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Magic Mushrooms, since they are known, are naturally occurring Fungi which are often consumed raw or dried and ground up and drank in tea or coffee, and produce hallucinogenic effects. There are many, many different types and types of magic mushrooms with varying strengths. Simply the mushrooms release the imagination to internal or external influences and allow it to run without bounds, whether the 'trip' be pleasurable or perhaps a nightmarish experience is almost uncontrollable. It generally takes no more than an hour or so for the trip to engage, and can last up to 6 hours. It is like a less intense option to the much more dangerous semi-synthetic hallucinogen LSD.
Whilst the future ramifications of taking magic mushrooms regularly are somewhat unknown, the greatest problem is their natural availability (they grow in wild grazing fields in or just around cow and horse feces). This can be somewhat of an irresistible lure to the thrill seeking mushroom users who'll head out and collect them on their own thinking every mushroom is consumable wavy bar shroom. However, not all of these fungi are the desired ones and it can be extremely difficult to tell apart ones which are or aren't toxic. Some of those mushrooms are highly poisonous and can kill in an exceedingly slow and painful way, like fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. Some have even a late reaction taking days to show any signs or symptoms before taking your life with simply no antidote.
Because Magic Mushrooms are naturally occurring and not 'processed' in any way before consumption, they're somewhat naively considered a safe 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. Depending on the mushroom-users mental predisposition however, mushrooms can have a damaging effect on the user. For example, if the user is susceptible to having a fragile mental state or is of a very suggestible nature, they might believe their hallucinations to function as manifestation of something true and become somewhat involved with it and damaged by it.
One such documented case of those extremities involved a son who began taking mushrooms and started obtaining the recurring hallucination of a flower clothed as a court-jester which repeatedly taunted him with scarring insults. As preposterous since it sounds, without discounting these experiences merely as hallucinations, he believed this abusive-flower to function as manifestation of truths about himself and spiralled into a significant 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, to this day he still struggles with emotional and mental issues which simply weren't there prior to the advent of his life-changing hallucinations. It would be impossible to express for several in this 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.
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