INTRODUCTION Mind-altering (psilocybine containing) mushrooms have been traditionally used in religious healing and curing ceremonies by native peoples in Mesoamerica for more than 3,000 years. Today, the recreational use of hallucinogenic fungi by Westerners is widespread, especially in various regions of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Great Britain, Europe (especially in the Netherlands), Scandinavia, South America, Southeast Asia, India, Bali, Samoa; Australia and New Zealand. The modern, non-traditional use of hallucinogenic mushrooms has been stimulated, by media reports in newspapers, magazines, word-of-mouth communication, the World Wide Web and Internet, and also by the scholarly and popular journal publications of the renown ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson, (Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary, traveler Jeremy Sanford, health guru Andrew Weil, and others (see Allen , Merlin &Jansen, 1991).This field guide reviews the history of both the accidental and purposeful use of psychoactive mushrooms in Australia and New Zealand.
Information in this guide has been gathered from personal experiences in Mailremaxsapphireistcom Australia by the author and from reports in the scientific literature, news items appearing in the popular press, and personal communications with Australian and New Zealand (NZ) professionals (Unsigned 1970; O'Neill, 1986).

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experimenting with them . loc:NL com remax-sapphire-ist mail Information On Shrooms Lsd Shrooms On the other hand, baeocystin as the Biochemical precursor of psilocybin is found in all fruiting bodies of the Psilocybe species. The precursor has a hydrogen atom where psilocybin's only CH3 group is located; the average baeocystin content is 0.2% of dry weight. In 1967, Leung and Paul reported the isolation of baeocystin from fruiting bodies of Psilocybe baeocystis Singer & Smith in North America. In 1977, Repke and Leslie also found the substance in Whereinkentuckycanifindmagicmushrooms a Psilocybe semilanceata sample from the same place of origin. Some investigators have found differences in alkaloid content when comparing single fruiting bodies from the same location. contain additional substances that contribute to the overall psychotropic effect. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that considerable amounts Sol Co Co Jp Sol Mail Sol of baeocystin are consistently found in samples of Psilocybe semilanceata. I am also aware of an experiment whose results showed that 4 mg of baeocystin caused mild hallucinations for three hours, while 10 mg of baeocystin were found to be about as psychoactive as a similar amount of psilocybin. The Long Shelflife of Psilocybin TABLE 2 Alkaloid Content of Dried Mushrooms from a Location in the Dubener Marshlands of Eastern Germany (Selected Results) Dry Weigh t (mg ) Ps i locybi n (%) Baeocys t i n (%) 18 1.25 0.
34 30 0.96 0.21 70 0.72 0.19 85 0.90 0.10 Smaller mushrooms almost always contained more alkaloids than larger specimens. This fording was then confirmed by another study using considerably larger amount of investigative materials (40 mushrooms). Moreover, exceptionally high concentrations of baeocystin have been shown to accumulate in the caps of fruiting bodies that contain the alkaloid. In addition, one mushroom sample from Finland deserves special mention due to its unusually high psilocybin content of 2.37%! Early controlled studies of the psychoactivity of various species in the former Czechoslovakia concluded that Psilocybe semilanceata is a more potently psychoactive species than Psilocybe bohemica, even though both species were found to contain the same amounts of psilocybin. Thus, researchers hypothesized that the mushrooms are likely to As part of dried mushroom material, psilocybin is a remarkably durable substance. A sample of desiccated mushrooms dated 1869 from a Finnish herbarium mail acsystem co jp was still found to contain 0.014% of psilocybin. On the other hand, no alkaloids were founds in another sample dated 1843.
Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to determine the methods used in drying these samples.
Temperatures over 50°C cause psilocybin to break down into its derivatives.
In laboratory settings, mushrooms are usually dried at room temperatures. Sometimes, fruiting bodies are also freeze-dried for analysis.
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