Mushrooms

Hallucinogens alter how the brain perceives time, reality, and the environment around you. They also affect the way you move, react to situations, think, hear, and see. This may make you think that you're hearing voices, seeing images, and feeling things that don't exist.

The impact of hallucinogens varies from time to time, so there is no way to know how much self-control you might maintain. They can cause you to mix up your speech, lose control of your muscles, make meaningless movements, and do aggressive or violent things.

Street names/slang terms:
Caps, magic mushrooms, shrooms, psilocybin, psilocin

Drug Type:
Certain types of naturally occurring mushrooms contain hallucinogenic chemicals-psilocybin and psilocin.

What does it look like?
Dried mushrooms.

How is it used?
Mushrooms can be eaten, brewed and consumed as tea.

Short-term Effects:
• intoxication
• hallucinations
• increased blood pressure
• nausea
• distorted perceptions, nervous feeling, paranoia
• sweating

Long-term Effects:
• flashbacks

Source: Partnership for a Drug-Free America, FDA