The Psilocybin Producers Guide

file:///F|/{E-MULE%20SHARE/Cannabis%20&%20Shrooms/Psilocybin%20Producers%20Guide.txt THE PSILOCYBIN PRODUCERS GUIDE -----How to produce 5000 doses of organic psilocybin in a small room every week -----by Adam Gottlieb 1976 INTRODUCTION If a person knows what he is doing, It's not difficult to cultivate the mycelium of any of the psychoactive psilocybin bearing mushrooms. The mycelium is the fibrous underground network of the mushroom. The familiar stem and cap portions of the mushrooms are called carpophores. The mycelium can be readily grown in ordinary Mason jars in a low cost medium in 10 to 12 days and the active materials (psilocybin and psilocin) can be easily extracted. This Guide shows how to carry out all of these steps on a small or a large scale. Complete instructions are given for locating the mushrooms, developing stock cultures for inoculation, cultivating, harvesting, and drying the mycelium, extracting the active alkaloids, and using the existing cultures to seed new cultures to keep an ongoing psilocybin farm yielding a regular crop of the hallucinogenic mycelium. We also give directions for setting up in a small workroom a large scale psilocybin factory which can produce at least 5,000 doses of the drug every week. PSILOCYBIN AND THE LAW The present drug laws are a pathetic mess. The old adage that ignorance of the law is no excuse becomes a ludicrous statement when the laws themselves are rooted in ignorance. One classical example of this is the classification of the stimulant Cocaine as a narcotic. One is file:///F|/{E-MULE%20SHARE/Cannabis%20&%20Shrooms/Psilocybin%20Producers%20Guide.txt (1 of 19)8/29/2004 3:04:08 AM file:///F|/{E-MULE%20SHARE/Cannabis%20&%20Shrooms/Psilocybin%20Producers%20Guide.txt reminded of the King in Alice in Wonderland who made up his own language as he went along with total disregard for the accepted definitions of words. I will not even go into the question of whether any law enforcement agency has the moral or Constitutional right to dictate what substances we may or may not take into our own adult bodies. Any modern individual whose mind is not immersed in the slavish dung pit of Dark Age unreasoning knows that reliable education - not criminal penalization - is the answer to whatever drug problems exist. Nevertheless, we must contend realistically with the powers that unfortunately be at this time. They are the ones with the badges, guns, gavels and goons. Because of the afore mentioned ignorance of our lawmakers it is difficult to determine how the use of certain hallucinogenic substances would be treated in the courts. Possession of psilocybin and psilocin (misspelled in the U.S. Code as psilocyn) is a felony under Title 21, Section I, (C) of the United States Code (1970 Edition). Psilocybe Mexicana is also illegal. There was sufficient ignorance on the part of the lawmakers not to include the many other mushroom species containing psilocybin and psilocin. Theoretically the possession of any psilocybin bearing mushroom would be the same as possessing the alkoloid itself. But when it comes to prosecution it does not necessarily work like that. Lysergic acid amides, which occur in morning glory seeds, stems, and leaves are also illegal, but there is no way to prevent gardeners from raising this ornamental flower. It is also illegal for anyone in th