At least 48 people in 24 states said they got sick after eating Diamond Shruumz-brand products, including chocolate bars, cones and gummies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
One death is “potentially associated” with the outbreak and 27 people have been hospitalized, the agency said. People who fell ill reported severe symptoms like seizures, agitation, abnormal heart rates and loss of consciousness. The latest illness was reported Monday, FDA officials said.
Prophet Premium Blends LLC, of Santa Ana, California, recalled all of its Diamond Shruumz products late last month because they contain muscimol, a psychoactive chemical found in potentially toxic Amanita mushrooms that may be tied to the illnesses.
The products are marketed for microdosing, which means taking very small doses of a psychedelic drug to achieve supposed benefits while minimizing negative side effects.
Once again people are selling amanita muscaria and marketing it as “shrooms” because other people are idiots and can’t tell the difference or do a quick search to figure out that what they’re taking has zero psilocybin in it.
Gas station drugs are not safe and effective?!?
Facebook drugs. That’s where they’re selling a lot of these.
Ketamine too.
WTF are you talking about? Can you buy shrooms from the Pharmacy, or do you think handshake transactions downtown are somehow safer than gas stations?
I suppose if you want drug dealers who are overly concerned with your welfare, you can always go to CVS and get the safe drugs from Purdue Pharma.
I trust traditional drug dealers more than gas stations.
For sure. If you’re buying psychedelics from someone, especially someone you know, they’re probably using the drugs as much as you are.
Which is more than can be said about a gas station which is just as well regulated by the state.
I thought that said “candles” and was very confused for a while.
I really hope these aren’t the shrooms my brother is using because he went from microdosing to taking massive doses (without anyone making sure he’s okay). Knowing him, I doubt he’s buying something he has to get illegally.
Unfortunately, I’m still the little brother who was 5 or 6 when he went off to college (I was planned, really), so he never listens to me about anything.
It’s the quasi-legal framework I would be worried about here. Without federal legalization and regulation, you have a patchwork set of rules companies like this operate under that just don’t offer any real protection.
If he’s getting them illegally, there are tons of providers that have good(cultivation) practices… it’s just hard to find one if you don’t already have a connection. Growing mushrooms is easy… just not legal in most places.
I am almost certain he is just ordering something he saw in an ad. He is super paranoid and anxious.
But honestly, I’m tired of hearing about how the huge doses of mushrooms he’s taking have allowed him to separate himself from his own identity and become humanity as a whole. Honestly, after the first massive dose he took when he said he told his wife to watch him and then said she fell asleep but he was fine, so it didn’t matter, I stopped paying too much attention. There’s no point worrying about it if he won’t listen to me anyway. He’s an adult, he’s almost 50. It’s his life. He has never really wanted me to contribute much to it anyway beyond just generally keeping in touch.
And he shouldn’t be taking huge doses for the sake of huge doses. It’s not about quantity, it’s about experience. If you want to walk on the edge, you should have someone that wants to walk on the edge with you. He shouldn’t be asking for babysitters. It’s fine to want to experiment, but that shouldn’t become someone else’s responsibility or journey.
I’m not sure if you want to encourage or discourage, but you can find labs where you can legally purchase mushrooms spores, then other sites where you can buy grow bags that take the majority of the effort and chance of failure out of the equation. It’s legal and not a hard thing to find. If you grow them for ingestion… that’s illegal. If you grow them for research and educational value… that’s not illegal, so they can sell to the public.
I’ve grown for personal use your free and on for years. Pick up a couple stringers of spores and a few grow bags and you can control the process. It’s not 100% efficient, so expect 1 out of 3 bags to work, more or less, on the first attempt…
But you should be able to put together an attempt for 50-60$, and it’s a learning experience, if nothing else.
I would suggest everyone tries a reasonable amount of Sharon’s at one point or another in their lives. It’s not quite an out-of-body experience, but it lets you look at your own life through another lens to see what really resonate with you and your desires on how you live.
I’d love to discourage him from using these legal but dangerous gummies and use the illegal, but essentially safe, shrooms, but like I said, he never listens to me.
