Gummies ... for dummies?

[wachumacallit]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2838765?resultClick=1

 

The use of psilocybin mushrooms is legal under regulated conditions in Oregon and Colorado, but to ensure safety, psilocybin-containing products require standardization and production using current Good Manufacturing Practices. However, unregulated products marketed as magic mushroom edibles (eg, gummies and chocolates) often contain no psilocybin and instead contain muscimol from Amatina muscaria, synthetic tryptamines, or other adulterants. During 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 180 emergency cases, 73 hospitalizations, and 3 deaths associated with these products in 34 states.² This study analyzed the constituents of unregulated magic mushroom commercial products.

[ehteam]

My email address was hijacked from an Association I was involved with about 6 years ago, by a company selling gummies, they still send them and they go straight to spam. 

Edited September 12, 2025 by Wood Chuck

[saguaro]

That 'diamond shruumz' saga last year was pretty crazy. An Australian business was importing and selling gummies with muscimol and 4-AcO-DMT in em as 'lionsmane' and 'cordyceps', resulting in a  few hospitalisations and poisonings.

 

In theory they are relatively safe and have potential therapeutic benefit, but in practice all sorts of things can happen from children or animals eating them, being way too heavily dosed or black market ones containing a variety of drugs etc. etc.

 

I think the key word here is 'unregulated'. If people who wanted to access psilocybin gummies could access them in the same way you can access safe, accurately dosed cannabis edibles in dispensaries in legal countries, there wouldn't be much incentive for opportunists to pass off synthetic tryptamines and muscimol gummies.

Edited September 16, 2025 by saguaro

[saguaro]

 

Edited September 16, 2025 by saguaro