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Interesting. Why is it riskier when you desiccate them, assuming you aren't selling them either way.

IANAL. As I understand it the possession of dried shrooms is much less ambiguously illegal than fresh shrooms. It varies widely between states. In mine a rare prosecution for possession of fresh shrooms failed due to that ambiguity.

https://www.inverse.com/article/7772-magic-mushrooms-are-leg...

In most jurisdictions in the US, cultivated [psychoactive] mushrooms of any form are illegal. In some jurisdictions, spores are legal for microscopy only, but as soon as you cultivate them the organic mass becomes illegal.

I would have assumed the opposite.

The pigs love to stick their thumb on the scale so that they can hit you with a more severe charge, so I'm sure they'd love it if your shrooms weigh 10x because of the water weight.

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