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As you embark on your first magic mushroom trip, we’d like to let you know a bit about the road ahead. Since this may be your first experience, we suggest you start out by choosing a private safe place, probably your home, with one or two trusted friends or family members that agree to stay sober, and that will be available just in case you become anxious or uncomfortable.

Prepare to embrace an alternate reality. There is a good reason that these experiences are described as trips. As with any journey, appreciating the adventure is part of the fun. It is OK to go with the flow. The only way to truly know what to prepare for is by having already been there. The one thing you can expect is that it will be both beautiful and life-changing. If your mindset is one of acceptance and you realize that many things could happen, you can better enjoy the onset of the effects.

A magic mushroom trip can be broken down into 4 basic phases. They are the ingestion, the onset, the peak (the actual “trip”), and the comedown.

Phase #1– The Ingestion
First, get comfortable, both physically and mentally. This may involve making sure you don’t have an empty stomach and that you have a glass or bottle of water handy. Taking mushrooms on an empty stomach can make you nauseous, and even though eating a bit before your trip may mean it take a bit longer to feel the effects, it will be helpful, and there is no need to be in a hurry. You shouldn’t be tripping on a schedule anyway.

To ingest the magic mushrooms, you can consume them raw and dried (can be hard on your stomach), in psilocybin isolate capsule form, ground into a powder, or even steeped in tea (an easy way for first-timers). Usually, it takes roughly an hour to begin to feel the effects.

The Recorded History
There are early and extensive accounts in pre-Columbian history of Mesoamerican cultures like the Mayans and Aztecs using psilocybin. The Spanish forbade the use of psychedelic mushrooms in the 15th and 16th centuries. They considered it to be savage and uncivilized. The religious shamans ignored the Spanish law and continued using the mushrooms in secret. For over 400 years, they preserved their cultural heritage and continued including psilocybin mushrooms as an integral part of it.

In 1799 an account of psilocybin mushroom “intoxication” surfaced when four children were accidentally fed Psilocybe semilanceata. Then in 1971, psilocybin was made illegal by the UN as a schedule 1 drug. Today the UN allows countries who have signed its treaty to regulate psilocybin mushrooms as they see fit.

The History of Magic Mushrooms, BC (British Columbia)
In Canada, the community of Haida Gwaii holds the Canadian history of magic Mushrooms. This community and other first nations used the mushrooms for spiritual and medicinal purposes.

Magic mushrooms remain abundant and popular. The use of psilocybin is no longer a social and legal problem. Although hunting for local Liberty Cap mushrooms is still a pastime, the shrooms sold for recreational use are largely relegated to tropical and subtropical species, like Psilocybe cubensis.