contact information is given on contact page) and I will change anything that is proven wrong.

Books

Mushrooms Demystified-David Arora

Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide

Hofmann’s Elixir: LSD and the New Eleusis

LSD: My Problem Child

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