I know but I’m going along with the hypothetical by making it as difficult as possible. I mean, they have beer kits too so with about the same expenditure of effort you could take a fun trip AND have tasty beer to wash the skanky shrooms down with. What a world!
That’s a more cogent version of the argument than I’d hear previously. I should have shown more humility and civility. Thanks for calling me on it VT.
Years ago, I was told about a local bookstore that sold a psilocybin growing kit; it was clearly marketed for educational purposes, but it was very easy to use. As noted by others, you just needed to put the spores into a container which you kept cool and dark. Wait about 3 weeks and you get mushrooms sprouting (now, the timing needs to be right; they were barely crowning one night, so I waited a couple of days and found myself with huge overgrown mushrooms - I’ve since been told that they are better plucked when they are much smaller). When you pick them, you are supposed to shake the spores into the spoil and get another round, but I failed at that, too.
The 'shrooms ended up making me sick for about an hour before the “trip” kicked in, and I threw out the whole setup - a legal, uniform system of dosaging would have been much better. A friend I’ve known used to harvest mushrooms regularly using this method.
The point is that mushrooms are very, very easy to grow and harvest, and it’s a simple thing to set it up without arousing suspicion.
(Mods, please note that I am posting in Denver, Colorado, so I am not discussing criminal behavior. Also, all of this discussion is about past events, and I don’t intend to encourage actions wherever they may be prohibited)
Holy crap! I never thought it would pass on the first vote! We truly live in interesting times!
I think the argument is particularly strong for stuff that is not manufactured or “cooked”. Marijuana is a flower, psilocybin is a fungus. OTOH you are right: I have had awesome experiences on shrooms, but also terrifying ones. As Timothy Leary said, set and setting are paramount. And even then, some people are inherently primed to basically go psychotic when using them. So it might be better if novices were required to learn how to use psychedelics in a controlled environment.