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Mushrooms are a type of hallucinogenic drug, found in Central America and Mexico. What makes these mushrooms so addictive is psilocybin, and psilocybin contains psychoactive and hallucinogenic compounds that are found in the mushroom. Mushrooms are usually called "shrooms", "caps", or "Magic Mushrooms", but have many more slang names. There are 2 types of Mushrooms that people mainly use, Liberty Caps (Psilocybe semilanceata) and Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria). There are more types of mushrooms that contain the drug, but these 2 are the most commonly used out of them all. The Liberty Caps are tan-colored, small, long, and thin type of fungus, while The Fly Agaric look like a typical red toadstool with a white stem and white spots, but both of these mushrooms are hard to tell apart from similar looking mushrooms, which people mistake for the Mushrooms Drug, and they eat the mushroom, which causes them to get very sick and/or die.

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Shrooms
Liberties
Amani
Mushies
Blue Meanies
Golden Tops
Liberty Caps
Philosopher's Stone
Agaric

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The drug Mushrooms is currently illegal in the USA, and is a Schedule I drug, which means that you cannot sell, use this drug, or give it away. If you are caught using the drug, you will be sent up to 7 years in prison, or an unlimited fine, or both. Even supplying your friends with this drug can lead you to life in prison, an unlimited fine, or both. If you are caught driving under the influence of this drug, you will be either, banned from driving, a heavy fine, or a prison sentence.

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A link to an interesting YouTube video about Mushrooms

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The History of Magic Mushrooms | Donnie Does History

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The history of the mushroom drug is rather quite interesting. The drug was used in ceremonies and therapies thousands of years ago in Mesoamerican societies. They were also used in ancient Greece as a medicine, but if you were found consuming or using that drug, you would get the death penalty, and you had to use them in secrecy. The mushrooms were used in ceremonies of the harvest cycle.  But these two countries weren't the only ones using the mushrooms. They have been found in rock paintings of people using them, and historians believe people used them to communicate with the gods. In the 1950's, Gordon Wasson, a banker, went on a vacation to Central America and found the Magic Mushrooms. He wrote a book about them and how they will help develop our brains and advance in technology and language. His book was titled "Seeking the Magic Mushroom" and thus, the name Magic Mushroom was born. The book caught on quickly and many people took interest of it. The psychedelic drugs were used during the hippie movement, and the drug war began, causing president Nixon to put a ban on the Mushrooms Drug.

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Mushrooms have a few ways of getting into your body, and these ways are eating them raw, eating them dried, they are brewed, and they can be drinked as tea.

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Eating Magic Mushrooms make you:
Dizzy
Get Stomach Pains
Sick
Get Diarrhea
Paranoia
Muscle Spasms
anxiety
and much, much, more.

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When you take this drug, it will take about 30-90 minutes for most types of mushrooms, but some of them are different. when the drugs to kick in, your body feels excited, giggly, in awe at everything, euphoric, and energized. While that is happening, the world around them gets distorted. Objects look like something else, colors seem different, and some sounds may also be different as well. These are the effects that most people use mushrooms, but these are not always the case. Some people may a experience a "bad trip" which means they will experience feeling paranoid, anxious, panicked, feel like vomiting, and feeling overwhelmed. These effects can last up to 12 hours depending on the type of mushroom you consume.

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“The History of Magic Mushrooms.” Field Trip Health, www.fieldtriphealth.com/blog/the-history-of-magic-mushrooms.
“Psilocybin Mushrooms Addiction, Abuse, and Treatment.” Addiction Center, 18 Sept. 2020, www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/hallucinogens/psilocybin-mushrooms/.

“Magic Mushrooms.” FRANK, www.talktofrank.com/drug/magic-mushrooms#the-risks.

“Mushrooms: Risks, Signs of Use & What Parents Should Know.” Partnership to End Addiction, 9 Dec. 2020, drugfree.org/drugs/mushrooms/.
Elizabeth Hartney, BSc. “Magic Mushrooms: Everything You've Been Afraid to Ask.” Verywell Mind, 10 Apr. 2020, www.verywellmind.com/what-are-magic-mushrooms-22085.

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The usage of this drug on teens is low, as the  psychedelics type of drug isn't a popular type of drug. The usage from the age group of 12-17, about 0.3% of the 11,643 responders of a survey, where on a  psychedelic drug, and about half of the people using the  psychedelic drug were on Mushrooms. So thankfully the number of users is low, but we can't know for sure how many teens and young adults are using this drug.

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There used to be a study during the late 20th century seeing if we could use the mushroom psychedelics as a medical treatment. The experiments were perfectly legal, and were largely funded, until the drug was banned in the 1970's. The scientists and researchers wanted to find if these drug could be used as therapy, and they did find some connections with specific types of mental disorders. But now, scientists mainly use this drug to understand it better, and to research the harmful affects it has to the human body. Currently, there are no medical uses for this drug.