Recognizing Shrooms

Mushrooms that contain the psilocybin look like dried mushrooms with slender and long stems which are dark brown and whitish gray caps in the center. Dried mushrooms are rusty brown with isolated areas of off-white.

Magic mushrooms canada are mixed with food, eaten with food, or can be brewed like tea in drinking. Cannabis and tobacco are also mixed and smoked. Liquid psilocybin is also available which is a naturally occurring psychedelic drug that is found in liberty caps. The liquid is coming in a small vial and is clear brown.

Approved Uses of magic mushrooms

Magic mushrooms have been used for several thousand years for both medicinal and spiritual uses among many people in Europe and America.

Researchers from John Hopkin University in 2018 have recommended the reclassification of this drug from Schedule I to Schedule IV to use them in medical treatment. There are studies which are suggesting that psilocybin is used in treating cancer-related depression, psychiatric distress, nicotine addiction, anxiety, and substance disorders.

In 2019, Denver has decriminalized the magic mushrooms. Then after Oakland has done the same months later. This does not mean that shrooms are legal but the city is not permitting any criminal penalties on people who are possessing the drug.

Side Effects

All the hallucinogens have carried the risk of triggering the emotional and mental problems which can cause accidents under this influence. Among adolescents, magic mushrooms are frequently taken in combination with drugs and alcohol increases the physical and psychological risks.

The amount of psilocin and psilocybin contained in the magic mushroom is unknown. Magic mushrooms are varying greatly in the amount of psychoactive content. This also means that it is very hard to tell the intensity, length, and type of trip someone would experience.

When someone will consume the magic shrooms then it will result in a trip and the user will feel drowsy and relaxed from the frightening experience, this will mark with delusions, hallucinations, and panic. In the worst case, magic shrooms can also cause convulsions.

Physical effects

  • Drowsiness
  • Headaches
  • Dilated pupils
  • Lack of coordination
  • Increased heart rate, temperature, and blood pressure
  • Nausea
  • Muscle weakness
  • Yawning

Mental Effects

  • Euphoria
  • Panic reactions
  • Distorted sense of place, time, and reality
  • Auditory and Visual Hallucinations
  • Spiritual introspective experiences
  • Psychosis
  • Paranoia
  • Nervousness

More research is required for testing long-term and long lasting side effects of magic shrooms. Users have reported long-term changes in personality when taking magic shrooms for a long time.