My partner, magic mushrooms and our holiday

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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 .

While I wouldn't want to be with someone who takes drugs at all let alone carries through the airport, you're being ridiculously OTT describing someone microdosing as "off their face".

I wouldn't travel with someone carrying Class A drugs. Not because I fear I'd lose my job - I don't think you would - but because the angst would be too much.

I don't judge anyone for microdosing mushrooms though - there's good evidence behind the efficacy.

Can they not purchase in whatever country you are going to?

You don't need a dealer, you just need to learn where to pick them and how to ID them.

She grows her own shrooms now and dehydrates them but used to get it powdered from Amsterdam i believe.

Only thing stopping me is, similar to how I cant even smell Tequila without vomiting after a very drunken night in my youth, the last shroom trip I had wasn't particularly pleasant even though I know microdosing doesn't give any noticeable effect at all.

In case it hasn’t been said before, some countries have incredibly harsh penalties for carrying drugs, up to and including the death penalty if carrying significant amounts. You are not being unreasonable to want him to take a holiday without carrying class A drugs with him.

Could he check legislation for where he's going at them sent straight to the destination or buy over there?

Seriously?
Do you not think visiting Indonesia or Saudi Arabia might be somewhat different from visiting Finland or Iceland?

Your partner is talking nonsense. You need to understand that magic mushrooms are a class A drug under UK law, with penalties of up to 7 years in prison

Whatever the laws are in the country you are going to, you as well as your partner, will still be smuggling a class A drug through UK customs.

NO! They have been Class A since the 60s, any processing of any kind makes them class A even picking them, the only time they are not class A is the spores or the unpicked mushroom,

In that case, given the number of non deaths from ingesting badly IDed fungi, the UK is hardly in the grip of a 'shroom epidemic.

They (apparently) grew in some woods opposite my 6th form.

I'll stick to home distilling for my edge of danger 😎

Has he tried 5-htp which can be bought from places like Holland & Barrett, or high might be a better alternative in the week before and during the holiday, rather than risk the problem of getting caught with something illegal?

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I don't think you understand micro-dosing.

Irrelevant. I wouldn't take anything illegal or dodgy through an airport. Doesn't your partner know how an airport works? Not just that OP but I would consider your life choices right now of dating someone who is risking a crimal record!.

Do you want kids with this man?

Microdosing isn't going to get you out of your tree and make you a bad parent.

Being locked up for carrying class As through an airport would.

There is more than her anxiety to think about here. She would be implicated in smuggling a class A drug. She is aware of it so therefore it would be a joint enterprise.

What the actual gold plated fuck are you talking about

@SpaceRaccoon ah yes we used to forage, there were plenty in my neck of the woods back then. Had some really lovely happy larks out in the country ! I wouldn't take them in an urban / city setting tho. Something about psilocybin absolutely impels you to be outdoors, grass beneath your feet etc. Well it does me anyway. Happy daze ! And oh my goodness, getting the giggles 🙃

Oh and What's Up Docs on the Beeb covered this subject (microdosing) a while ago, it was interesting. Seemed to lean in more to the placebo effect. I haven't taken the supplements long enough to know if they do make a difference....

Get a grip, microdosing does not make someone a 'druggy' 😂

Weed and mushrooms, both natural and with many benefits are illegal because the Government can't patent them.

Nobody has ever died from either.

Meanwhile alcohol is available on any high street.
For an example in 2024 there were an estimated 21,971 deaths from alcohol.

You'll be fine, unless there are drug sniffer dogs and then there could be issues. Travel separately maybe?

Microdosing was briefly a thing about 30 years ago. It was discussed in relation to schizophrena and alcoholism (DB subscribes to a lot of medical journals).

The thing that intrigued me most was the suggestion that a single dose can actually "cure" (or prevent from recurring) the condition. Like all you need is a slight "rewire" to set things straight.

However, as DB has said for years, it's a shame when cures are natural, as no one will spend money researching them.

Airport security absolutely look for this. That’s why they have sniffer dogs, here and abroad. A relative, who works with controlled drugs, always gets stopped & their phone swabbed because there’s traces from contact transfer at work on their device. Ofc the swabs show clear because it’s trace levels and it’s a legal drug, but you’re describing a whole different scenario.

You could both end up having your bums searched. A definite no from me!

yes. different countries have different level of severity.

some places its life in jail or death, some places its 5 - 10 years.

it could also depend on the amount and wether its trafficking with intent to supply.

i would book separately and with different bank accounts. different flights if you want the extra layer of safety.

no matter the country or its legality in the country, on all international flights it is illegal.

From memory, isn't the dose needed titrated in micrograms ? Or is that just LSD ?