The Couples Using Magic Mushrooms as Relationship Therapy
(WorldNews Canada)

This article originally appeared on VICE US. Once a month, Fern*, 32 and her fiance Connor*, 25, set aside some time to devote to their relationship. They`ll dim the lights of their one bedroom flat, wrap up together in a soft blanket, light some candles, and turn off their phones. But this isn`t prep for an extensive session of Netflix and chill-this is their special routine for a new type of couples therapy: tripping on funghi. Magic mushrooms have been a part of human culture for thousands of years: Long before Alice fell down the rabbit hole, ancient civilizations from the Egyptians to the Aztecs were having ritualized encounters with the psychedelic growths. Then in the 1950s and early...