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Originally Posted by Piss Me Off
Shoot me down if i'm wrong but i would have thought the effects caused by magic mushrooms were due to a sort of poison?
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The psychotropic agent in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, isn't particularly toxic or poisonous. Without the presence of any other toxins, it would take approximately 1.7 kg of shrooms to achieve the lethal overdose level (that's $20,000 worth of shrooms, in case you want to try). Other mushrooms billed as "magic mushrooms" can contain psychoactive tryptamines, which are lethal even in small doses.
The key is being able to identify the difference between a real shroom and a poisonous one that has psychoactive properties.