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Psilocybin

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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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