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Magic mushrooms 'are actually safer than cannabis', new study finds
So-called ‘magic’ mushrooms contain a powerful natural hallucinogen which gives users trips lasting for hours – during which they can hallucinate.
But taking the mushrooms – which grow wild in the UK – is actually safer than smoking cannabis, according to a new study.
In fact, mushrooms are the safest of all drugs people take recreationally, according to the Global Drug Survey.
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Out of 12,000 people who reported using the drug, just 0.2% were hospitalised – a rate five times lower than MDMA or LSD.
By contrast, 0.6% of cannabis users were hospitalised, the survey of 120,000 drug users in 50 countries found.
‘Magic mushrooms are one of the safest drugs in the world,’ Adam Winstock, founder of the Global Drug Survey, saying that one of the biggest risks is picking the wrong mushrooms.
‘Death from toxicity is almost unheard of with poisoning with more dangerous fungi being a much greater risk in terms of serious harms.’
