
Distorted or irregular thought patterns.Feeling a sense of connection, but disengagement, from the objects and people that surround the user, this is also known as depersonalization.A growing feeling of detachment to the current reality, or feeling as if it is not fully real, also known as derealization.Euphoria and feelings of unity with everything around them.The effects felt or experienced by the user are largely similar to LSD, and include altering the perception of the user to large degrees, as well as changes in mood, expression, and feelings. In the largest number of cases, however, it is used in a decidedly recreational fashion. Even though the ritual use dates back thousands of years in South American cultures. There has been some experimental medical use with limited acceptance in the US, mostly for treating headaches, hospice anxiety, depression disorders, and other anxiety disorders. The amount of psilocybin found in the dried mushrooms is concentrated more than ten times compared to the amount found in fresh liberty caps. The potency of liberty caps will depend on several factors, including the species of mushroom, its origins or where it was grown, the growing conditions, the maturity or harvest period, and whether the user will consume them in a fresh or dried state. There are also people that will dry and crush the liberty caps and either encapsulate them in predetermined dosages or mix them into chocolate bars. Most people will consume their liberty caps as part of a prepared and brewed tea, while others will incorporate it into a food item to mask the unpleasant taste. The other dangers and risks are often attributed to the potency or the dosage ingested. This is becoming increasingly rare, thankfully, due to the increased efforts of police and legislators in preventing lookalike sales of poisonous mushrooms. This leads many people who would not otherwise jeopardize their safety, to do so, sometimes with a tragic outcome. One of the main dangers is the misidentification of the mushroom initially. Dangers & Risks Associated With Taking Liberty Caps In rare cases this change in perception can actually last for days after consumption, often leading to a significant effect on the life of the user. After this, the effects will increase to a plateau, where they will remain for approximately 4-6 hours following the dosing. Once ingested liberty caps can take effect and enter the system in about 30 minutes.

They often experience relatively large degrees of distorted perception for several hours after ingestion. It differs by affecting and distorting how people that are on the drug perceive the reality around them. Unlike LSD, liberty caps do not always cause significant visual hallucinations. The main psychoactive component in liberty caps, psilocybin, works on the portion of the brain that helps regulate both arousal and panic responses to different stimuli. They were studied much more in-depth in the 1960s, where a Swiss scientist first identified the psilocybin compound in a European mushroom variety.

Liberty caps have been known and documented as an intoxicant since 1799 when they were first ingested by a British family. They are mistaken for these poisonous varieties relatively often, and many times result in a fatality. They have a number of unique visual identifiers, but since they resemble many other potentially deadly mushroom species, they should not be sought in nature despite their wide distribution. They have a very generic appearance, featuring bell-shaped or even conical caps with a small protrusion at the very top. They produce a pair of potent psychoactive hallucinogenic compounds psilocybin and baeocystin and are one of the most widely occurring hallucinogenic mushrooms in nature as well as one of the most potent. Psilocybe semilanceata is a species of mushroom commonly known as liberty caps.
