How Long Does It Take For Shrooms To Kick In

How Long Does It Take For Shrooms To Kick In?

Question: How long does it take for shrooms to kick in?

Answer: It depends on a number of factors that we will describe below.

Factors Impacting the Onset and Duration of the Effects of Shrooms

The Type of Shroom You Ate

As we discussed in Understanding and Measuring Magic Mushroom Potency, there is a huge variability in the concentration of psychoactive substances between and ‘shroom genera, species and subspecies. For example, the effects from a species like Psilocybe azurenscens will probably hit you stronger, faster and stay with you longer than any of the Psilocybe cubensis subspecies.

The Form of Ingestion

The form in which you consume shrooms impacts the time of onset of their effects. This is because after you’ve eaten the magic mushrooms, your body enzymatically converts the psilocybin into psilocin. Psilocin is then absorbed from the stomach into the bloodstream. Anything that impacts this process will alter the time of onset.

With old-school dried magic mushrooms, 1–5 grams doses lead to hallucinogenic effects within 30 minutes of ingestion, lasting 4–6 hours.

If you are consuming fresh magic mushrooms, you will need to ingest 10 times more mushrooms than you would with dried shrooms in order to have a similar effect.

Brewing a magic mushroom tea typically speeds up the absorption process as you do not need to digest the mushroom material to release the psychoactive ingredients.

Consuming products that have psilocybin infused, like capsules, gummies or chocolate bars, typically have an onset time in between that of dried mushrooms and tea. The psilocybin has already been extracted, or at least the mushroom itself has been ground down in order to make the product, making them more readily digested.  This is balanced against a certain amount of psychoactive chemical degradation that occurs when they are made, as they are typically heated during the production.

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