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Instead what many of these "shroom" products do is use other kinds of fungus that is known to cause altered states and hallicinations, such as the perfectly legal Amanita Muscaria, which if you're not familiar is that iconic red mushroom with white spots, which you may have also been taught is extremely toxic.
It is, but in low doses it can bring about states of relaxation or sleepiness and the head-shops and shady online dealers sell the stuff promising to get you "high." The trip from a high dose of Amanita Muscaria is akin to torture people have said, so if people are eating whole bags of this shit trying to get high, they're poisoning themselves and having horrible experiences.
An amanita species being mixed in accidentally is actually exactly what I suspect happened to their bars. But there are many many other mushrooms that could do this too. Per their product page, there's no amanita in these, either. Mushrooms also tend to absorb toxins, pesticides, and heavy metals, so they may be the right species but otherwise contaminated as well. Many options.
I bet they mixed something up. My mother loved mycology and could identify a thousand different mushrooms, and the more she learned the more she learned not to trust fungus gathered in the wild, they all have a lot of imitators and lookalikes that can be incredibly dangerous.