I recommend this hobby to the neurotic, depressed and phobic. A psilocybin trip isn't always pleasant, and any kind of gardening takes time and effort, but the risks are relatively low (comparable to antidepressants, etc.?) and the potential rewards in terms of inner peace are high.
It's also a blast to watch 'em pop up, the rapid endgame of a drama that intensifies over weeks.
As I understand it, if you don't desiccate them the legal risks are quite low. Given their benefits it's a crying shame that you can't buy these over the counter at the local store. This is so much less a substance of abuse than so many of the other things they sell.
IANAL. As I understand it the possession of dried shrooms is much less ambiguously illegal than fresh shrooms. It varies widely between states. In mine a rare prosecution for possession of fresh shrooms failed due to that ambiguity.
In most jurisdictions in the US, cultivated [psychoactive] mushrooms of any form are illegal. In some jurisdictions, spores are legal for microscopy only, but as soon as you cultivate them the organic mass becomes illegal.
The pigs love to stick their thumb on the scale so that they can hit you with a more severe charge, so I'm sure they'd love it if your shrooms weigh 10x because of the water weight.
It's also a blast to watch 'em pop up, the rapid endgame of a drama that intensifies over weeks.
As I understand it, if you don't desiccate them the legal risks are quite low. Given their benefits it's a crying shame that you can't buy these over the counter at the local store. This is so much less a substance of abuse than so many of the other things they sell.