Microdosing magic mushrooms with… Mom…
Question: “Do you feel safe talking to me, talking in front of our cameras about this?” Answer from Mikaela: “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t feel safe.” Question: “As you know being pregnant there’s so many rules or so called rule with what you can’t eat, what you can’t drink, what you can eat, what you can drink. Were those concerns for you when you started microdosing [psilocybe mushrooms] while pregnant?“
Answer: So I think that’s a great question because there is so much stigma placed on moms about anything they choose to do, even listening to certain kinds of music when you’re pregnant, right? That’ll hurt the baby, you can’t even pick up something, like, that’ll hurt the baby. So you know, of course, of course I was facing that. I was also facing it within my own family. I have a partner. I have a fiance of seven years and like I had to work with this with him and say, no in my gut I’m feeling like this could be really helpful for me and I also need to reach out to someone for permission so I’m grateful that I have a connection to a community elder that has had a long life relationship with these mushrooms. She comes from a tribe in Mexico where psilocybin mushrooms are offered to their children as young as three years old. So that’s my son in six months, right? So this is a very different worldview and this is a way of thinking that’s not very common here in the United States that children are old enough and robust enough to imbibe in these other medicines like you were, you know, we’ve spoke about in Europe like alcohol, wine. I’m also Italian. We had our first drink of wine at age 9 at the dinner table because this is customary. This is part of actually introducing your children to these substances, so they have knowledge and awareness as they come into their teenage years. So my contact with this point person, this abuelita, this abuela, this grandmother who her first sit with this introduction to this medicine was at three years old. I said to her, I’m pregnant, I’m four months, I’m feeling the call to sit. What do I do? Is this appropriate? So she actually was the one who gave me permission and many women don’t have that kind of permission. They just have google and, so, you know. I wanted to back that up so I said, OK, I’m getting permission from a community elder now. What’s the science like? What’s here? What, you know, is research that’s been done on psilocybin and pregnant mothers, and there actually is a piece of research. You’d have to pretty much eat your body weight in psilocybin mushrooms to cause any kind of toxicity. So the most a human being has ever taken is like about 50 to 100 grams at a time. Which is a lot, right? A microdose is 1/10 of a gram, right? And so so little of that is making it into the breastmilk that it’s inert, essentially, once it makes it in there. Although psilocybin is present in breast milk, it’s a non toxic agent for adults in vast quantities and so it’s less toxic than aspirin than caffeine than nicotine than morphine that’s given in the epidural at the hospital. So we’re looking at a substance just on the traditional side, right, is very well integrated and then on science side pretty much inert as far as toxicity. If death is a toxic endpoint, it will not kill you. Question: “As you know there’s a stigma around drugs in general, but when you talk about mushrooms what most people know about them they’re hallucinogenics, they’re referred to as magic mushrooms. How do you get around that stigma that doing this is bad and you’re just a druggie or whatever term someone wants to use.” Answer: “Totally, and I think that those feelings of being a druggie or you know a junkie is very much perpetuated by, like, that propaganda during the drug war and also very much like the hippie revolution like drop out, you know, tune in, like, you know, go live in a school bus or whatever and, like, that’s a very much not what’s happening among microdosing mothers. I’m seeing microdosing mothers be very involved in their communities, very much involved with their families and what’s leading people to want to dose is actually the desire to be more present in their life. And it think that totally redefines what we think about as a drug user.”
Original Article (CBS 8 San Diego):
Micro-dosing magic mushrooms full interview with CA mom & Micro-dosing magic mushrooms | A growing trend among San Diego moms
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