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... Mushrooms can be very tasty but there are some kinds that should not be eaten. There are some mushrooms that can kill you, while there are others that can drug you. Mushrooms, magic mushrooms, mushies, shrooms, psilocybes, cubes and liberty caps are only some of the names for the mushrooms which drug you (Erowid). When eaten, these mushrooms cause a feeling of intoxication much like the symptoms of many other drugs. These “magic mushrooms” are becoming more and more widely and frequently used among American citizens who are mostly adolescents.
The substance in the mushroom that causes the hallucinogenic affects is called psilocybin. There are three different genera of mushrooms, which contain the drug, known as Psilocyba, Panaelous, and Cononcybe (Schwartz). They are ussually small brown or tan mushrooms, which are easily mistakable for non-psychedelic, inedible, or poisonous mushrooms. ... One distinguishable feature of most psilocybin containing mushrooms is that they bruise blue when they are handled (Erowid). These mushrooms have been being used for centuries. ... In the United States, hallucinogenic mushrooms grow naturally on cow manure mostly in the northwest and southeast. ... It is considered a hallucinogenic drug that is in the same family as mescaline, peyote, and about twenty other substances (Cannizaro).
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