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For those curious: you can cultivate your own at home. It’s 100% legal to purchase psilocybin spores online in many states. I just had to throw out a grow due

For those curious: you can cultivate your own at home. It’s 100% legal to purchase psilocybin spores online in many states. I just had to throw out a grow due to contamination - super frustrating setback - but I’m determined to produce a healthy harvest.

PragmaticPulp 6y ago
Before anyone rushes to do this: Cultivating these mushrooms is not legal, even if buying the spores might be. Likewise, self-medicating severe depression with hone grown psychedelics is not a great idea. These studies use controlled administration in supervised environments often with therapy as part of the process. You cannot replicate that at home. Psychedelics also can’t be dosed continuously like traditional antidepressants, making them a poor choice for continued treatment.
- whalesalad 6y ago
  This is not a hacker mindset.
- albrewer 6y ago
  To add on to this, these mushrooms should not be taken by anyone with liver problems - I was specifically warned by my gastroenterologist that, behind alcohol and starchy foods, magic mushrooms will screw up your liver very quickly.
  - quchen 6y ago
    Did they mention why? Sounds like FUD to me, since the psilos I know of are mostly water, indigestible chitin, and trace amount of kidney-excreted psilocin/psilocybin.
    - SauciestGNU 6y ago
      I had heard warnings about damaging kidney function with regular high dosage use, but not from a medical professional.
ashconnor 6y ago
It's a shame that former MP and Home Office Minister Caroline Flint decided to reclassify psilocybin as a "Class A" drug alongside heroin and cocaine despite no evidence of it causing psychosis. That really was the peak of New Labour's evidence-less led drugs reforms. [1] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/25/drugsandalcohol.immigrationpolicy https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/25/drugsandalcohol.i...
GordonS 6y ago
I grew up in rural Scotland, and every Autumn the countryside seemed to explode with mushrooms - even the play park next door to my house was covered in them! After several years, the local council started spraying the park with something to kill them, but there were still an abundance available elsewhere.

PragmaticPulp 6y ago

Before anyone rushes to do this: Cultivating these mushrooms is not legal, even if buying the spores might be. Likewise, self-medicating severe depression with hone grown psychedelics is not a great idea. These studies use controlled administration in supervised environments often with therapy as part of the process. You cannot replicate that at home. Psychedelics also can’t be dosed continuously like traditional antidepressants, making them a poor choice for continued treatment.

whalesalad 6y ago
This is not a hacker mindset.
albrewer 6y ago
To add on to this, these mushrooms should not be taken by anyone with liver problems - I was specifically warned by my gastroenterologist that, behind alcohol and starchy foods, magic mushrooms will screw up your liver very quickly.
- quchen 6y ago
  Did they mention why? Sounds like FUD to me, since the psilos I know of are mostly water, indigestible chitin, and trace amount of kidney-excreted psilocin/psilocybin.
  - SauciestGNU 6y ago
    I had heard warnings about damaging kidney function with regular high dosage use, but not from a medical professional.

ashconnor 6y ago

It's a shame that former MP and Home Office Minister Caroline Flint decided to reclassify psilocybin as a "Class A" drug alongside heroin and cocaine despite no evidence of it causing psychosis. That really was the peak of New Labour's evidence-less led drugs reforms. [1] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/25/drugsandalcohol.immigrationpolicy https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/25/drugsandalcohol.i...

GordonS 6y ago

I grew up in rural Scotland, and every Autumn the countryside seemed to explode with mushrooms - even the play park next door to my house was covered in them! After several years, the local council started spraying the park with something to kill them, but there were still an abundance available elsewhere.