Shroom effects can last between 3-6 hours. Afterward, shrooms can stay in your system for 24 hours or longer, depending on multiple variables.
How Long Do Shrooms Stay In Your System?
After consuming hallucinogenic mushrooms, the body will break them down into their active components, such as psilocybin and its active form known as psilocin. This process is relatively quick, though, as it includes the following steps:
- Altered emotion, perception and consciousness can begin in as little as 20 minutes after ingestion. Changes can last for several hours, depending on a number of factors.
- At this same time, the body starts quickly processing the compounds. The kidneys will excrete the compounds, which exit the body in urine.
- The half-life of a drug refers to how long it takes the body to break down or excrete half the total amount that an individual ingests. For example, the half-life of psilocin is 50 minutes.
- Around 66% of the compounds will be excreted from the body within 3 hours.
- The compounds are no longer detectable in the urine after 24 hours time.
How Long Are Shrooms Detectable By A Drug Test?
Routine drug tests do not usually check for shrooms, but specialized tests do exist. The Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association notes that hallucinogen tests can screen for the following:
- LSD
- Mescaline
- Mushrooms
- Peyote
Urine Drug Tests
Some specific drug tests are designed to detect the amount of psilocin in urine, with the ability to do so 1-3 days after shrooms have been consumed. Psilocin isn’t usually detectable after 3 days, but it can linger in the body for a longer period of time.
Factors that can determine how quickly a body will process and get rid of psilocin include age, weight, metabolism and overall health. At this time it is unclear if psilocin or other compounds in magic mushrooms can be detected in blood or hair follicle tests.
The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) note that urine tests are commonly used to screen for these five categories of drugs:
- Amphetamines.
- Cannabis.
- Cocaine.
- Opiates.
- PCP.
While individuals usually refer to this as the five-panel test, other screenings can include more panels. These tests could screen for the following categories:
- Alcohol.
- Barbituates.
- Benzodiazepines.
- MDMA.
- Methadone.
- Methaqualone.
- Propoxyphene.
Hair Follicle Drug Tests
Some hair follicle tests can check for compounds, including hallucinogens, over an extended period of time. For instance, hair follicle testing can detect these compounds for up to 90 days after consumption. However, these screens come with a higher testing cost and are not as common as urine tests.
What Factors Affect Shroom Detection?
A few factors can affect how long shrooms remain in your system. Let’s take a detailed look at these factors below.
Mushroom Species
There are between 75-200 different psilocybin-containing mushroom species. This means the amount of hallucinogen will also vary shroom to shroom. The more psilocybin that’s present in the shroom, the longer it will stay in the body.
Time Between Ingestion And Testing
It’s no secret that hallucinogens like psilocybin can be eliminated from the body quickly. Even so, the time between ingestion and testing could become a factor. The sooner a drug testing is performed after ingestion, the more likely the substance is to be detected.
Method Of Use
How you consume the mushroom will play a role in how long it takes to pass through your system. Typical consumption methods include dried or fresh, drank in tea or eaten in a burger.
Age
As your metabolism, kidney and liver all slow with age, this can delay the excretion of psilocybin from the body. The older you are, the longer psilocybin and other substances will stay in your body.
Dose
It should go without saying the more you ingest, the longer the mushrooms will take to exit your system.
Body Type
No two bodies will process substances on the same exact schedule. Metabolism, body mass index (BMI) and water content will all affect how quickly substances are excreted.
Stomach
The amount of food and/or liquid present in your stomach will impact how long shrooms stay present. Hydration speeds up psilocybin excretion, while food ultimately slows processing down.
Other Substances
Taking shrooms in combination with other substances will lead to unpredictable effects and timing.
How To Get Shrooms Out Of Your System Faster
Most magic mushroom tests claim to only be able to detect psilocin up to three days after consumption, but this could vary based on the specific individual.
While it is unclear if there are ways to get psilocin out of your system quicker, the simple solution is to stop consuming them as soon as possible to let your body do its natural processing.
How Long Do Shroom Effects Last?
As mentioned above, the average trip will last between 3-6 hours, though some individuals may feel effects for longer periods of time. It’s quite possible to experience some lingering effects the next day. The factors that affect severity and duration of the trip are the same ones that impact detection.
Shroom Effects
As psychedelics, magic mushrooms can cause hallucinations and distortions in your perceptions. Shrooms can also affect mood and thoughts.
Ingesting shrooms can result in the following effects:
- Altered perception.
- Euphoria.
- Altered thoughts and mood.
- Headaches.
- Sweating.
- Chills.
- Tremors.
- Raised body temperature.
- Increased or slowed heart rate.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Facial flushing.
- Dilation of pupils.
Bad shroom trips can unfortunately cause the following symptoms:
- Fear.
- Panic.
- Paranoia.
- Unpleasant hallucinations.
- Anxiety.
Conclusion
Shrooms are undoubtedly processed and eliminated from the body quickly, but many variables make it hard to say exactly how long they can stay in your system.
*Please note in 47 out of 50 states, psychedelic mushrooms are perfectly legal. Users can buy, sell and own psilocybin mushroom spores for research purposes only. However, it is illegal in nearly all jurisdictions to cultivate magic mushrooms. Psilocybin spores are never to be cultivated.
The only exception is in New Mexico, where it remains legal to grow mushrooms as long as no steps are taken to preserve the mushrooms. Make sure to familiarize yourself with your local psychedelic spore laws before placing an order. Psilocybin mushroom spores are currently illegal in California, Georgia and Idaho.
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