So I'm relatively new to the whole hallucinogenic mushroom world, and am hoping to get into it more. I am actually wondering what would honestly be easier/safer out of either getting some spores and setting up some home grown method, or trekking into some local bushland in search for some. I've been doing a fair bit of reading on the subject of Mushroom identification (Noting minute details of the environments found, taking spore prints etc etc) but am still not confident enough that I won't be poisoning myself and others with the mushrooms I find and identify. That's why I'm leaning towards growing some myself, by finding a reliable strain of spores that I know 100% are edible. However, this method leaves me feeling uneasy. If I was discovered by police doing this I could be charged with manufacture of an illegal substance, right? What are the chances?
Is wild mushroom identification as dangerous as I've heard and been reading about? Even when you're quite knowledgeable in what you're looking for?
For instance I heard of one Mycologist who had had his stomach pumped twice by ingesting wrongly identified mushrooms.