Magic Mushrooms in Grade 7

I’ve always been interested in making money and causing trouble.  I was around twelve years old when I “went bad”.

In PEI, the magic mushrooms grow wild.  Magic Mushrooms.  I kept hearing about the older kids taking the magic mushrooms.  I was curious what happens when you eat these things?   I remember playing a game of baseball in my front yard when I was in Grade 7.  I told my best friend at the time that I wanted to try magic mushrooms.  He says, “No, you’re crazy …”.  I didn’t listen to him.  I never listened to anybody.  I tried the mushrooms and it was the freakiest experience I ever had.  I took them at lunch on a school day.  A little while later, I was in history class and I thought the room was floating.  I saw waves in the floor like it was made of water.  The teacher was about ten feet tall.  Then he was short and fat.  Then he was tall and skinny again.  I was stoned and I loved it.

I found some new friends and we’d take mushrooms every weekend.  First we’d just go stand outside the liquor store until we found us someone willing to buy us some beer.  Then we’d take mushrooms and hang around by the train tracks just having a good time.

Below is a story from a local newspaper, at the time, on magic mushrooms (author unknown):