Mushrooms and Other Indole Trips

Puffballs of the genus Lycoperdon are also hallucinogenic, and activity has been claimed for Boletus satana, which occnrs in the southeastern U.S. 

In THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN, Don Juan seems to have taught Carlos to smoke the mushrooms, which might provide a 

Puffballs seem to usually produce only auditory hallueinations. L. marginatum found over much of Europe and America is active (1 or 2 eonstitutes a dose). 

New Guinea mushroom madness is apparently due to speeies of Boletus, Russula and Heimiella. See R. Heim NOUVELvES INVESTIGATIONS SUR LES CHAMPIGNONS HALLUCIN-OGENES (1967). Also see FIELD GUIDE TO THE PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOM (available from P.O. Box 15667, New Orleans, LA 70175). 

Compounds with a low relative aetivity (e.g., DMT, DET, 5 methoxy-DMT) have very little aetivity orally and must be smoked or sniffed. Unfortunately, these eompounds taste and smell like burning plastic when smoked and are harder to smoke than hash. There is, however, no evidenee for the notion that they are damaging. With the exception of DMT, DET, psilocin and psilocybin, most of these compounds are probably legal in most states. 

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