According to a study in a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, psilocybin (the drug in hallucinogenic mushrooms that makes all the wackiness happen) is good for you. That is to say, the hallucinations it induces can have long-term psychological benefits. It also might be helpful for treating alcohol and drug addiction.

Now, it's still considered dangerous and categorized as an illegal drug, and the findings aren't all that conclusive. The only thing we know for sure is that mushrooms are very helpful for concocting stories about the bricks of the building you're beholding under a melting midnight campus sky wherein the bricks all work in a brick factory and get paid in bricks and, on Christmas, if they've been especially good bricks this year, are allowed some extra salt when they dine on their Christmas brick.

Link. Image via Flickr.