PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon scientists have discovered that many products marketed as “magic mushrooms” actually contain unknown ingredients, rather than the compounds typically associated with the psychedelic drug.

In the study led by Oregon State University Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor Richard van Breemen, researchers bought 12 gummies and chocolates that had been labeled as mushroom edibles in Portland. But neither psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in Psilocybe mushrooms, nor muscimol — the psychoactive compound found in Amanita mushrooms — was detected in any of the edibles.

Psilocybin is a Schedule 1 drug at the federal level, meaning that it has “high potential for abuse” and it isn’t accepted for medical use. At the state level, the 2020 passage of Measure 109 all

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