Last weekend the press reports told of a young man our local long-weekend police gates arrested and subsequently probationed for carrying a chest-pocket amount of this fungi. I'm sleeping so much better now. Absolutely, we don't mind you kids swarming off on bleary-eyed havoc sprees or getting into piss-drunk mass-brawl public knife fights or even stress tensored adults wound tight like the coil of a rifle, them sort is just fine by our local mores and stuff we understand and expect, but dag-blast it, the last thing we need around here is folks like his sort:

"... more than 60 percent of subjects described the effects of psilocybin in ways that met criteria for a 'full mystical experience' as measured by established psychological scales. One third said the experience was the single most spiritually significant of their lifetimes; and more than two-thirds rated it among their five most meaningful and spiritually significant."
[ Spiritual Psilocybin ]

The article, in case you're wondering, goes on into the follow-up studies. These are the sorts of things expected to say, "yes but their brain turns to rot three years later" only, to no surprise to any shaman doctors out there, that is not, of course, what they found. And for those not comfortable taking their news from a website called Reality Sandwich, and I don't blame you, you can also get the very same John Hopkins U followup news from a 'respectable' source. After all, wouldn't surprise me to find the old RS journalists actually dabbling in these things, whereas you know the Reuters will be serious and adult scotch and water journalism all the way.