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May 07, 2024
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Magic mushrooms
What are Magic Mushrooms? | Methods of use | History | The law | Price | Effects | Prevalence of use | Harm reduction | Possible medical uses
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What are Magic Mushrooms?
Agaric, Amani, Fly agaric, Liberties, Liberty Caps, Magics, Mushies, Philosopher’s Stones, Shrooms
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Magic mushrooms are hallucinogenic (perception altering) fungi that grow wild in many parts of the world including the UK, and they can also be cultivated. The main type used recreationally is the liberty cap (Psilocybe semilanceata) but the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) is also sometimes
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Liberty caps contain the naturally-occuring hallucinogenic and psychoactive compound psilocybin. Whereas the fly agaric’s psychoactive ingredients are neurotoxins ibotenic acid and muscimol. Fly agarics are classified as poisonous but reported deaths are extremely rare.
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Methods of use
Magic mushrooms (except fly agaric) are usually eaten raw but may be dried and stored for later use. They can be cooked into food or made into a tea or infusion and drunk. 20 – 30 liberty caps would be regarded as a full dose, but only one or part of a large fly agaric would be required.
Fly Agaric
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History
A huge number of hallucinogenic plants and fungi were used by ancient tribes and civilisations, usually as a means of entering the spiritual world. Fly agaric mushrooms were used by medicine men or ‘shamans’ of north east Asia and Siberia. Liberty caps were seen as sacred intoxicants by the Aztecs of Mexico at the time of the Spanish invasion in the 1500s. They do not seem to feature much in European history, although pagan witches used hallucinogenic plants from the potato family, especially Deadly Nightshade and Henbane.
Use of magic mushrooms for pleasure in the UK appears to have developed in the late 1970s as, what was then, a legal alternative to LSD. Fly agaric use is still rare but use of liberty caps has become more common, especially amongst teenagers.
The law
Mushrooms containing psilocin or psilocybin (e.g liberty caps) were brought under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and are designated as Class A drugs. There was a loophole in the Misuse of Drugs Act allowing the sale of fresh mushrooms online and in shops until the Drugs Act 2005 amended the act to state that magic mushrooms are banned regardless of whether they are dried, packaged or fresh.
Maximum penalties are 7 years imprisonment and a fine for possession and life imprisonment and a fine for supply. In practice, maximum sentences are rarely used. For more information please see the sentencing page on the Release website.
Last Edited by jodmx on May 07, 2024 8:30 AM
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