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Fortune
Beth Greenfield

Legal mushroom gummies found to contain illegal hallucinogens

several colorful packages of Diamond Shruumz products on orange background (Credit: Courtesy of FDA)

The spell has been broken on some magic mushrooms this week, as poison control experts at the University of Virginia Medical Center have just announced they’ve found illegal, potentially harmful ingredients in legal "brain-health" mushroom gummies widely sold at smoke shops and convenience stores. 

Among the unexpected findings, prompted by five emergency-room visits, were psilocybin and psilocin, the two active and illegal components of psychedelic mushrooms.

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