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My partner, magic mushrooms and our holiday

241 replies

Lm4065 · 10/12/2025 11:45

My partner micro doses magic mushrooms daily for mental health reasons (depression). I don’t have an issue with this.
however we are planning our first holiday. Nothing is booked yet but they have said they are planning to take some mushrooms for use there which makes sense but it hadn’t crossed my mind.
im not comfortable travelling with someone who is carrying something illegal. I don’t want to be implicated or get into trouble. I would lose my job.
my partner understands to a point but says this is not what the airport security are looking for and they won’t get caught.
I agree the risk is low however that’s not the point. They are asking me to take a big risk, and even if we don’t get caught I will be super stressed in the run up to the flight, during and whilst waiting for the case.
my partner is playing down the risk but this is not something I’m willing to compromise on.
I know my partner has travelled with friends when carrying these drugs in their bag and the friends have not had an issue with it.
does anyone have any advice Please .

OP posts:
Beachtastic · 10/12/2025 14:15

feellikeanalien · 10/12/2025 13:25

Well you learn something every day. Mushrooms are Class A. Have they always been?

I remember being at a festival in July 2005 when mushrooms were made illegal. The stallholders were walking round with baskets, giving away their stock. It was a sad moment, knowing how psilocybin has helped so many people (including myself) build happier, healthier and more successful lives.

www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/18/drugsandalcohol.markoliver

simplesimoneatspie · 10/12/2025 14:15

So you say you dont have a problem with your partner taking magic mushrooms…so that is your opinion which is now also your problem. It is illegal for a reason.

TheCorrsDidDreamsBetter · 10/12/2025 14:18

Iloveleaveinconditioner · 10/12/2025 12:36

Mumsnet’s a different bloody world when it comes to drugs, I swear! Always such ‘cool’, laissez-faire attitude to them. I must live an incredibly sheltered life as I’ve never heard of using magic mushrooms to treat depression! How do people even discover this shit?!

OP, I wouldn’t be travelling with him. Book the flights separately, you don’t want to implicate yourself if he gets caught.

I believe UCL are doing studies on it and you can sign up to clinical trials for it.

People have been microdosing mushrooms for ages though. Even macro doses that do cause psychoactive effects can leave your mood feel lifted after the psychoactive effects have worn off. Shamans in indigenous tribes have used them for hundreds of years.

I wouldn't travel with them though.

MissDoubleU · 10/12/2025 14:18

NancyMitfordsLeftGlove · 10/12/2025 14:10

You can't just take antidepressants for a week's holiday!

Clearly some posters on here have no idea how antidepressants work! It takes months to begin making any difference and within that time you go through hell.

I was once prescribed an antidepressant for anxiety and it made me suicidal and severely at risk. I’ve never cried so much in my life, never felt so awful, worthless, so far beyond unhappy. I am absolutely terrified of touching the bastards again! It did not improve and my doctor took me off them but I had such a bad mental break down in that time. I cut off all my own hair and all sorts. That’s what I get for trying to improve things, eh!

I’m in favour of anything that can help treat depression and improve the quality of life without making things so dangerously worse for such a long time first. There’s a reason a lot of people can’t stick out this adjustment period and another reason they are so desperate to get off these drugs even when they’re working!

theemmadilemma · 10/12/2025 14:20

Love all the people who have done precisely 0 research on micro dosing coming along and telling OP he's a druggy.

FFS.

Chickenwing2 · 10/12/2025 14:22

You need to watch some banged up abroad. It’s a really stupid risk to take.

simplesimoneatspie · 10/12/2025 14:23

theemmadilemma · 10/12/2025 14:20

Love all the people who have done precisely 0 research on micro dosing coming along and telling OP he's a druggy.

FFS.

Well he is a druggy. Don’t pink it up any other way!

OneFineDay22 · 10/12/2025 14:25

Lararoft · 10/12/2025 11:49

Well on my way back from Lanzarote last time through a local airport, the police were waiting with drugs sniffer dogs for someone & then happened to catch a few other random people who were probably carrying drugs of some kind for their own use, including a couple in their late 60s. Those dogs are very alert!!
I wouldn’t risk it myself.

