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Magic Mushrooms - Overview
What Are Magic Mushrooms?
There are around twelve different varieties of magic
mushrooms that grow wild throughout the UK in autumn,
and they have a powerful hallucinogenic effect similar
to LSD.
The main type of mushroom used is called liberty cap
psilocybe. The other more potent variety is the amanita
muscaria this bears close resemblance to deadly poisonous
fungi. Magic mushrooms contain the psychedelic chemical
psilocybin.
Magic mushrooms can be eaten raw or they can be cooked
or stewed into a tea and drunk; they can also be dried
and then stored.
Magic Mushroom Street Names
Liberties, Magics, Mushies, Liberty Cap, Psilcybe Semilanceata,
Psilcybin, Shrooms, Amani Agaric, Fly Agaric
Appearance and Use of Magic Mushrooms
Once the trip has started there is no way to control
or stop it, and a bad trip can be unpredictable, with
users experiencing feelings of paranoia and being out
of control. Users sometimes experience severe stomach
pains, as well as diarrhea and sickness. Too often,
magic mushrooms can be confused with other poisonous,
sometimes deadly fungi, so if users experience illness,
they should get to hospital as soon as possible with
a sample of the fungi. Users do not become physically
addicted and there are no withdrawal symptoms.
Psilcybin mushrooms are small and tan colored
and bruise blue when they're touched. Amanita Muscaria
are more like the red and white spotted toadstools you
see in fairytale books. After picking, they're both
either eaten raw or dried out and stored. Most people
take between 1-5 grams.
Magic Mushroom's Effects
Both types of mushroom give you a trip. Trips can be
good or bad. A good trip can be a lot of fun. A bad
trip is your worst nightmare come to life. Any sort
of trip can have quite random and sometimes very frightening
effects. Trips feed off a person's imagination. One
person can spend six hours in a very happy place while
someone else who's taken the same mushrooms can spend
six hours lost in their own fears and paranoia.
How the trip goes has everything to do with who you
are, how you're feeling and how comfortable you are
with the people you are with. The effects for both mushrooms
can take between 30 minutes to two hours to happen.
The strongest part of the trip takes 4-10 hours and
the after-effects usually last a further 2-6 hours.
The more you take, the longer your trip could last.
- Both mushrooms can distort color, sound and objects.
- Both mushrooms can speed up and slow down time and
movement.
- Both mushrooms can make you feel more emotionally
sensitive. Some people feel more creative and enlightened.
- Amanita's can give you the sort of out of body experience
that makes you feel like you're dreaming when you're
awake.
- Amanita's can give you snatches which allows you
to smell words and taste color.
- Bad trips are seriously frightening and unsettling.
And you can't tell whether you're going to have a bad
trip or a good trip (although there are things you can
do to try and avoid a bad trip).
- You're not in complete control of what you're doing.
Your perception of your body and the world around you
can be distorted.
- Both mushrooms can make you feel sick, tired and
disoriented.
- Amanita's can make you nervous, twitchy and cold.
- Amanita's can make make you feel so withdrawn inside
your own head that you can't hold a sensible conversation.
What Does the Law Say about Magic
Mushrooms?
On the 18 July 2005 the Drugs Act 2005 came into force.
The new law means that raw magic mushrooms, as well
as those that are dried or prepared, are now classified
as Class A drugs. Possession of magic mushrooms
could lead to up to seven years in jail and an unlimited
fine. Supplying someone else with magic mushrooms
could get you life imprisonment and an unlimited fine.
It is illegal to import, export, produce, supply, possess
or possess with intent to supply magic mushrooms, in
any form. It is also illegal to supply growing kits.
In the past only dried and prepared magic mushrooms
were illegal because they contained high levels or the
Class A chemical psilocybin. Now raw mushrooms
that contain psilocybin are also illegal. This
law has come in to halt the sale of raw magic mushrooms
by commercial vendors .Special exceptions will be made
for magic mushrooms growing unattended on private land
or for those members of the public who may have picked
magic mushrooms unknowingly. This law does not apply
to fly agaric mushrooms as they do not contain psilocybin.
Reference: NIDA
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Magic mushrooms have caused many deaths
to its users simply because of what they do while they
are under the influence. It distorts the mind to the
point that unreal becomes real and dangerous become
safe. We all heard the stories of spring breakers falling
from their hotel balconies and drowning while under
the influence of Magic Mushrooms. Cove Center for Recovery
- Addiction Treatment Centers understands that Magic
Mushroom is not an addictive drug, but a behavior problem
that needs to be addressed before it can claim the life
of the user.
Cove Center for Recovery offers a premier addiction
treatment program that can help you or your
loved one. Our aim is to treat the whole person, and
not just an isolated symptom. During the addiction
treatment process we will work with the client
to identify the factors that may have contributed to
their addiction– home, work, relationships and
medical history. We also believe that families have
a vital role to play in the recovery process, and each
program has a place for family participation, to educate
them in the addiction treatment process
and to equip them for their role as supporters.
Reach out to us. Recovery from addiction is just a click or a phone call away.
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