It's also shockingly easy to grow em yourself

Like 50 bucks of setup gardening equipment and you can get the spores shipped to your door in basically any state

I was able to get off my depression meds afterwards. It's been 8 years.

I tried this two times now, but with no luck. I was off any medication for months before the second try because I'd read that ssris can prevent the effects of mushrooms, so now I worry the effect of SSRIs may be permanent because I felt absolutely no effect besides a little nausea. Was that not a factor for your wife?

Depression vs. Funky depression?

I understand your sentiment completely, and likely would go about this very similarly to yourself. One thing to bear in mind is just how important programs like this can be for reframing the general perception of psychedelics for a lot of people. It being a sanctioned, "medically approved" experience can be a huge point for changing minds on this sort of thing.

Just so you're aware, it's still not legal to grow them for yourself, or possess them or use them. It's just that if you're caught with them, you can only be given a fine or be required to do a drug program.

If you're just looking to try on your own, and not in a medical setting like what is legal. Uncle Ben's or brf (brown rice flower) methods are the easiest way to get them. Spores can be purchased legally in a lot of places online. And there's a lot of knowledge available on growing if you look. The worse version of lemmy ie reddit has several subs devoted to this and at least used to have safe online vendors to buy spores. There's also some great YouTube channels, even ones that are strictly about legal mushrooms have knowledge that transfers to cubes.

Well... You you most likely will if you take more. Just make sure you are in a safe space. I've been spirt guide to a few people who didn't know what that means because they had never taken enough. It can be terrifying to some so I recommend a guide who has been there before.