Publisher's Synopsis
"One of the best new Mushroom books" - BookAuthority
"One of the best new Mushroom ebooks" - BookAuthority
Magic Mushrooms are making a long overdue comeback, but in most of the United States they remain illegal- at least the psilocybe mushrooms. This has been the case since 1971, when psilocybin and psilocin (the active drugs in psilocybe mushrooms) were listed as Schedule I substances. However some progress has been made, as evident in roughly half a dozen cities across the country that have decriminalized the drugs altogether. Some states, such as Oregon and California, have even legalized these drugs for supervised mental health treatment.
Not many studies have been done involving these drugs, and most of the studies that were conducted ended abruptly, due to low funding. However I find it rather important to understand these mushrooms better, so in this book I study and document the growing environment and life cycle with clear, premium color images. I also study the effects of both; smoking the mushrooms and eating them, along with exploring the future possibilities of cultivating this mycorrhizal fungus for the very first time indoors. The main focus of this book is to study the varieties of Amanita muscaria found growing wild in North America [Amanita muscaria var guessowii and Amanita persicina]. I find this important, largely because many reports suggested that these species are not "active", meaning not hallucinogenic- but they indeed are.
