Thousands sign up to experience magic mushrooms as Oregon's novel psilocybin experiment takes off
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Oregon has taken an unprecedented step in offering psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, to the public.

Psilocybin tea, wind chimes and a tie-dye mattress await those coming to an office suite in Eugene to trip on magic mushrooms. For roughly six hours, adults over 21 can experience what many users describe as vivid geometric shapes, a loss of identity and a oneness with the universe.

Epic Healing Eugene — Oregon’s first licensed psilocybin service center — opened in June, marking the state’s unprecedented step in offering the mind-bending drug to the public. The center now has a waitlist of more than 3,000 names, including people with depression, PTSD or end-of-life dread.

No prescription or referral is needed, but proponents hope Oregon’s legalization will spark a revolution in mental health care.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.world
    621·
    1 year ago

    I hope this takes off like marijuana did, I’ll happily make a trip to Oregon to go on a trip in Oregon

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

      It’s also shockingly easy to grow em yourself

      Like 50 bucks of setup gardening equipment and you can get the spores shipped to your door in basically any state

      • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have a green thumb and might be able to pull this off even if they aren’t green. I assume you need substrate and controlled humidity.

        What has always stopped me is worry that someone will knock on my door asking what I’ve done with this package of spores.

      • cmbabul@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Maybe if I ever get a bigger apt, I’ve looked into it in the past and never pulled the trigger

        • chaogomu@kbin.social
          10·
          1 year ago

          There was (is?) a subreddit called UncleBens, where users talk about using a pouch of Uncle Ben’s microwave rice to grow mushrooms.

          Apparently, it’s the perfect growth media for low budget shroom cultivation.

          I don’t know what other things you’d need, like temperature and humidity control, and keeping everything sterile after inoculating the rice might be an issue as well. I never spent a lot of time looking at the subreddit, I just know it exists.

          • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Some small mason jars, a way to puncture the lids, some cheap tape, brown rice flour, and vermiculite

            Then a big plastic tub and some perlite for the fruiting chamber

            Super cheap and shockingly easy

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
    231·
    1 year ago

    NGL, it’s been an absolute game-changer for my wife’s depression.

      • NekoRogue@slrpnk.net
        3·
        1 year ago

        Can you tell us a bit more about your experience? Like how you felt before, your experience with the mushrooms, and how you feel now? I have been struggling with depression and ADHD forever and I feel like I’ve tried everything.

        • Specific_Skunk@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          As someone who’s spent years on and off meds, I find a yearly dose of shrooms does the brain good. For me it mostly reminds me that the universe is waaaaaay larger than myself so all the anxiety and doom-and-gloom depression I get is just fucking pointless. I can enjoy the flowers a little more, or any of the small things in life because it just…. Doesn’t fucking matter.

    • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 year ago

      I tried this two times now, but with no luck. I was off any medication for months before the second try because I’d read that ssris can prevent the effects of mushrooms, so now I worry the effect of SSRIs may be permanent because I felt absolutely no effect besides a little nausea. Was that not a factor for your wife?

    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      If you’re just looking to try on your own, and not in a medical setting like what is legal. Uncle Ben’s or brf (brown rice flower) methods are the easiest way to get them. Spores can be purchased legally in a lot of places online. And there’s a lot of knowledge available on growing if you look. The worse version of lemmy ie reddit has several subs devoted to this and at least used to have safe online vendors to buy spores. There’s also some great YouTube channels, even ones that are strictly about legal mushrooms have knowledge that transfers to cubes.

      • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The worse version of lemmy ie reddit

        oh no, you did NOT just say reddit is a version of lemmy. take that back! TAKE THAT BACK!! 😭

      • reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        Seconding this. I don’t do psychedelics anymore but Uncle Ben tek has grown me plenty of oysters and is currently working some lions mane. The technique is more or less the same and I learned from people who were focused on growing cubensis.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    34·
    1 year ago

    I’ve never lost my sense of identity on shrooms. Or any drugs first that matter.

    • flux@lemmy.world
      131·
      1 year ago

      Well… You you most likely will if you take more. Just make sure you are in a safe space. I’ve been spirt guide to a few people who didn’t know what that means because they had never taken enough. It can be terrifying to some so I recommend a guide who has been there before.

      • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
        22·
        1 year ago

        Lol no I’m good. My drug days are behind me now. I’ve moved on to the prescription phase of life.