Negative Space: mushrooms
- The Compleat Psilocybin Mushroom Cultivator’s Bible
- Psilocin and psilocybin are among the most potent naturally-occuring psychoactive substances and the least toxic.
- General Considerations
- We take drugs because we have achieved our cultural goals. We are at the “end of a myth” and are searching for a new one.
- Growing Wild Mushrooms
- Bob Harris’s “Complete Guide to Cultivating Edible and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms” seems to be very step-by-step, and comes with good color pictures.
- The Indoles
- DMT, ibogaine, and psilocybin/psilocin make up the wide variety of hallucinogens classified as indoles.
- Other
- PCP was originally used as a tranquilizer; when physicians noted that it had problematic side effects in humans, it was repositioned as an animal tranquilizer.
- Psilocybin Cultivation
- F. C. Gould’s cultivation book covers quite a bit of ground. Gould makes the interesting observation that black market forces result in the more powerful LSD being much more popular than psilocin.
- Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide
- O. T. Oss & O. N. Oeric have written an easy-to-follow book on growing psilocybin mushrooms. Some of the description is a bit rich, however, though that befits a guide to growing shrooms.
- Shroom information
- General information about psychedelic mushrooms.
- Some Minor Hallucinogens
- The amanita mushroom is fairly powerful but hard to find. Nutmeg, on the other hand, is everywhere and requires so much that it is practically poisonous in the amounts necessary to achieve a high.
