Shit man now is not the time to loose your pair. You were drunk, maybe you thought the bottle was falling, maybe you thought there was an earthquake, doesn't matter how ridiculous your story is, so long as it plays with theirs and you sell that shit like you believe it. Does it matter if you look like the stupidest kid on the planet if it gets you out of this?
At this point of the game the actual facts are not helping you. Plausible deniability, a term usually reserved for the wealthy, is your best friend right now. You were drunk. This is the only fact that could benefit you. Drunk and disorderly, that is what you plead to, anything else you want a jury trial.
Mushrooms are not illegal ,the compounds in any given mushroom could be illegal if it is a scheduled substance. They certainly don't want to pay to have the lab run up test on a tiny bag of shrooms. If you demand jury trial then they will be required to submit the drugs for laboratory analysis, most crime labs have backlogs and testing a couple grams of shrooms isn't going to be on anyone's priority list, unless they swipe them to test out what the dose feels like. This happens more often than you think and people get great plea deals all the time because the pigs lost their evidence .
Despite what anyone may tell you, at this point you can only improve your situation by demanding a jury trial. It's a whole lot of stress, but trust me a years worth of stress will do you better than a lifelong record. You know your going to plead out, but don't let your public defender know.
The more convinced your public defender is that your serious about demanding a jury trial the better your deal gets. Often times public defenders are hoping to get invited to a barbecue at the prosecutors house, they are often young and inexperienced and are trying to make friends with all the other lawyers in town. You convince them your stupid enough to go to jury trial ( only jury trial! Under no circumstances accept a judge or a magistrate trial) and you will get your drunk and disorderly plea.
It's your life and ultimately your decision, I have offered what I think your best path to conclusion should be, the best of luck whatever you decide.
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