Primo mushroom tea for two (or three)

Requires:
1 qt water
3-4 bags of green tea. Substitute bags of cannabis stems as desired.
1 orange peel [split the orange and fry nuts]
Cloves
Ginger
1/8 oz dry mushrooms [pick your poison] Mixture of stems, spores and caps yields best results

Tools:
Pot [cookware]
pot [not cookware]
Knife or weed grinder
Coffee filters
Rubber bands or metal twist ties from the produce section




Begin boiling water. Put the tea bags in the pot and let it start brewing.

While that's happening, grind/chop the fuck out of your mushrooms. You want it to be the consistency of tobacco. DO NOT pulverize it, that will decanter the toxin from the fungus. In this case, the toxin is the good part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin#Physiology for questions on that.

Once you've got your fungus ground/chopped, split the 1/8 oz into piles. Put each pile in the center of one (1) coffee filter, and make something similar to a money bag or a coin purse. That is, fold the sides up and twist them off with a twist tie/rubber band.

Now put those damn bags in the water, they should float. If they don't your shit will taste like rubber or metal (depending on your tie), so redistribute the fungus into more bags. Lick your fingers if you do this. It's a good ramp up.

Once you've got that, add as much orange peel as you want (the more the better IMHO). A pinch of cloves and a sprinkle of ginger makes this almost TOO good.

Boil until you can't wait any longer. Stir often. If you take the mushroom bags out and the mushrooms aren't dark and slimy (looking about the same as really dark slugs) then your tea isn't done yet.

Remove orange peels, mushrooms, etc. Strain the solution if you can. The shit in the bags is edible and will make a friend have a nice mellow fry. The tea itself serves two, plus the bags could do one more.

Explanation of ingredients [for those who care]:
The orange peel has two functions. First it provides vitamin C, which accelerates the body's synthesis of Norepinephrine. This chemical is one of the main contributors to the experience of "frying" (euphoria, uninhibited/rapid thoughts).

Secondarily, the ginger orange peel is a source of citric acid, which mellows the stomach's natural reaction to norepinephrine (nausea, discomfort, restlessness) which is one of the main causes of bad trips (right behind taking two much: know your limit).

Fun fact: The average person would have to eat 1.7kg (3.7 lbs) of mushrooms to reach the lethal dose of psilocybin FOR RATS.