There are bound to be wild psychoactive mushrooms near you. Do some research and then do some bushwalking (or hiking if you prefer). Mushroom hunting is cathartic.

https://www.shroomery.org/8461/Which-psilocybin-mushrooms-gr...

never taken mushrooms but been mushroom foraging for food purposes and well, it has to be said: be very, very careful with this stuff. Pick the wrong mushroom and it can and will kill you, and it may be very, very difficult to distinguish the right one and the wrong one. Do things like spore prints, and read books carefully with every specimen.

Don't want folks getting hurt

I can strongly recommend Alan Rockefeller's fantastic talks on psilocybin mushroom identification: [1] [2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcL-7u80kjs

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pInqVRRva7M

This is a good way to maim or kill yourself.

> I was considered traveling from San Francisco to Oregon or Colorado (?) where I think psychedelic mushrooms were legalized and you don't need to "know people" to get them.

They're not legalized anywhere in the US. Oregon legalized them for supervised mental health treatment, which is still a far cry from the kind of legalization you're envisioning.

It's basically just decriminalized in a handful of states. Which doesn't mean you're finding shrooms on the shelves of smoke shops and dispensaries next to the whippets cartridges.

Just buy spores, they are legal.

If you want to be under the radar go ahead. It is a strict controlled substance. Spores are just loopholes but can't be sure if you don't get a visit one day.

I imagine growing spores with the knowledge that you can grow mushrooms that can be used for psychedelics from them is similarly illegal to buying/growing poppy flowers knowing that they can be used for opium.

It's only legal if you don't know -- a thought crime

Hard drugs and research chemicals are ordered and sent daily via mail, and the only people getting vists are the vendors. I highly doubt anyone cares enough about john doe ordering some spores to put him on a list or show up at his home.

I am in a conservative EU country and you can legally buy spores and growkits since forever here, nobody cares. You have to find specialized shops because there is not even enough demand.

That's what vendors will tell you but customers get visits from customs all the time. And in that unfortunate case you'll get charged with contraband plus everything they'll get on you on top of that. You probably won't have proper opsec and your house will be searched and electronics will be confiscated, plus there will be some surveillance prior to that. I'm not talking specifically about spores here, more about general onion shopping. Its easy to get in the mindset that nobody cares about a user but if you get unlucky your life will take quite a hit.

What country are you living in that has enough money to surveill average joe and kick in his door because he orders some small quantity of drugs? If you want to get dozents of users on the hook for possesion you could just raid a random nightclub, that's a thing that actually happens - but even that is rare.

You can buy them in Oakland at Zide Door. Though my friend told me they also saw them for sale at an Oakland head shop. I’m not sure which one. Also last time I went to Dolores Park on a sunny day, multiple people walking by offered to sell me shroom chocolates.

> I was considered traveling from San Francisco to Oregon or Colorado (?) where I think psychedelic mushrooms were legalized and you don't need to "know people" to get them.

Yes, Colorado just passed Prop 122. https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_122,_Decriminal...

But it's not "legalized" in the way that weed is "legalized". It's "legalized" in that it's no longer an offense to purchase/obtain/possess/use shrooms; but it's still a crime to sell shrooms (except for supervised mental health treatment), so you still need to "know people" to get them.