Oakland’s Church of Ambrosia says mushroom potency is rising fast, and its new psilocybin calculator aims for fewer “Naked Ninja” emergencies.
The Old Eighth-of-Shrooms Rule Is Dead
It may be time to sunset the old college rule of eating 3.5 grams of mushrooms and holding on for the ride.
Folks taking magic mushrooms for depression, trauma, addiction, creativity, or just fun on a Saturday night have a new tool to help get exactly as high as they want amid an era of rising mushroom potency.
Online now, the world’s biggest mushroom church, the Church of Ambrosia in Oakland, has released a potency calculator that acts as a trip advisor of sorts.
Why? They’ve dealt with one too many people losing all touch with reality and trying to literally run naked through the streets. So they’ve pioneered large-scale potency testing of real-world mushroom strains and products. They’ve correlated dosage to trip states, and released the findings as an open-source calculator on the web and on GitHub.
You put in your weight and the type of mushroom, and it’ll tell you how much to eat to have a light microdose, or step it all the way up to having a “breakthrough” experience with interdimensional entities.
The Church of Ambrosia’s open-source psilocybin dosage calculator. (Courtesy Church of Ambrosia)
Why Mushroom Potency Is Suddenly a Harm Reduction Issue
The project addresses a persistent issue in mushroom therapy: if you have too much cannabis, you’ll just pass out. Eat too much of the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, and you might meet the devil.
“You might see some shit you’re not ready for,” said Dave Hodges, church leader and former medical cannabis dispensary owner in San Jose.
Hodges relates a “terrifying experience” during a shroom overdose …
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Author: David Downs / High Times
