Life in the Can: Drug Addiction from Mushrooms
Psychedelic mushrooms are one of the sources of drug addiction that many people consider safe and okay. With a name that one, denotes healthy food that is an ingredient in a lot of nutritious soups and dishes and second is video games graphics that enable a user to grow taller and stronger, most people would really have trouble understanding why the medical world frowns down upon them. But, as the medical world is not likely to blatantly discredit anything just for the sheer heck of it, there really must be reasons for alarm.
“Psychedelic mushrooms” or “magic mushrooms” or “shrooms” are substances that have mind-altering capacities, as well as psychological influences. They have an active ingredient called psilocybin that acts as the catalyst for the generation of out-of-this-world (literally) trips. Some shrooms users even claim to have had contact with A Higher Being while high.
Shrooms are typically eaten raw or used to make tea. They are known to blur the dividing line between the conscious mind and the outside world. A feeling of happiness swoops down like magic on a person, too, resulting to light moods and carefree giggles. Rich visual hallucinations are also everywhere. Colors seem to ripple and sparkle. Things melt into each other. Other sensory perceptions get more exciting, too. Time can slow down or stand still. In short, consciousness and awareness is so expanded that it almost encompasses the whole universe.
Like all forms of psychedelic drug addiction, shrooms effects have a lot to do with set and setting. Set is a person’s state of mind. Setting is where a person is located. Also, shrooms are great mental amplifiers. Happiness before the ingestion gets magnified into bliss once high and sadness before the use intensifies into despair when tripping.
Well, for those who are thinking that shrooms actually sound a bit lovely and that they must not be so bad, after all have not gotten to the end of the story. Physical disturbances like stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea can arise (occupational hazards of ingesting fungi). Flashbacks from previous trips may also happen, and a person clutching his/her head in the middle of a busy intersection surely is not going to make a dear sight. If combined with the depressant alcohol, too, shrooms can set the way to ultimate danger – with the possible alcohol poisoning and the probable zoning out of this world.
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