its entirely possible to smoke mushrooms. however virtually -all- of the active components will be destroyed by the heat, so you wont get ANYTHING more than the very slightest of buzzes, if that even. also it will taste terrible and be extremely harsh.
i wasnt planning on doing it but in health class we had to research a drug and some report for how bad drugs were talked about a guy smoking shrooms laced with acid. at first i laughed at it but my friend said it was possible so here i was
its somewhat possible to get SOME kind of weak buzz off of mushrooms because they contain a plethora of alkaloids other than the psilocin and psilocybin which would be destroyed almost instantly by the temperatures needed to smoke them. for instance, some psilocybian mushrooms have been shown to contain DMT, which is usually smoked by users of this drug. however, these other substances occur in miniscule amounts which are NOT likely to have any noticible effect when smoked. LSD is far more heat sensitive than these other drugs even. smoking mushrooms laced with LSD would only be more expensive, you'd get nothing more out of them than smoking just plain mushrooms. hell, LSD would break down with far LESS heat than required for smoking....
Ya another scare tactic. If you smoked shrooms laced with acid nothing would happen, youd be soooooo fucking sober youd blow your head off, just to get rid of the stupidity that has manifested itself in your skull.
why would shrooms be laced with acid anyhow...as far as shrooming goes, i'd advise growing my own or picking my own then doing spore prints.
culinary mushrooms can be dried, laced with lsd, and sold to customers in instances where mushrooms are harder to get and more expensive than acid. this isn't common these days, but it did occasionally happen back in the days before mushroom cultivation was so widespread, and people could identify more than 2 or 3 types of wild mushrooms that contained psilocybin. we now know of far more active species of mushrooms, and almost all of them can be cultivated at home or on a commercial scale as well. knowledge isn't as widespread as that of marijuana growing, and the operations are far easier to cover up in most cases. LSD didn't used to be as scarce as it is in most places today. its common to see acid go for 10+ dollars per hit in many areas, even for mediocre acid. it's only worth 2-3 bucks for a STRONG hit..... back when acid was very common and cheap and mushrooms were an exotic luxury, people could get burned this way. in the 80s there were reports of gourmet mushrooms dried and laced with PCP as well, if i'm not mistaken. at least one instance of fake laced mushrooms allegedly involved a dealer actually buying into the myth that LSD requires strychnine to bind to blotter paper. assuming this was true, he assumed it was a good idea to put strychnine in the liquid LSD he was using to dose the mushrooms. obviously this is a very, very bad idea. now i doubt how true this story may be because it would take only a tiny amount of acid but a lot of strychnine. the only way this would work was if a poisonous liquid solution were added to "cut" the liquid acid and a large enough amount to deliver several mgs at least was put on the mushrooms. who knows... anyway, theres all sorts of things fake mushrooms could be cut with to rip off unwary customers, but that doesn't happen much these days. people know more about what they're looking for, and LSD is more expensive than mushrooms in general (or at least much more rare) and PCP isn't too common either... besides, gourmet mushrooms are more common in grocery stores, too, and people would too readily recognize fake mushrooms as something you can buy at meijer or kroger. but thats where stories of laced mushrooms come from....its happened before, though i doubt that its very common these days.
btw, as for smoking mushrooms, there are many anecdotal reports that suggest Amanita muscaria mushrooms as being active when smoked, but then they do not contain any tryptamine alkaloids such as psilocin and psilocybin, and will produce VERY different effects. these are said to be more of a deliriant effect, and in large amounts they can become poisonous. though they will not kill you in "normal" doses and have a very long history of use in indigenous religious ceremonies around the world, they are still poisonous in larger doses and in smaller doses are thought to still be hard on your body, possibly posing a risk of hepatoxicity. smoking tends to change the effects somewhat. the red skin on the cap is said to be the best part to smoke, and some people have said it gets to be somewhat akin to cannabis if you dont overdo it. i can't vouch for it as i've not done it, but among the chief components are muscarine, and i once perused a list of chemicals known to exist in the cannabis plant, and it said that trace amounts of muscarine are present. not enough to cause the similarity though, i'm sure. the A. muscaria, or the fly agaric, is largely considered to be poisonous. it's not surprising despite the long, long history of human consumption. it got it's common name "fly agaric" from its use as an insecticide. when left sitting out in a bowl of milk, the chemicals would seep into the milk and flies would be attracted to the milk and then die from the mushrooms. many other amanita species ARE extremely potent poisons. even though consuming a reasonable dose of fly agaric will NOT kill you, it will produce a strange "toxic" drug effect. this would be cause to think of it as poison by the general medical system as it is, let alone reports of toxicity in very large quantities. as far as i know, however, there is no verified report of death involving it, except a possible case involving a small child (i dont know if it's true or not, and in fact there may be several well known cases i'm oblivious of) but the point is literally THOUSANDS of people have used this drug without dying, many of them using it many times in their lives for spiritual purposes. and it is a mushroom. and it can be smoked. so there ARE mushrooms that you can smoke and "get high"/"trip." just not what people generally identify as "magic mushrooms"
