...to want to buy some magic mushrooms!

[mrsmootoo]

I keep seeing articles about how the new 'social' drug is magic mushrooms instead of alcohol/cannabis/cocaine etc. (It's also being used experimentally for mental health/depression). The articles all remind us that the active 'trippy' ingredient is illegal in UK, so where are people buying the brownies/chocolate for their microdosing fun?! (Full disclosure I have taken them in the past many years ago along with other drugs a few times recreationally, so I don't have a problem or a big moral issue with it - just thought it might be fun! Maybe I need to ask some students...)

If you want to, can find some, and do it responsibly (not drive, don’t have children around etc) then go for it.
A friend of a friend has them growing on his land - so that’s how he gets them.

You can buy them online I think but around here (West Country, near the Welsh border) people tend to pick and dry their own (you've missed the season for that tho!) - that's if you want the actual trippy effect.

If you're looking for microdosing for anxiety/depression etc then you'll want Lion's Mane tincture which is sold freely online. I'm not sure if that gives you a trippy effect if you eg drank the whole bottle in one go haha.

Go forraging op

Grow them (search r/uncle Ben's on reddit).

You can't buy them to grow, but you can get syringes for microscope study here: https://cylocybe.co.uk/

The site also sells mycology kits for edible mushrooms.

Brecon Beacons in the autumn!

But if you collect them yourself, how would you know which ones to eat and how many to take? Couldn't you end up eating the worng sort and getting poisoned?

My DH has them once every few years as a treat. Only needs a small amount and he says it does wonders for him. (He done them more frequently in his 20s)

If you can do it safely then why not. Just go easy 🙂

Any more suggestions? Direct sources?? 😬

Dark web?

Smart shops in The Netherlands / Amsterdam ! Online, very discreet, lots to choose from......

When I did them back in my teens and 20s we picked them ourselves (Dartmoor).

very easy to identify and if you find an area where they grow then you can have enough for a trip in a few minutes.

I ate a fly agaric once. It was totally insane.

Used to buy them on Camden high street many years ago. No idea where I'd get them now.

This annoys me. On the one hand, everyone in prison is a recidivist… I was recently on remand with a woman who was also on remand for handling magic mushrooms.

Get your middle class shop in order MN.

Me too! There must be a market for responsibility sourced mushrooms. Yes, you can forage but not at this time of the year. I bought truffles online from here www.earthresonance.com/ and they were one of the very few Dutch shops shipping to the U.K.

But I'd like to buy them here! The effects are meant to be incredible. I used the truffles for microdosing, but wasn't blown away. I'd like to try a full dose. I've even considered going on a retreat to the Netherlands but the price is crazy!

I'm not middle class and completely disagree with mushrooms and weed being criminalised (any drugs tbh, creates more problems). Mumsnet is not a hive mind, there are plenty who think you may as well mainline crack as have a crafty joint of a nighttime writing off a lot of Canada in the meantime as reprobates. They are hysterical idiots in my view, but what can you do.

They are class B here, who would risk it? apart from lots on Snapchat and instagram. It is easy to grow your own BTW.

I grew Lion's Mane from a kit. Ate them fresh like any other mushroom. Well, fried in garlic. Tasted of nothing and gave me the shits .
😂

Just wait a couple of months and pick and dry your own

Just wait a couple of months and pick and dry your own

You can buy spores legally and grow your own.

Saw some in cowpat in moorland fields where I am 😂