On the front page of the Sunday paper was a headline proclaiming that, 'Magic Mushrooms could help treat people with severe depression.' How times have changed!
In the educational establishments that nurtured me through my teens, the consumption of such fungi was deemed to be an offence worthy of explusion. Tales abounded regarding the best placed neck of the woods to find such food - the school canteens weren't up to much - and the brave ventured forth to gather in the harvest. Whether real or imagined, psychedelic bubbles in the sky and floating about on heavenly clouds whilst watching morphing shapes were said to be the beneficial effects of such bounty.
One wonders whether the current crop of adventurous students will be found, broadsheet newspaper in hand, proclaiming to headteachers up and down the land that their depressive state necessitated the use of this medicinal foodtype!
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