Using mushrooms is risky if you don’t know what you are doing. There have been
cases of poisoning from people picking the wrong type of mushroom.
They are a now a class A drug.
Magic Mushrooms grow wild in the UK. They are mushrooms that contain a drug called psilocybin.
This drugs makes you see and hear things that aren’t really there (hallucinate).
They are swallowed as they come, cooked or made in to a type of tea.
Psilocybin is a psychologically addictive drug.
The reason why people use mushrooms is for the “trip”. People compare it to going on a journey. The fi rst part of the journey or trip is supposed to be something like this. Once you’ve had mushrooms the effects start after about 30 minutes. Users say that they start to see traces coming off objects. The best way to describe it is like the old disco videos in the 70’s (ask your folks if you don’t know). People will sit and watch a tree or move their hand from side to side watching it as if it was the best thing they’d ever seen.
The next part of the trip happens after about an hour. The world starts to look different. Users see patterns that aren’t there, lights look brighter and the normal world starts to look very different.
The main part of the trip is what the user really wants. They feel as though the real world has stopped, “it’s like being in your own fi lm, you see things that aren’t there, it is the best feeling”. Users often say it is like being in a totally different world. When they start seeing things that aren’t really there it is called hallucinating. The trip can be good or bad. A bad trip can be your worst nightmare come true and you can’t stop it.
