«Cultures that have long used
psilocybin mushrooms for healing or religious purposes have recognized their potential dangers and have developed corresponding safeguards,» says Griffiths.
Although his passion for mycology was sparked by his own experiences
with psilocybin mushrooms as a young man, Stamets no longer advocates casual use of hallucinogens.
Battelle researchers tested his fungal strains against neurotoxins and found one potent variety
of psilocybin mushroom highly effective at breaking down VX nerve gas.
Like characters in one of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big
metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and...
Like characters in one of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal
psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and definitely nothing about science gone wrong.
For the new survey, Griffiths» team used advertisements on social media platforms and email invitations to recruit people who self - reported a difficult or challenging experience while
taking psilocybin mushrooms.
On view is his highly influential 1997 work, Psilocybe Cubensis Field, for which Paine created nearly 2200
miniature psilocybin mushrooms and affixed them to the floor so that they appear to be magically sprouting out of the woodwork.
(Beug also secured a license from the Drug Enforcement Administration allowing him and his students to work
with psilocybin mushrooms.)
The researchers caution that their survey results don't apply to
all psilocybin mushroom use, since the questionnaire wasn't designed to assess «good trip» experiences.
Alcohol and caffeine are ingested in beverage form; nicotine and cannabis are smoked or vaped; peyote and
psilocybin mushrooms are ingested in botanical form or dried; and crystalline drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamines are usually insufflated (inhaled or «snorted»).
Forms repeat across works — some looking like etiolated,
psilocybin mushrooms, others mere squiggles — recalling the biomorphic abstraction of mid-twentieth century figures like Arp or Moore or Miro.