TBH I’ve been getting restless with weed. I moved to LA under the spell of a fantasy that I’d witness a stoner revolution, wondering naively what kind of collective awakening would happen once this drug went mainstream. This dream of THC-assisted transcendence never really materialized, but a mess of headache regulations, exorbitant taxes, and borderline snake oil products that reduced cannabis to its most inoffensive facets arrive in its wake (sorry, CBD is so over).
I watched cannabis go from counterculture to capitalist cash cow, morphing into a mundane industry dominated by stoner bros and IPOs.
So can you blame me for moseying over to the shroom scene, which is booming with the type of electric possibility that lured me towards cannabis in the first place? I can’t leave my house in LA these days without meeting someone working on some artisanal shroom brand, and I’ve become obsessed with documenting all the cute packaging and products flooding the market—microdose LSD kits, DMT vapes, and shroom chocolates seem to be especially chic right now.