Dose
To find out the accurate dose, you need to know how much of which species of magic mushrooms you are talking about. Taking unidentified mushrooms can lead to serious injury. Here are some standards per species:

Species	Beginners dose	Full dose	Massive dose
Psilocybe tampanensis	7.5 / 2.5*	15 / 5*	30 / 10*
Psilocybe cubensis	15 / 1.25	30 / 2.5	45 / 3.25
Panaeolus cyanescens	5 / 0.4	10 / 0.8	18 / 1.5
Psilocybe mckennai	10 / 1	20 / 2	30 / 3
Psilocybe azurescens	4 / 0.4	8 / 0.8	15 / 1.5

The above doses are in grams.

*Note: Psilocybe tampanensis truffles in dry state are to hard to consume. A user would break it’s teeth consuming it raw. Users generally soack these truffles in tea for 15 minutes, before consumption.

Psilocybe mushrooms can be consumed as is. Be it dry or fresh. The longer they are chewed on, the better the absorbtion. More effective is to let them sit in tea for aprox. 15 minutes after which the magic mushrooms tea is drunk and the mushroom residue is eaten. Note that the mushrooms are not added to boiling water, but to the tea itself, as heat destroys many of the Tryptamines. There are many different ways to consume magic mushrooms. See the forum for magic mushroom recipes.

Fresh & dry.
Dried magic mushrooms are easier/safer to dose, the effect is more stoned. In the process of drying, psilocin, psilocybin and other psychedelic tryptamins are lost, because of heat exposure. A good way of illustrating this is that you need (depending on what strain) 12 to 15 kg fresh magic mushrooms to get 1 kg dry magic mushrooms. In the case of Psilocybe cubensis (mexican mushrooms) you will need around 13 -14 kg fresh magic mushrooms for 1 kg dry. But the dry magic mushrooms are only 12 times stronger(if you dry it well and not to hot), not 13-14 times. This is why fresh magic mushrooms are stronger per mushroom and dry is stronger per gram. Fresh magic mushooms give a more active effect. Better? It's a matter of taste. When you dry shrooms, the psilocibin is converted to psilocin. This is why fresh mushrooms are more energetic and dry mushrooms more lazy and stoned. Dry mushrooms are easier in dosage as a fresh mushrooms contains a variable amount of water between 85 and 93%. So somewhere between 15 and 7% of a fresh mushroom when you dont count water. Altough it would be a rare occasion, this means one fresh mushroom can be more than twice as potent as the next!

Fresh magic mushrooms can go bad due to rot and infestive molds. Eating such magic mushrooms can make one very ill. Rotten mushrooms can look dark and slimey. White mold is normal.