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Psilocybin

From National Institute on Drug Abuse, for About.com

Updated: November 24, 2003

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Category: Hallucinogens.
Commercial and Street Names: Magic mushroom, purple passion, shrooms.
How Administered: Swallowed.
Intoxication Effects and Potential Health Consequences: Altered states of perception and feeling; nausea/chronic mental disorders, persisting perception disorder (flashbacks), nervousness, paranoia

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