Wild psychoactive mushrooms are all around and spreading

When you think about psilocybin mushrooms you often think of tropical forests or at least some rural meadows with abundant cow dung. But the truth is they are everywhere, they grow on every continent except Antarctica, and they like wide range of habitats. What you might not know is that they are getting increasingly abundant in urban areas; parks, gardens, lawns and even sites like building sites and garbage dumps. In general they are rapidly conquering so called disturbed habitats.

It's almost as if they are coming to us because they have something to teach us.

Some of the most potent Psilocybe mushrooms like Psilocybe cyanescens and Psilocybe azurenscens are fast colonizing towns and cities of the temperate trying to reach out to those who want to listen what nature has to say.

As this excerpt from the Shroomery explains Psilocybe cyanescens is tsking her mission very seriously: "In the United States, P. cyanescens occurs mainly in the Pacific Northwest, south to the San Francisco Bay Area. It can also be found in areas such as Western Europe, Central Europe, parts of Australia and parts of west Asia (Iran). The range in which P. cyanescens occurs is rapidly expanding, especially in areas where it is not native as the use of mulch to control weeds has been popularized. This rapid expansion of range may be due in part to the simple expedient of P. cyanescens mycelium having colonized the distribution network of woodchip suppliers and thus being distributed on a large scale with commercial mulch.
Although it has been speculated that P cyanescens' native habitat is the coniferous woodlands of the north-western United States or coastal dunes in the PNW, the type specimen was described from mulch beds in Kew Gardens, and there is no widely accepted explanation of P. cyanescens original habitat. Paul Stamets has suggested that P. cyanescens may originally have been a niche saprophyte of pinecones whose range was allowed to drastically expand with the introduction of ornamental mulch."

So the question everybody is asking is - How do I find it?

Luckily there's an excellent video tutorial with step-by-step explanation that's been around for a while, the best thing about it is that it not only shows how to recognize few species, but it explains how to identify the whole Psilocybe genus.