About 70 mushrooms are known to contain psilocybin. In America, the most famous are Cubensis and Caerulescens. They became famous in 1957 when an American banker told Life magazine about a „travel“ experience in Mexico. The following year, in 1958, chemist Albert Hofmann succeeded in isolating high-purity psilocybin in a laboratory. Macrodoses, a toxic intake that changes reality for a few hours, are ancestral ceremonies that have never gone out of style. For example, they are created between friends in a playful and insightful way. Mushrooms in tinctures, serums and powders are seeping into wellness diets, in part because after decades of reliance on drugs to treat various diseases and conditions, consumers are increasingly focusing on diet and more natural ways to improve their health, Penn State`s Lambert says. But that could change thanks to the efforts of proponents of psychedelic policy reform. In May 2019, Denver voters approved an initiative prohibiting the county from arresting or prosecuting people caught growing or possessing mushrooms for their personal use. The initiative made Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize magic mushrooms. Last November, Oregon became the first state to legalize psilocybin, the main active ingredient in „magic“ mushrooms, for the treatment of certain mental disorders in supervised environments.

Until 2008, these stores were located in a legal grey area next to Amsterdam`s cannabis cafes. This year, the Dutch government launched a crackdown on magic mushrooms. This abrupt change in policy was triggered by the death of Gaelle Caroff, a 17-year-old French student who bought mushrooms from a luxury store during a trip to Amsterdam in 2007 and jumped under the influence of a building. Its cultivation, sale and distribution are not allowed, but many consumers and specialists consider psilocybin as an alternative to the traditional treatment of depression, anxiety, chronic pain, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and attention deficit. Psilocybin is used by people who are looking to readjust to addiction to legal drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, as well as people who are looking to use problematic substances. And also those who want to connect more relaxed with their environment. Art. Art. 13 — When narcotic drugs are used to facilitate or commit another offence, the penalty prescribed for that offence is increased by one third of the minimum and maximum amount and may not exceed the maximum amount of the law for the type of offence concerned. „It was a cucumelo from Rosario, from an ordinary cow,“ recalls „Azul“: „He brought her from there, it`s a myth that grows only in the excrement of Cebú. It was a beautiful experience, very similar to ayahuasca, but more psychedelic, more© sensory, it was the wonder of seeing the colors, the infinity of shapes. He had a second experiment with mushrooms, months later©, this time with a cucumelo coming out of the dung of a bait that „Azul“ found next to a fence.

„I didn`t know if I was toxic or not, just in case he sent© me some.“ I saw my body moving behind him. In any case, I was beating the common cow more. Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug found in mushrooms of the genus Psilocybe, better known as „magic mushrooms“ or cucumelo. In its natural environment, this fungus grows in the manure of cows and sheep, but they can be grown locally. They are edible. The effect is not stimulating, but changes reality: it distorts it. The traditional intake is done in rituals or sessions that last an average of four hours; The famous „journey“. -What© is the effect of the mushrooms you grow? How can you describe it? Since truffles contain the same psychoactive compounds as magic mushrooms (psilocybin and psilocin), the experience is similar. However, some find that traveling with truffles is smoother and less introspective than with regular mushrooms. They can be purchased in smart stores or consumed at psilocybin retreats like Synthesis in Amsterdam. Over the past eight years, still in ± his mother`s garage, from where he never hid what he was doing, „Azul“ has learned and mastered the complex process of planting psychedelic© mushrooms. The PFA troops were surprised by their oiled system of glass, shelves and air-conditioned environments.

An official in the Precursor Chemicals Division, who is familiar with drugs other than marijuana, paco and cocaine, admitted, „You don`t see that every day, not at all.“ Psychedelics©are usually imported into this country for the most part. LSD has Germany as its main origin; Ayahuasca is cooked throughout Brazil according to long rites to be smuggled into bottles. Ecstasy©as a chemical is not produced locally: it comes from packaging from Germany and Spain± so „Azul“ has achieved one of the rarest T&Ts in the narco scene with its homemade© allies: as one of the largest producers of hallucinogens in Argentina`s recent history. Psilocybe cubensis, better known in Argentina as „Cucumelo“, belongs to the group of agaricales fungi. Like the vast majority of mushrooms, it is characterized by absorbotrophic nutrition, which means that it must receive food from the environment. To do this and lack them, you need to release enzymes that break down your food to the point where they can pass through the wall and membrane of your cells. It`s somewhat similar to what spiders do, injecting gastric juices into the bodies of their prey and then sucking up the already decomposed food. It is often said that spiders and fungi perform external digestion by performing it outside their own body. Today, Salvo grows shiitake, oysters and other mushrooms in Ponderosa Mushroom`s 28 air-conditioned and air-conditioned rooms. A month later, the city council in Oakland, California, passed a resolution prohibiting law enforcement from using city funds to arrest people for possession of magic mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca or other entheogenic plants. Most recently, the city of Santa Cruz, California effectively decriminalized mushrooms in January 2020.

The authorities unanimously adopted a resolution to make the detention of people for possession or cultivation of magic mushrooms for personal use one of the lowest priorities of law enforcement. Other cities like Chicago or New York, where Decriminalize Nature activists plan their own campaigns, could follow the example of Oakland and Santa Cruz. Regarding the legal situation of other countries, we highlight the example of Brazil, where psilocybin mushrooms are legal and people can consume and grow them freely (they are even marketed online) without negative consequences for society. The same path is being followed by some U.S. states that have decriminalized psilocybin mushrooms. Ponderosa mushrooms end up on table plates, but Salvo says his mushrooms are also being introduced into interesting new areas like tea and even beer. If „Azul“ had been arrested two years ago, say two ± years ago, he would have been released against him without reason under the signature of a federal judge. Psilocybin, the active ingredient in the mushrooms she grows and the vast majority of mushrooms on the Argentine drug market, such as the famous „cucumelo“ that grows in fattening and cow feces, was not included in the decree listing substances banned in Argentina until last year©±. in a shameful case of legislative backlog. The fungus has not been punishable for decades©.

However, the ban hasn`t stopped American psychonauts from enjoying mushrooms over the past 50 years. Because psilocybin fungal spores are legal in most states, many psychonauts can grow them. However, this loophole does not mean that the fruits of their labor are legal once they are reproduced. That is why we call on the nation-state to respect individual freedoms, guarantee our civil rights, and decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms© in defense of the public interest. The arguments are then deepened. Last year, Canada allowed a limited number of terminally ill people to use psychedelic mushrooms. The „cucumelo“ is probably the most mystical species in the entire mushroom kingdom, and at the same time the lack of interest with which it is treated attracts attention. „Nixon`s 1968 campaign and the subsequent White House had two enemies: the pacifist left and blacks,“ Ehrlichman said.