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JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
Volume 64, Issue 4, Pages 1266-1270Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.13982
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forensic science; forensic toxicology; psilocybin; psilocin; magic mushrooms; bad trip
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Fatalities implicating psychedelic mushrooms are not a common clinical situation in everyday forensic medicine. Despite classification as an illegal drug in many countries, psilocybin mushrooms have the reputation of being safe. We report the case of a young man who jumped from a second story balcony under the influence of psilocybin mushrooms. The psilocin assay was performed by gas chromatography coupled to an electron-impact ionization time-of-flight detector (GC-EI-TOF) after solid-phase extraction. Total psilocin was quantified in peripheral and cardiac blood as 60 and 67 ng/mL, respectively, and in urine (2230 ng/mL), bile (3102 ng/mL), and vitreous humor (57 ng/mL). This case report and review of literature highlights the danger of psilocybin mushrooms. Isolated use of psilocybin mushrooms by a regular consumer without psychiatric history, even under safe circumstances, can lead to a fatal outcome.
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