Psilocybin mushrooms

New Guinea "mushroom madness" is apparently due to species 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). 

Peden NR, Pringle SD, Crooks J. (1982). The problem of psilocybin mushroom abuse. Hum Toxicol. 1(4) 417-24. 

Ayahuasca is one entheogen of particular interest to spiritual explorers. The term entheogen comes from theo, or god/spirit, and gen (create). Thus, entheogens are substances that generate experiences of transcendence and God. Peyote or psilocybin mushrooms are traditional examples of entheogens, and often taken for the purpose of having a mystical experience. 

Psilocybin mushrooms are chewed or used to make a tea, or ground into powder. The effects begin approximately 30... 

PSILOCYBE A genus of mushroom which produces the bitter-tasting indole alkaloid psilocybin that causes hallucinations and other side effects. Sometimes Psilocybe mushrooms are referred to as psilocybin mushrooms. 

Maybe or maybe not. Studies done in California, where over 300 street samples of psilocybin mushrooms were bought and analyzed revealed that 85% of the mushrooms were not Psilocybe (the species that produces psilocybin). Instead, the majority were grocery store mushrooms injected with LSD, PCP, or both. It should be noted that LSD is 100 times as potent as psilocybin and has much more intense, long-lasting, and serious effects. LSD and PCP are both manmade. 

Abuse of the psilocybin mushroom continued and clinical studies were finding little evidence that psilocybin mushrooms have medical uses. This trend of increasing recreational use of psilocybin was similar to the pattern of drug use in America. In 1962, fewer than 2% of the United States population had tried an illicit drug. By 1979, 65% of high school seniors and 70% of young adults had tried an illicit drug. 

Access to Psilocybe mushrooms is increasing. They grow naturally in the Gulf States and the Pacific Northwest. In other areas across the United States, the mushrooms are cultivated in laboratories or in homes with kits purchased over the Internet. Psilocybin mushrooms in the United States often sell for 2CM0 per one-eighth ounce. 

According to the NHSDA, 18-25 year olds are the fastest growing group of psilocybin mushroom consumers. In one year, from 1997 to 1998, the number of lifetime users (the number of people who have ever used psilocybin in their lifetime) jumped up 38%. The younger age group of 12-17-year-olds remained the stable at 2.6% of the population. The age group of 26-34... 

Some Psilocybe mushroom eaters, in an effort to avoid LSD and PCP tainted varieties sold on the street, try to pick their own mushrooms. In theory, this should be easy to do. Psilocybe (species containing psilocybin) mushrooms grow naturally around the world and in the United States particularly in the Pacific Northwest and southeastern states. Mushroom hunters often seek out cow pastures, riverbanks, pine forests, and wood chips in search of over 90 known species of Psilocybe mushrooms. The problem, though, is that it is very difficult to tell the difference between Psilocybe and other poisonous mushrooms. Psilocybe and poisonous look-alikes can grow side by side. 

When unsuspecting individuals accidentally ingest psilocybin mushrooms, it is common for them to conclude that they are going insane because of the hallucinations and psychosis that occurs. 

In a 2000 study which examined 161 acute psilocybin mushrooms exposures reported to the Swiss Toxicological Information Center (STIC), researchers noted that severe complications from psilocybin use were most likely to occur when it was combined with other drugs such as opioids, alcohol, or LSD. Some of the severe complications listed in the study were coma and convulsions. 

The Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico have used hallucinogenic plants for hundreds of years. Peyote (peyotl), psilocybin mushrooms (teonanactl), morning glory seeds (ololiuqui), and Salvia divinorum (hierba Maria, ska Maria Pastora) have been used in religious ceremonies of divination and healing. 

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LSD is one of many mind drugs that are known as hallucinogens. Also known as psychedelics, these drugs distort perception, cause spaciness and mild euphoria, and produce other unpredictable effects. In addition to LSD, the most common hallucinogens are marijuana, MDMA (ecstasy, rave), PCP, peyote (mescaline), and psilocybin mushrooms (schrooms). -... 

A new era in hunting mushrooms opened after publication of Leonard Enos A Key to the American Psilocybin Mushroom (1970). This small book described fifteen species in sixty pages, providing a water-color picture of each. Enos had had personal experience with only two of the species that he treated, and thus his renderings of the mushrooms appearances were inaccurate and sometimes fanciful. (In two cases, species known by two Latin binomials were drawn to look like different kinds of mushrooms.) He also provided a section on cultivation, which was overcomplicated and which no one seems to have used. Nonetheless, Enos book stimulated much American fieldwork that resulted in several reliable guides by the end of the decade. 

Since the late 1970s this situation has changed. In the first place, psilocybin mushrooms have been found in great numbers in many parts of the world.,One of the principal species, called Psilocybe cubensis, is a large mushroom that grows in cow pastures in warm climates. It occurs in Southeast Asia, in Central... 

Do not attempt to pick wild psilocybin mushrooms without knowing what you are doing. 

Cultivated psilocybin mushrooms vary greatly in potency. Get advice about dose before eating any. 

Gartz s Magic Mushrooms Around the World (1996) and in Paul Stamets s Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World (1996). Both of the latter two books are illustrated with full-color photographs, an essential feature for safe identification of mushrooms in the wild. None of the psilocybin-containing species of mushrooms outside of Mexico are known to have been associated with shamanic healing practices. 

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