www.facebook.com/sonichealing – Shroom Mellow Acid Trip, Goa Trance Trippy Music – Wonderland Wishes Psilocybin also known as psilocybine or 4-PO-DMT) is a prodrug for the classical hallucinogen compound psilocin, or 4-HO-DMT (4-hydroxyl-dimethyltryptamine), the active metabolite of psilocybin, responsible for the psychoactive effects of the drug. Both drugs are members of the indole and tryptamine classes. Psilocybin-containing mushrooms are used both recreationally and traditionally, for spiritual purposes, as entheogens, with a history of use spanning millennia. In a 1957 Life article, the American banker R. Gordon Wasson described his experiences ingesting psilocybin-containing mushrooms during a traditional ceremony in Mexico, introducing the drug to popular culture. Shortly after, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was able to purify the active principle psilocybin from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana, and developed a synthetic method to produce the drug. Psilocybin is produced by over 200 species of fungi, including those of the genus Psilocybe, such as P. cubensis, P. semilanceata and P. cyanescens, and has also been reportedly isolated from about a dozen other genera. Collectively known as psilocybin mushrooms, these are commonly called “boomers”, “sacred mushrooms”, “magic mushrooms”, or more simply “‘shrooms”. Possession, and in some cases usage, of psilocybin or psilocin has been outlawed in most countries across the globe.[1] Proponents of its usage consider it …
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