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Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and recently Russia near the St. Petersburg area. The mushrooms have even been found in Siberia. In some areas, where the mushrooms thrive in abundance, a more comprehensive mode of usage can be observed, without attracting much additional attention over a longer period of time. Costly measures, such as the deployment of helicopters over pastures in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland to flush out mushroom collectors have rarely been used and were quickly abandoned. Switzerland is another country where Psilocybe cubensis is being cultivated and used without attracting much attention. Below is an account provided by a Swiss friend about his first ever experience with this species: Intense, kaleidoscope-like colors are being generated. I begin to dive in and out of other realities, followed by the painful loss of ego, death and life. Suddenly I find myself inside a wooden box. My body is a black mass full of low-level pain. I have the black plague. I was put inside the box, because I was thought to be dead, but I am still alive. I am being carried to and placed on top of cart so that I can be transported to be burned. Few others are being given such a box. At first I am in despair, but then I know that the end is near, anyway. Death is a liberation for me. I remember: I see my house in the city center of Metz, where I used to live until now. Then came the plague. My years of selfish dedication of helping sick, degenerate, stinking, hungry and dying people. I provide comfort and companionship, as well as medication that remains ineffective. I continuously make house calls, there is no end in sight. I become ill myself. At first I deny this fact, but now I am inside this wooden box, in a state of semi-consciousness. I know that the end is here. I know that I am a physician named Claudius Vinzen and that the year is 1427. I wake up in the reality of winter, 1990. Metz, where is Metz Later on, I locate the city on a map of France and until this day, I have been trying to verify if this physician lived there during the Middle Ages. I am reminded of my long years of professional work with criminal and drug-addicted youngsters. I sense the common elements of these two realities (karma), the sacrifices of selfless helping. Such deeply moving experiences do not appear to be unusual (compare to reports of experiences with Psilocybe semilanceata in Chapter 3.1) and should always be studied in all seriousness. Only France seems to engage in elaborate activities designed to locate collectors of psychotropic mushrooms. Despite its grand mycological traditions, France is a country that has a rather absurd prohibition against the exhibition of Psilocybe and Stropharia species (European Stropharia species do not produce psilocybin) at scientific conventions. As a consequence, French mycologists have been avoiding the use of the genus Psilocybe. Nowadays, at mycological conventions, Psilocybes are exhibited under the old name of Geophila (Quelet), which appears to have gotten around the problem of breaking the law. According to my personal communications with mycologists, the usage of Psilocybe semilanceata in Italy began in about 1980/1981 and has been rising steadily since then. At the same time, there have been no clinically relevant cases, nor any legislative action on the matter. Towards the late 1980s, usage of psychoactive Psilocybe species began in the former Czechoslovakia, for instance, around the region of Brno. It appears that Psilocybe bohemica is used more often in this country than Psilocybe semilanceata, as the former species is quite common there. Very little is known about European usage of mushroom species from other genera. In the mid-1980s, Spanish youngsters near Barcelona were observed using Panaeolus mushrooms. The well-known booklet authored by Oss and Oeric about the cultivation of Psilocybe cubensis has been translated into several European languages and published in different countries. It is almost certain that the book is being used as a cultivation guide in Europe, however, there are no available data about the success rate of these experiments. In many cases, commonly occurring contaminants probably prevent fruiting of this subtropical species on rye substrate. I won't risk making predictions about the extent of future usage of indigenous European psychoactive mushroom species, nor am I able to predict which species may or may not gain in
popularity. However, it is possible to speculate that the increased geographic distribution of species such as Inocybe aeruginascens and Psilocybe cyanescens may lead to more unintentional intoxications, which, in turn, may result in creating a generally deeper knowledge base about the attributes of these mushrooms. Figure 57 - A letter from the "Central Bureau of Substance Abuse" in the former East Germany, detailing some legal restrictions on psychoactive plants. At the time (1983), Psilocybe mexicana was not a controlled substance and no restrictions applied to its use.
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JOCHEN GARTZ MAGIC MUSHROOMS Around
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TABLE OF CONTENT (With Active Links
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FOREWORD WHO WAS THE FIRST MAGICIAN
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CHAPTER 1 I BELIEVE THE TIME HAS CO
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semilanceata played an important ro
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eaction to Leary's markedly unortho
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Mr. E Branl, on a poisonous Species
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Stalks generally single, sometimes
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189. Psilocybe semilanceata Fr. [Wo
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a forest clearing between a creek a
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thoughts - later on I discovered th
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Biochemical precursor of psilocybin
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CHAPTER 3.2 PSILOCYBE CYANESCENS -
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from the mycelia. For instance, oth
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Figure 24 - Psilocybe cyanescens at
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however, did not include any rough
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CHAPTER 3.3 PANAEOLUS SUBBALTEATUS
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Page 47 and 48: Figure 32 - Description of Inocybe
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Page 55 and 56: CHAPTER 3.6 CONOCYBE CYANOPUS - TIN
Page 57 and 58: Figure 35 - Sclerotia of Conocybe c
Page 59 and 60: TABLE 10 Psilocybin and Urea Conten
Page 61 and 62: CHAPTER 4 MUSHROOM IDENTIFICATION:
Page 63 and 64: CHAPTER 5 THE BLUING PHENOMENON AND
Page 65 and 66: The Agaricales As Alkaloid Producer
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Page 71 and 72: Figure 43 - Gymnopilus purpuratus f
Page 73 and 74: Figure 46 - Psilocybe semilanceata
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Page 77 and 78: CHAPTER 7 PSYCHOTROPIC MUSHROOM SPE
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Page 87 and 88: CHAPTER 7.4 EUROPEAN CUSTOMS The fi
Page 89: Panic Reactions In cases when intox
Page 93 and 94: CHAPTER 7.5 JAPANESE EXPERIMENTATIO
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Page 99 and 100: Figure 60 - Psilocybe samuiensis on
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Page 105 and 106: short-term and patients experienced
Page 107 and 108: Figure 62 - "Peter Pan in Kensingto
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Page 113 and 114: Figure 64 - Laboratory culture of P
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Page 119 and 120: Figure 71 - Psilocybe stuntzii on m
Page 121 and 122: Zauberpilzen. Helv. Chim. Acta, 42,
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Page 127 and 128: Verrill, A.E. (1914). A recent case
Page 129 and 130: INDEX (With Active Links' Just Clic
Page 131 and 132: Psilocybe spp., 4, 5, 9, 10-12, 14-
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