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A bad trip can feel like a sudden and long-lasting side effect of a drug. This may occur when taking shrooms alone or with alcohol.

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R ecalling certain ad hoc psychedelic experiments from my college years, I ask Jones how much psilocybin his Miami University bioreactors are capable of cooking up, compared to a baggie of ’shrooms.

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