I did most of my mushroom trips in the past in a country and during a time when they were legal there, similarly to how cannabis is dealt with in the US now where it is legal for recreational use. It was even too free I would say, as you could buy them even on a market, just like vegetables. I liked much better the specialist shops where they also had information on all the different types and we could discuss any question or concern with the employees openly, without feeling that we were talking about some underground secret. Ironically, they banned them around the time when I left that country.

I don't think I would have ever done that much and that comfortably if they had been illicit drugs as I never feel very comfortable breaking the law (one reason I also tried Ayahuasca in an environment where it is legal and the providers have demonstrated experience). Well, surely I still did some psychedelics under the table, but never felt truly comfortable in that way, including because you never know what you get. The promise of all these current movements is that it would be open and available to people but at the same tome highly regulated. Of course then we would still have to face similar things to what is going on about CBD now, for example... not so easy to find a reliable product that is marketed transparently, and the hype is way too much, selling it like magic that can help everything.