Psilocybe Pickers by Robert Dickins

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Paperback | 130pp | 2025 | ISBN: 9781068422331

From obscure origins, Psilocybe mushrooms quickly and quietly established themselves in local and countercultural Britain. They became a staple rite of passage, folkloric emblem, and mischievous companion in the festival calendar. For over fifty years, these tricksters danced around the law, difficult to capture.

Now, twenty years after possession of fresh magic mushrooms was made illegal, Psilocybe Pickers tells the story of how these psychedelic fungi entered British consciousness in the twentieth century, the bemushroomed Britons who took them on as part of their culture, and how the authorities tried to police them.

Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher

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Robert Dickins, PhD, is a literary historian and publisher. He lives in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire