The first time Loumir*, a 29-year-old graphic designer living in London, took psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, the drug was mixed into chocolate and shaped like a KitKat bar. The man who made and sold them at an east London converted warehouse, where about 70 people live and work, had put in a lot of effort. “There was the KitKat stamp on the chocolate and realistic packaging, with the foil and everything. It was quite impressive.”
Other enthusiasts drink teas, eat dried mushrooms or cook them into food, or chew up truffles that arrive vacuum sealed for freshness. Others blitz mushrooms to powder and press them into pills, not unlike other chemical party drugs such as MDMA, though supposedly with less of the negative after effects.
