Magic Mushrooms, since they are known, are naturally occurring Fungi which are usually consumed raw or dried and ground up and drank in tea or coffee, and produce hallucinogenic effects. There are many, many different types and varieties of magic mushrooms with varying strengths. Simply the mushrooms free up the imagination to internal or external influences and allow it to run without bounds, perhaps the ‘trip’ be pleasurable or even a nightmarish experience is nearly uncontrollable. It generally takes no longer than an hour for the trip to engage, and can last as much as 6 hours. It’s just like a less intense option to the far more dangerous semi-synthetic hallucinogen LSD.
Whilst the long term effects of taking magic mushrooms regularly are somewhat unknown, the biggest problem is their natural availability (they grow in wild grazing fields in or just around cow and horse feces). Mushroom chocolate This is somewhat of an irresistible lure to the thrill seeking mushroom users who’ll go out and collect them by themselves thinking every mushroom is consumable. However, not all of these fungi are the desired ones and it can be extremely difficult to distinguish ones which are or aren’t toxic. Many of these mushrooms are highly poisonous and can kill in a very slow and painful way, like fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. Some have a delayed reaction taking days to show any signs or symptoms before taking your lifetime with absolutely no antidote.
Because Magic Mushrooms are naturally occurring and not ‘processed’ at all before consumption, they’re somewhat naively considered a secure 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 referred to as an addictive or heavy drug, nor are they as violent or psychologically damaging as LSD, nor are they socially corroding such as for instance crack or heroin. With respect to the mushroom-users mental predisposition however, mushrooms can have a damaging effect on the user. For instance, if the consumer is susceptible to having a vulnerable mental state or is of a really suggestible nature, they could believe their hallucinations to be the manifestation of something true and become somewhat involved with it and damaged by it.
One particular documented case of those extremities involved a son who began taking mushrooms and started obtaining the recurring hallucination of a rose clothed 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 be the 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 throughout the course a can of worms was opened for him. Sadly, even today he still struggles with emotional and mental issues which simply weren’t there prior to the advent of his life-changing hallucinations. It will be impossible to express for several in such a case if the mushrooms were responsible for triggering such continuing mental problems, or an underlying mental illness had been present and the mushroom use was inconsequential, nonetheless it is definitely worth bearing in mind.
