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Awesome. So the last two years I have asked people if they know anyone with shrooms, I really wanted to quit dipping (Copenhagen tobacco), been dipping for 15 years, and heard this really works.

No one I knew had any leads, not really shocked by that. But I quit dipping anyways, about 6 months ago. Moral of the story: sometimes your friends don't have illegal drugs and you have to suck it up and do right things the hard way. Second moral: having friends that have drugs would have made all this so much easier.

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I like how a lot of the comments assumed you are European since you chew Copenhagen, a US smokeless tobacco company brand.

Defiantly not European and if I where the profiling type I would almost bet money on a) that it's a him and b) him living in my region of the US. If I, am wrong on the second follow-up guess would be northwest plains states. But the stuff was really popular in the South, and in some places for a time more popular than smoking. I grew up on a farm and the cowboys at the feed store would always give me some when I was a kid. It started a life long love-affair that I wish I would have never started. In those cowboys defense, in the 70's Big Tobacco was still convincing people that tobacco was totally safe.

In European Snus is more popular and funny enough due to being water cured has less carcinogenics in it.

More than any other illegal drug mushrooms are the easiest to obtain for someone who’s social network is failing themes.

Between spore syringes and mushroom hunting.

Spore syringes eh? A friend I know does agar tek and then to rye grain, then spawns to an unmodified tub with CVG.. he seems to have a lot of fun with this new and fun hobby!! I could totally see some engineer and tech oriented folk here getting really into it.. Gordotek bulk mushroom cultivation all the way!!

Plus the fruits really are medicinal for the mind body and spirit. It’s so good seeing the world starting to wake up to these natural technologies..

Spore syringes are easy to obtain and simple to grow. Also on Europe it's mushroom season round about now.

They're extremely easy to grow yourself.

You aren't too far from the Netherlands where they sell truffles as far as I understand.

According to this article the therapy isn't a one-time deal. Being able to grab a few shrooms while on vacation wouldn't do the trick.

Sometimes a single session can work. Always have an experienced guide and don’t do it if there is disposition to schizophrenia.

Copenhagen is a brand of dip, not his location, if that is what you are referring to.

Ahh, didn't realise that. What's dip in this context? Rolling cigarettes or something different?

Chewing tobacco.

Not really chewing tobacco, it's moist tobacco that one places between their gums and their lips.

Yeah but it’s _called_ chewing tobacco. Not sure why you corrected the commenter above.

At least in the US, I've never heard dip referred to as chewing tobacco. Only actual chewing tobacco, like the kind that usually comes in pouches.

"Dip" is chewing tobacco. You put it between your cheek and gums, and the nicotine is absorbed through your oral mucosa.

Can you not go and pick them where you are? I thought liberty caps were pretty widespread over Europe

please don’t just go around picking stuff if you don’t absolutely know what you’re doing. it sounds simple but mistakes are extremely costly

Just delete this comment. If you're not an expert on mushrooms, picking mushrooms is basically playing Russian roulette. Telling people to do so is wildly irresponsible.

Precious few mushrooms are truly poisonous.

And I've picked and eaten A LOT of supposedly dangerous ones, as well as other plants; something I suspect most people speaking out on the subject haven't.

As a matter of fact, I just got some red amanitas out of the freezer that I picked a few days ago. I'm going to fry them in butter with onions and garlic and make a lovely shroom sandwich.

Like amanitas, liberty caps have a very distinctive look. Soak them in water for a while if at all unsure, and only eat a small amount to begin with.

The really dangerous stuff is pushed by "science" and the people who come up with this FUD to sell their artificial, truly poisonous and addictive chemical cocktails for awesome profits instead.

I love mushrooms, and pick and enjoy both edible and psychedelic types, but this advice is frankly terrible. Russian roulette indeed.

While I tend to agree with you, it also depends on your region. In the US south you can take one look at the psychedelic mushroom picture that grows here and pretty readily identify it. It also only grows in cow poop, so if you see one that looks like the picture, and it's growing in cow poop it's a magic mushroom.

In other areas it may not be that simple, that being said, it's pretty sage advice to not just go out and pick mushrooms to eat.

Personally I never did them or any other hallucinogen, but helped gather them for my friends when I was a kid. My dad is slightly schizophrenic and everyone says he was never the same after they scored some LSD in the 60's. While I am fine, save some depression and ADD, I figured with the family history why risk it, and with the anxiety disorder that comes from depression the thought of having a panic attack while hallucinating pretty much guarantees that it would happen. The one time I tried pot, was an absolute nightmare and that's not even a true hallucinogenic, just has some properties.

No need to go overboard here.

It's perfectly safe to pick any mushroom. You can take them home, take a spore print, dry them, and carefully identify them with the help of the internet at your leisure.

All that's important is that you know not to eat them until you've done so.

And when you do think you've identified them, and want to eat them, first eat a small amount just to play it safe.

Picking mushrooms is not playing Russian roulette. It's completely harmless, no mushroom kills you on contact, you're being ridiculous.

It's actually a quite fun hobby to forage and collect mushrooms when in season, take them home and try classify them. Even if you just throw them all away afterwards. In the process you've dispersed their spores too.

As the other commenters have said, this is insanely dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

This is always a good read, it's what happens if you do this wrong: https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/11/22/i-survived-the-...

I too would very much recommend people pick and eat the "desriable to eat" kind of mushrooms. If I had to describe what they look like, I'd say it's very similar to the "will kill you horifically" kind of mushrooms.

EDIT: I should say that I mainly said this because I thought it was funny. I actually think it's fine if people to take risks like that if they understand the responsibility and do their own research. I also think it's fine if people occasionally die from things like those, so take that as you will.

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