I believe sniffer dogs are trained to detect explosives these days. A couple I know in their 60s got stopped because the woman had taken her rucksack that she usually used to carry around her fire poi for festivals and it had whatever fuel she used for the fire (parafin?) smell on the bag. She doesn’t and has never taken drugs and was really embarrassed that that’s what everyone would be thinking.

OriginalSkang · 10/12/2025 14:27

simplesimoneatspie · 10/12/2025 14:23

Well he is a druggy. Don’t pink it up any other way!

Would you refer that way to someone who drinks alcohol or smokes tobacco?

You don't 'trip' from microdosing mushrooms

KittyFinlay · 10/12/2025 14:28

Trying to sneak illegal substances through airport security is astonishingly stupid.

Where you are going is critical as in many countries the maximum penalty for drug trafficking is death. 25 years in a Thai jail would be a lucky position to be in if he was caught in the Far East.

The risk entirely depends on where you are going; it's coming up Christmas and anywhere where young people go to party and get high is going to be a hot spot and attract extra vigilance.

He's right that they are not looking specifically for mushrooms, but the dogs will find them anyway and they will prosecute you the same as if it was heroin.

theemmadilemma · 10/12/2025 14:29

simplesimoneatspie · 10/12/2025 14:23

Well he is a druggy. Don’t pink it up any other way!

Because it isn't a pill manufactured by big pharma making $$$?

Because it's something that can be grown in the ground naturally?

So just because it's currently illegal he's a druggy? He's not using it to get high.

Lots of people use prescription drugs to get high - where do they fall for you? Druggy because of use, or fine because it's legal?

Despite its legal status, psilocybin is the subject of increasing scientific and clinical research in the UK. Institutions like Imperial College London, King’s College London, and the University of Exeter have conducted government-approved studies exploring psilocybin-assisted therapy for depression, PTSD, and addiction.
There is also growing discussion amongst policymakers and medical professionals regarding the rescheduling of psilocybin to Schedule 2, which would permit its medical use under strict controls. In 2023, organisations such as Drug Science and The Beckley Foundation published open letters to the UK government, urging them to review the classification of psilocybin.
However, as of 2025, psilocybin remains a Class A, Schedule 1 substance, available for research use only under Home Office licence.

SerendipityJane · 10/12/2025 14:31

BetterOffNow · 10/12/2025 13:41

Mushrooms aren't chemicals, they're... well, mushrooms!

Point of order: everything is "chemicals".

Sexnotgendah · 10/12/2025 14:32

Just go separately. Different times . Don’t book the flights together

Slightyamusedandsilly · 10/12/2025 14:33

_nellie_ · 10/12/2025 11:48

Maybe both of you book the flights separately for peace of mind so if he does get caught you won’t have the association of being under the same booking

I came to say this.

Don't go through security together either.

Maybe book seats apart on the plane.

IF he gets through, then join up and travel to your destination/holiday together.

Same routine on the way back.

I'd not be linked to him, particularly if I was going to the middle east or Asia.

theemmadilemma · 10/12/2025 14:38

SerendipityJane · 10/12/2025 14:31

Point of order: everything is "chemicals".

I'll give you that point.

Only that though. What he's taking hasn't been processed to fuck, nor is a simulated version of the natural product, nor is it filling big pharma pockets.

Stravaig · 10/12/2025 14:39

How people feel about drug-taking in general or microdosing specifically is irrelevant here. Which countries will OP and her partner be entering and leaving and travelling within? What are their laws about the import, export, possession, buying/selling, and consumption of whatever substance(s) your partner intends to carry and use? Only with this information can you accurately evaluate the risks.

Megifer · 10/12/2025 14:39

Microdosing has been a wonder drug for my menopausal friend, im seriously considering it.

Re: your question, do you do a role where someone else close to you having a record affects your position? Like a high level security cleared type role? If not id let them crack on, i can think of at least 3 ways id sneak it in off the top of my head depending on how they take it 😬

ContentedAlpaca · 10/12/2025 14:46

This paper talks about psilocybin in conjunction with lionsmane and b3 ( niacin).

It has been postulated that this combo might also help with neuroplasticity in the case of dementia.

