What are the immediate effects of magic mushrooms?
Magic mushrooms make the user have a trip a bit like taking L.S.D. but milder and shorter. People taking magic mushrooms often laugh a lot and feel very relaxed. A trip usually lasts about 4 hours. Users may experience a bad stomach-ache, sickness and/or diarrhoea. Worse still you may eat the wrong type of mushroom, many mushrooms which look like magic ones, are very poisonous. Eating a poisonous mushroom can cause serious illness and even fatal poisoning. A bad trip may also happen, especially if the user is already feeling anxious or depressed. A bad trip can be very frightening and once the trip has started there is no stopping it. What are the long-term effects of magic mushrooms? If taken regularly magic mushrooms can cause and complicate mental health problems. What is the legal status of magic mushrooms? It isn t an offence to possess raw magic mushrooms but it is an offence to possess any preparation of them e.g. when they are dried or stewed. Once prepared magic mushrooms are
