Cocaine is so 2024. This is the new drug obsession among the 'wines and lines' school mums - and they insist it makes them BETTER mothers
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As I sank down in my seat to celebrate a birthday dinner at trendy Mexican bar, I couldn't help notice that my friends all looked remarkably relaxed and stress free. With multiple kids each, there is no denying we are in the depths of frazzled parenting despair - often congratulating ourselves for merely making it through another week.
![['Here I was surrounded by suburban mums who were all quietly buzzing off drugs as they held intelligent conversations and sipped on chilled wine,' writes Jonica Bray (pictured)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/15/93698441-14245543-_Here_I_was_surrounded_by_suburban_mums_who_were_all_quietly_buz-a-14_1735917228090.jpg)
But here I was running late, desperately trying to catch the eye of a passing waiter to get a drink while they all seemed... way too chilled. As I sipped on my sauvignon blanc and tried to catch up with the conversations and the vibe, I just couldn't put my finger on it.
![[Recent studies have found that people who reported microdosing magic mushrooms saw improvements in symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress (stock image)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/15/93698191-14245543-Recent_studies_have_found_that_people_who_reported_microdosing_m-a-15_1735917229060.jpg)
Fresh filler? Nope. A weekend away? Apparently not. A new au pair? No chance. So what was giving them all that contented glow?. 'I micro-dosed some 'shrooms before I left home,' one smiled as she opened her well-worn 'going out out' clutch to reveal a couple of unlabelled white bottles that looked more like eyedrops than illegal drugs.
My mind was immediately back to the festival heydays of the mid '90s. I grew up in Cornwall, England, where mushrooms grew on our school field and, a few years later, they were our drug of choice at music events. Hippies, ravers, wayward teens - you expect them to take magic mushrooms. But not respectable, middle-class mothers.
Jonica Bray says 'mushie mums' are the new 'wines and lines mums', with magic mushroom microdosing on the rise as cocaine becomes too expensive (stock image posed by models). I'd heard all sorts of stories of people seeing tiny firemen running through fields and psychedelic clouds chasing after them.