"Psilocybin microdosers demonstrate greater observed improvements in mood and mental health at one month relative to non-microdosing controls"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-14512-3

CherrieTomaties · 10/12/2025 14:49

Lm4065 · 10/12/2025 11:46

Thanks, are there different rules for different countries then?

I don’t want to sound horrible but WTF?

How can you not realise every country has different rules.

Have you never been abroad before?

WilfredsPies · 10/12/2025 14:49

Lm4065 · 10/12/2025 11:46

Thanks, are there different rules for different countries then?

Well if you’re going to smuggle an illegal substance through customs, would you want to do it in a country where you’d have a fair trial, laws similar to the UK and adequate legal representation? Or in a country where you’d be stuffed in a cell for 3 years before getting anywhere near a judge, with rats, cockroaches and 27 others, all jostling for floor space, in a country that still has the death penalty?

I’m on Fluoxetine which have saved my life. I think it’s really fucking stupid to piss about with illegal substances that haven’t been prescribed, but that’s down to personal choice, so long as what you do only harms you. But if someone I was going on holiday with told me that they were going to do something as monumentally stupid as trying to smuggle anything through customs, then I’d be getting an earlier flight there, so I’d be well past Customs by the time they arrived, and an earlier flight back and I’d meet them at the hotel (actually, I wouldn’t be going anywhere further than Cornwall with them, but I suspect you won’t want to give up your holiday).

They search for everything. Literally everything. Drugs, money, animal products, ffs, there are some countries where carrying an apple from your in flight meal could get your bags searched. I remember seeing a Customs exhibit once where they were showing things that had been confiscated and there was a scarf that had been made with wool from an endangered animal. It just looked like a nice scarf to me. So if they’re picking up on those things, what makes your partner think that they won’t notice illegal drugs? Does he think anyone will just assume he’s just brought his breakfast ingredients with him? I don’t think your partner is bright enough to go abroad. He’s a bloody idiot.

rainbowsparkle28 · 10/12/2025 14:50

I am sorry but what are you doing with this absolute waste of space?! Grow some self respect and know your worth, end the relationship, and don’t even contemplate this in any way doing something so utterly stupid as bringing illegal substances into another country ffs. Anyone with even an ounce of common sense would tell you that.

afatatha · 10/12/2025 14:52

Megifer · 10/12/2025 14:39

Microdosing has been a wonder drug for my menopausal friend, im seriously considering it.

Re: your question, do you do a role where someone else close to you having a record affects your position? Like a high level security cleared type role? If not id let them crack on, i can think of at least 3 ways id sneak it in off the top of my head depending on how they take it 😬

How does a menopausal woman go about finding a drug dealer? Are there risks that what you get isn't safe? I wouldn't have the first clue how to find something like this out in middle age!

SpaceRaccoon · 10/12/2025 14:56

Iloveleaveinconditioner · 10/12/2025 12:36

Mumsnet’s a different bloody world when it comes to drugs, I swear! Always such ‘cool’, laissez-faire attitude to them. I must live an incredibly sheltered life as I’ve never heard of using magic mushrooms to treat depression! How do people even discover this shit?!

OP, I wouldn’t be travelling with him. Book the flights separately, you don’t want to implicate yourself if he gets caught.

There's a number of pretty respectable medical studies including clinical trials. I don't consider psilocybin - which literally just grows freely in the UK - as remotely on a par with something like cocaine with it's lethal global drug trafficking network.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206443

Notthisagainyouidiot · 10/12/2025 14:56

I would not be happy. Whether microdosing is therapeutic, legal, illegal whatever I wouldn't be taking mushrooms through airports.
My stoner of an ex got picked out by the drug dog. He didn't actually have any on him but he'd had a joint in his pocket that he smoked on the way to the airport. Not a fun experience.
He never took any through airports, just bought it (or didn't) where he went. Could your dp do the same?

WilfredsPies · 10/12/2025 14:57

Clearly some posters on here have no idea how antidepressants work! It takes months to begin making any difference and within that time you go through hell

@MissDoubleU Not true and not true. You had a dreadful experience and I’m not belittling that. But that is not everyone’s experience. Different ads have different results.

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