SUMMER OF SHROOMS (MIC) — Michelle Lhooq

The pandemic’s unprecedented suffering has made mental health mainstream, and rather than popping pharmaceutical pills, munching on shrooms has become many people’s preferred medicine.

Yet, most of us experimented with psychedelics alone during the pandemic, and bringing them into a party space felt like an experiment:

Could the same fungi that provided so much solace in quarantine now help us to reintegrate back into the world?