Mushrooms

These little babies known as magic mushrooms, shrooms, boomers, booms, mushies, contain a natural "poison" that can most definitely harm your body and mind.
The active chemical that makes you hallucinate is called psilocybin which is actually found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms. Crazy, right?

So you've probably heard about what mushrooms do, you know they make you see cool things, but what is actually happening is the mushrooms disrupt how your nerve cells and the neurotransmitter serotonin interact throughout the brain and spinal cord. When the natural functioning of serotonin in the brain change, mushrooms alter the way you normally take in information and can make you hallucinate. I'm sorry if that was too technical for you to read...

When you take mushrooms, the difference between fantasy and reality is completely hard to tell. You visualize, sense, and hear things that might not really exist... Some may also experience a "bad trip" since the shift in perception can be kind of scary. It can cause panic attacks, intense emotional mood swings, and psychosis.

Now time for the long-term effects!
Randomly, a few days, even possibly to a year later, the brain somehow can produce flashbacks- feelings and thoughts that replay the effects of being on the drug. Psychiatric illness and impaired memory have been reported as the long term effects.

To nip this blog in the butt, I'm gonna end it by saying yeah, mushrooms are natural and what not, but nature produces a crap load of plants that are poisonous. By distorting the natural function of your brain, mushrooms can fall into a category of dangerousness!


Here's a little video of what one looks like when on mushrooms.