Feed your head.
— Grace Slick
Mommies are mushrooming, reports Harper's Bazaar.
"This is a time of psychedelic renaissance, of mushroom mania," the magazine says.
"It’s a time when people are increasingly turning to psychedelics not for recreation but for healing—and many of them are parents."
Raising kids apparently so stresses millennial mommies they must take shrooms to cope.
Magic mushrooms—in my youth the illicit leading edge of consciousness-expansion—have become a trendy substitute for tranquilizers.
But "getting high is not the point," the magazine says: better parenting is.
Parenting is rough, after all, a "sleep-deprived, tedious, anxiety-riddled road, recently made all the more difficult by the pandemic."
Ingesting magic mushrooms can counteract the "malaise of modern parenting."
"The mushrooms allowed me to feel vulnerable," one angst-crippled mommy told the magazine.
Shrooms took her to a "place of peace and love and real clarity."
Research scientists of recent have been keen on shrooms, according to Harper's Bazaar.
"A steady thrum of studies has illuminated the potential benefits of psychedelics in helping with myriad mental-health disorders, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder," the magazine reports.
Two years ago, pharmacologists at Johns Hopkins announced that psilocybin can eliminate depression; while the FDA in 2023 is slated to approve ecstasy for treating PTSD.
So many mommies are turning to shrooms to cope, the magazine says, a nationwide mushroom movement is forming.
Some call the movement "psychedelic parenting;" others, "plant parenthood."
Critics worry that it lacks medical supervision.
Supervised or not, the movement is mushrooming: over 30 million Americans have ingested psychedelics, according to the Johns Hopkins pharmacologists—many of them mommies.
I now understand why I see so many moms in the supermarket talking to the cereal boxes.
Above: Shrooms. Oil on fiberboard. 10 x 8 inches. Score now!
