What Is Mushroom Chocolate? Magic mushrooms – also known as shrooms, mushies, Amani, and philosopher’s stones – are cultivated mushrooms. These mushrooms contain a psychoactive and hallucinogenic compound called psilocybin, which was first isolated in 1958 by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann, who also discovered LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide). Shrooms often look like dried ordinary […]