2023-11-11 00:30:00
Like the plumber Mario in Nintendo’s video games, more and more people are swallowing magic mushrooms, preferably in microdose capsules, because it’s more chic and less peasant, but also in the traditional way, by chewing pieces rubbery that taste like hell.
Published yesterday at 7:30 p.m.
The good old “mush”, an illegal substance that causes hallucinations and visual distortions, even grows in several of our favorite Quebec TV series, with side effects oscillating between murderous toxic madness and uncontrollable hilarity for four hours.
Tuesday evening, Indefensible on TVA broadcast the most surreal – and most burlesque – scene of a person having ingested magic mushrooms for the buzz. So, the dapper Élodie (Mirianne Brûlé) invited her chum of daughter Tania (Guinevere Sandré) to celebrate her return home after a three-month trip to Thailand.
Perky, the two young women downed two bottles of sparkling wine in two hours. cheap. Then, the naughty Élodie took out a Ziploc containing the famous mush. “There’s nothing there, don’t worry, it’s good stock,” pleaded Élodie to her fearful friend Tania, who had never consumed it.
Quantity of drug taken by each of the girls: one gram. After the initial euphoria, Tania began to lose the card. Solidly. She heard voices, felt threatened and, oh boy, was spinning the worst low-end cotton.
Disconnected from reality, Tania grabbed a saber hanging on the wall and delivered a big blow directly to the face of her tanned friend (poor Selina!), before fleeing into the street with the bloody weapon.
Honestly, this mind-blowing everyday scene Indefensible has surely frightened an entire generation of parents who imagine that their child will end up directly in Pinel if he swallows a branch of mush.
In contrast, the series Before the crash of Radio-Canada has favored the gentle approach in the ingestion of magic mushrooms, i.e. consumption in small quantities, microdosing. These capsules improved the quality of life of the friendly Patrick (Mani Soleymanlou), who thus saved his marriage and his job as an investment banker.
In the fifth episode of the excellent comedy Breathe in breathe out from the Crave platform, all the participants of the yoga retreat unknowingly drink a herbal tea infused with magic mushrooms, which causes a collective delirium, dizziness and facial numbness, yes, but no ninja attack , Thank God.
Series STAT from Radio-Canada also offered, in March, its psychedelic moment when Emmanuelle (Suzanne Clément), Philippe (Patrick Labbé), Isabelle (Geneviève Schmidt) and Éric (Stéphane Rousseau) experienced a big trip de mush without unfortunate consequences.
Confession here: yes, I have already taken mush, in microdose and in separate parts (it’s disgusting). I didn’t slip into dementia, not yet at least, nor did I end up with a needle in my arm in the crack alley in downtown Montreal. It must be said that I went there “sparingly”, to quote Rebecca in FROM.
But I understand the issue: does showing characters on television intoxicated with magic mushrooms amount to condoning the act or promoting it?
Even cannabis, although legal in Quebec, still triggers reactions from outraged viewers.
It happened recently when Emmanuelle and Éric shared a joint, in STAT, while they had finished their shift at Saint-Vincent hospital. Many of you have freaked out : what, doctors who smoke pot ? Unacceptable!
Breaking news: yes, it can happen that doctors treat themselves to products purchased at the SQDC.
Now how to talk about mush on TV without playing the moralizing priest or the cool baba survivor from the 1970s? You have to be honest and transparent.
“The challenge in all these representations is to avoid extremes and it is complex, because extremes exist. We must be sensitive so as not to reinforce certain stereotypes and we must not trivialize drug use either,” explains Jean-Sébastien Fallu, addiction specialist and professor at the School of Psychoeducation at the University of Montreal.
If I trust the messages you write to me, cigarettes shock you more than cannabis, magic mushrooms or even cocaine.
Isabelle (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman)Before the crash sniff a rail of powder as long as his forearm? Radio silence. Sophie (Sonia Cordeau)Breathe in breathe out lights a cigarette in his tank? You stick to the ceiling.
Put away the sabers and swords, it’s enough to cause a psychosis.
I levitate
With Great thank you, the Monica Heisey
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I avoid it
PHOTO PATRICK SANFAÇON, THE PRESS
The first snow in Montreal, rue de la Commune
Snow in November
That’s no. Denied. We’re going to live with this white crap for six months, could we at least have a break until Christmas? There is nothing magical about waking up to ice on the steps and slush spread all over the sidewalks still cluttered with old rotten dead leaves. Yuck.
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