Psilocybe Pickers traces how psychedelic mushrooms entered British culture and how authorities tried to police them

Psilocybe Pickers examines how Psilocybe mushrooms entered British consciousness during the twentieth century and became embedded in local and countercultural life. The book presents them as a rite of passage, folkloric emblem, and recurring presence in the festival calendar, while following the people who incorporated them into British culture. It also documents the efforts of authorities to police these fungi, including the legal shift that made possession of fresh magic mushrooms illegal twenty years before the book's publication. Written by historian and publisher Robert Dickins, the 130-page paperback includes a foreword by Dr Andy Letcher and was published in 2025.