I gave a review on microdosing to my local mushroom club. More looking in at the field than being a participant. It is like the cannabis and wellness industries had a lovechild. They use female influences to promote the products and the majority of the customers are younger males.
Outside of cities or states where psychedelic mushrooms are decriminalized their product can’t contain psilocybin. Instead they are promoting muscimol that is extracted from fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria) using the excess capacity of the cannabis industry. Like alcohol, muscimol can cause vomiting, drowsiness and suppressed breathing when taken at high enough doses. That could lead to intubation in a worse case situation.
The advertising copy for Diamond Shruumz does not mention muscimol, and the lab report links point to a missing page so I don’t know what exactly is in them. They may be going an alternative route for a “natural” high. Plant extracts that are legal to sell but are metabolized in the body to DMT or other psychedelic compounds. If they picked the wrong compounds then there could be serious issues.
For the muscimol at first I thought there was a new cheap synthesis route but the commercial price for research grade muscimol is still really high. Then I realized that the mushroom hunters picking boletes are now also picking Amanita muscaria and selling it onto the cannabis/THC industry.
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