Here and Now Toronto8:12The reality behind microdosing “magic mushrooms”
When Shannon Chiarenza needs to “dial down the stress” and sort through challenges in her life, she sometimes reaches for a microdose of psilocybin.
“I found it to have been very beneficial for my mental health,” said Shannon Chiarenza, a mother and content creator in Vancouver.
Psilocybin is the active ingredient in magic mushrooms. When Chiarenza takes it, which she started doing three years ago, she uses a very small amount — less than 300 milligrams.
Taking such small amounts of a drug at a time is known as microdosing.
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