Magic Mushrooms
Also Known As: shrooms, caps, mushrooms, psilocybin and psilocyn.
What You Should Know:
Magic Mushrooms may be sold as dried whole mushrooms or a brown powdered material. They contain Psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance that also comes in a white powder, tablets, or capsules. They are typically eaten or brewed as tea. The effects are very unpredictable.
What's the Problem?
- You may feel dizzy or lightheaded and get stomach cramps and nausea.
- Your blood pressure and heart rate will rise, and you may feel anxiety.
- Other drugs can be mixed in with psilocybin that can give you a bad reaction.
- Since it's very hard to tell some mushroom varieties apart; the risk of accidentally eating a poisonous mushroom is high. Some poisonous mushrooms can be fatal within hours.
- Some users may get “flashbacks” or “hallucinogens persisting perception disorder” (HPPD), which are reoccurrences of hallucinations users experience long after taking the drug.
