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Originally Posted by rubecube
Well theoretically if someone gave you the wrong type of mushrooms it could kill you but I get your point.
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Take the source for what it's worth, but there are two recorded instances of magic mushrooms leading to death. One of them was in a heart transplant patient.
https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushro...ms_death.shtml
According to the CDC, between 2006-10, roughly 88,000 people died due to excessive alcohol consumption in the United States alone. That's 60 people a day.
http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm
Mushrooms are very clearly not for everyone - they still intimidate the hell out of me, and I've done them eight or nine times by now.
They aren't a guaranteed good time drug. That's for sure. Maybe they cause psychotic breaks in rare cases. But they aren't a drug you lose your life to, figuratively or otherwise. I can't make that claim about weed - you could waste a ton of your life down a bong if you were so inclined. And many people do. Do daily mushroom users even exist? I don't see how they could, but I'm sure there are a few freaks out there.
So in the grand scheme of consciousness-altering substances, I stand by my position of 'virtually no downside' regarding mushrooms.