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Turns out, 'magic' mushrooms are responsible for the lowest percentage of emergency ward visits, followed by cannabis in second place, and LSD and cocaine in joint third place.
At the other end of the chart, methamphetamine, synthetic cannabis, and alcohol carried the most risk of a trip to the local emergency ward, leaving MDMA (ecstasy) and amphetamines in the middle of the drug safety table.
The survey took in responses from 115,523 people across more than 50 countries. Nearly 10,000 participants said they had tried magic mushrooms in the past year, with 0.2 percent of those needing a trip to the hospital after their drug-induced trip.
That was the lowest percentage figure in the survey by some distance, but researchers are keen to point out that no drug use is entirely harmless - and there are plenty of other risks associated with drugs that don't necessarily land you in hospital.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @11:39PM (1 child)
https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_info4.shtml [erowid.org]
https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_dose.shtml [erowid.org]
Most people grow them in ideal conditions indoors instead of picking them outside. Almost all of the shrooms people grow are Psilocybe cubensis variants with about 0.6% of psilocybin and psilocin by weight. You can dry them, grind them, and insert the contents into empty gel caps. If you eat them fresh instead, 10 grams fresh = 1 gram dry. You experiment with the dose, but anything under 2 grams dry is closer to "just a bit shroomy". Closer to 5 grams dry and up = you better know what you're doing.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @11:50PM
to me there is a weird uncomfortable region between . 5 and .8g. I find a +3g trip "my mind is melting into the universe and I am a retard " more enjoyable than the introspection from hell I get from low dose