“I used to think shrooms were just for hippies and burnouts. Then a therapist-guided session helped me quit drinking after 12 years. Now I volunteer with a decrim group.”
Before you hit record, you must establish ground rules.
Interviewer: We started by asking people what they knew about shrooms.
Walking down Q Street in Washington, D.C. — where psilocybin mushrooms are effectively decriminalized — you hear more than traffic and footsteps. You hear quiet conversations about microdosing, ego dissolution, and the war on drugs. I took a recorder and asked five strangers one question: What’s your real experience with shrooms?
Here’s a useful template for a blog post titled — written in an engaging, documentary-style format. You can adapt it to your actual interviews or use it as a thought experiment.
