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Psychedelic mushroom chocolates and other psilocybin products have shown considerable promise in clinical trials for addiction, mental health, and anxiety. They also produce a fantastic euphoric effect.
The increased focus on the therapeutic advantages of psychedelic mushrooms has resulted in more creative methods of taking mushrooms to maximize their benefits.
One method is to introduce magic mushroom foods such as mushroom-infused chocolates, smoothies, and pills. See our article on creative ways to use magic mushrooms.
Meanwhile, this article will discuss psychedelic mushroom chocolate, including its benefits, legal status, and other details.
What is Magic Mushroom Chocolate?
Chocolates laced with psilocybin or compounds derived from psilocybin mushrooms are known as magic mushroom chocolates. They are one of the few novel approaches to getting psilocybin into our system. Magic mushrooms were prepared as tea or utilized in delicacies prior to the invention of gastronomy.
Psilocybin mushrooms have a bitter or bad taste, which has been disguised in a variety of ways. Shroom chocolates are delicacies that provide the most intense highs or trips.
This is due to the fact that edibles take longer to digest and the psilocybin concentration is slowly delivered into the bloodstream. The effect of magic mushroom edibles should last between 1 and 6 hours on average.
How Magic Mushroom Chocolates Work?
When you take any magic mushroom product, a number of chemical events occur. After consumption, stomach acid reacts with the magic mushroom after mixing it with digestive enzymes.
Stomach acid transforms psilocybin into psilocin. This occurs 20–40 minutes after ingesting psychedelic mushrooms or any psilocybin edibles and can last up to 6 hours. The main ingredient in magic mushrooms is psilocin, which interacts with serotonin receptors to provide a variety of therapeutic benefits.
There are around 15 serotonin receptors, each with a distinct therapeutic role. These receptors regulate biological and neurological processes such as anxiety, appetite, memory, nausea, sleep, cognition, learning, and thermoregulation (internal temperature regulation).
The more psilocybin converted to psilocin there is, the stronger the effect of the shroom chocolates. The product’s psilocybin potency (or concentration) frequently determines this. Because of their higher psilocybin potency, particularly potent strains like penis envy offer a longer trip.
Only around half of all psilocybin consumed is converted to psilocin and circulated throughout the body to exhibit its hallucinogenic effects.
The highest concentration of psilocin is found 80–100 minutes after taking any edible psychedelic substance. Psilocybin that has not been transformed is eliminated in the urine.
After successfully engaging with the receptors, around 65 percent of total psilocin is eliminated in the urine, with the remaining 15-20% secreted in bile and feces. This occurs eight hours after consuming the psilocybin chocolate.
The remaining 10–20% of psilocin in the body is maintained for extended interaction. This is why psilocin is frequently detected in urine seven days after intake.
What are the benefits of Psilocybin Chocolates?
The successful interaction of psilocybin and its sister molecules (psilocin and baeocystin) is fundamental to the activity of magic mushrooms.
Regardless of the mode of consumption or administration, every user hopes to consume a sufficient concentration that will interact with receptors in their bodies to generate one or more effects.
Psilocybin and its sibling compounds have been actively involved in spiritual exercises for at least 12,000 years.
Apart from creating the typical high or sensations of euphoria, several scientists and clinical trials have shown that psilocybin may have therapeutic roles in the following conditions:
- Alcohol dependence
- Stimulant dependence
- Cocaine addiction
- Tobacco addiction
- Nicotine addiction
- Opioid addiction
- Cannabis dependence
- Anxiety disorders like Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and Advanced-stage cancer-related anxiety.
- Cancer-related depression
- Treatment-resistant depression
- Major depressive disorder
- Severe existential depression
- Suicidality (ideation and actual attempts)
- Cluster headaches
- Chronic pain
- Intractable phantom pain
- Demoralization
- Demoralization in older, long-term AIDS survivor men
- Dysfunctional social cognition
- Maladaptive narcissism
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)
- Epilepsy
- Psychopathy
- Emotional dysregulation and violence against one’s partner
- Inflammation
Side effects of Psychedelic Mushroom Chocolates
The side effect of psilocybin mushroom chocolate bars depends on the dosage. Some of the major side effects may include:
- Anxiety
- Dilated pupils
- Distorted sense of time, place, and reality
- Drowsiness
- Euphoria
- Hallucinations (visual or auditory)
- Headaches
- Increased blood pressure
- Increased body temperature
- Increased heart rate
- Lack of coordination
- Muscle weakness
- Nausea and vomiting
- Paranoia
- Psychosis
Microdosing allows users to prevent these adverse effects.Microdosing entails taking very little amounts of hallucinogenic mushrooms. This serves to regulate the amount of Psilocybin accessible for interaction with receptors, hence reducing its effect.
Are Psychedelic Mushroom Chocolate Bars legal?
The legal legality of hallucinogenic mushroom chocolate bars differs by area. Psilocybin and psilocin are classified as Schedule 1 substances under the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
While psilocybin mushrooms have a significant potential for misuse, they also have several therapeutic properties that may be effective in treating a variety of disorders.
Psilocybin mushroom possession, sale, and transportation are allowed in 11 countries, including Austria, the Bahamas, Brazil, Jamaica, and the Netherlands. It is no longer a crime in many parts of the United States.
How to make mushroom chocolates
The most straightforward method of creating a magic mushroom-infused chocolate is as described below.
You will need:
- A thoroughly dried magic mushroom strain of your choice.
- Chocolate bars
- A large saucepan
- A glass bowl
- A sharp knife
- Chocolate moulds (if you don’t have moulds you can use a non-stick baking tray)
Instructions:
- Make sure your magic mushrooms are thoroughly dried.
- Cut the magic mushrooms into small pieces with the sharp knife
- Break your chocolate bars into the glass bowl.
- Create a DIY bain-marie by putting some water in the saucepan and placing your glass bowl on it.
- Heat the saucepan and bring the water to boil. The heat from the boiling will melt the chocolate in the glass bowl.
- Allow the chocolate to cool for a few seconds. This is to protect the Psilocybin from being destroyed by heat.
- Add your finely cut mushrooms to the liquid chocolates
- Stir the chocolate to evenly distribute the mushrooms.
- Carefully pour the mushroom chocolate into the moulds and place it in a fridge to cool and set.
- Enjoy your mushroom chocolate once it is cool.