Netherlands Bans Magic Mushrooms :(

Stupid tourists should know better than to drink the water or eat some kind of mushrooms.
anyway, great thread, I guess this means we should lay in a supply now.
 
Warren said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7041961.stm

Netherlands bans magic mushrooms

The Dutch government is banning the sale of all magic mushrooms after a series of high-profile incidents involving tourists who had taken them.
The decision will take effect within several months, said a spokesman for the Dutch justice ministry.

A major Dutch producer of the psychedelic mushrooms said he stood to lose millions of euros as a result.

The Netherlands is famed for its liberal drugs policy, with marijuana openly sold in licensed cafes.

Magic mushrooms, more properly known as psilocybe, contain the psychedelic chemicals psilocybin and psilocin.

"We intend to forbid the sale of magic mushrooms," said justice ministry spokesman Wim van der Weegen.

"That means shops caught doing so will be closed."

Currently in the Netherlands the sale of dried magic mushrooms - in which the psychoactive chemicals psilocybin and psilocin are stronger - is banned but fresh mushrooms are allowed.
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I bet the judge was a neo-con. Stupid kill joys. :cool:
 
"A major Dutch producer of the psychedelic mushrooms said he stood to lose millions of euros as a result."

another example of govt. interferring with a free market.
 
The government banned them here a couple of years ago as well. Can't say that i've ever had them myself but i'm pretty sure i could get hold of them if i wanted. Aren't black markets great?

Having been to Amsterdam i can vouch for the fact that walking round the streets of an evening, doing a spot of late-night window shopping, you are pestered on a minute by minute basis by shifty looking chaps trying to sell you coke and E's (for prices which by English standards are grossly inflated...so i'm told). So it makes perfect sense to reward the street vendor, who could be selling you any old shite, rather than seeing cash paid to a legally responsible businessman, providing a quality product, and passing a small proportion of the sale price to the government in taxes.

Tourists who decide to snack on 'shrooms before throwing themselves from balconies are hardly any great loss to society anyway.
 
It's really annoying hearing the layperson talking about the effects of Mushrooms.

"Man, it gets into your brain, and poisons it, and since it hurts your brain so much you get high!"

Dumbass, if it poisoned your brain, you'd die. You wouldn't get high. Try cyanide if you'd like to feel what poisoning your brain is like.

Mushrooms are less toxic than asprin and work by increasing serotinin production in the brain.
 
Holland is daft. Or rather the government of Holland is daft.

They have a niche market, as sex and drugs capital of Europe, because lets face it, if they didn't have drugs and hookers who would visit?

It doesn't have the cuisine, or despressed French rugby fans of Paris, the hard-techno of Berlin or the pomp of London.

Clogs and windmills? Face facts Holland. Without drugs and sex you are nothing!!!!
 
Dumbass, if it poisoned your brain, you'd die. You wouldn't get high. Try cyanide if you'd like to feel what poisoning your brain is like.

It does poison your brain. As does alcohol. Just mild poisoning.

Mushrooms are less toxic than asprin and work by increasing serotinin production in the brain.

Which drains the serotonin in the brain in the same way E and Phet does.

Ever heard the Jam song 'Thats entertainment'?

"Days of speed and slow time Mondays"

Having said all this, shrooms are fantastic, I like to dabble at least twice a year....

Liberty caps are our local variety.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata
 
AnyOldIron said:
Holland is daft. Or rather the government of Holland is daft.

They have a niche market, as sex and drugs capital of Europe, because lets face it, if they didn't have drugs and hookers who would visit?

It doesn't have the cuisine, or despressed French rugby fans of Paris, the hard-techno of Berlin or the pomp of London.

Clogs and windmills? Face facts Holland. Without drugs and sex you are nothing!!!!
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Good to see you've escaped the civil service sentinels for the day.

Did you see that the Amsterdam city council or the Dutch government have also bought up about a quarter of the 'windows' and are embarking on some sort of gentrification project?

If you can't get off your tits on drugs before getting off by putting your dick in some tits the lure of some lass in an attic (who doesn't even do it for money) is hardly going to tempt the rakish young English gent to spend his filthy lucre, is it?
 
If you can't get off your tits on drugs before getting off by putting your dick in some tits the lure of some lass in an attic (who doesn't even do it for money) is hardly going to tempt the rakish young English gent to spend his filthy lucre, is it?

Exactly my point. If the Dutch authorities want Amsterdam to become a version of Grimsby with clogs then they're going the right way....
 
AnyOldIron said:
Dumbass, if it poisoned your brain, you'd die. You wouldn't get high. Try cyanide if you'd like to feel what poisoning your brain is like.

It does poison your brain. As does alcohol. Just mild poisoning.

Mushrooms are less toxic than asprin and work by increasing serotinin production in the brain.

Which drains the serotonin in the brain in the same way E and Phet does.

Ever heard the Jam song 'Thats entertainment'?

"Days of speed and slow time Mondays"

Having said all this, shrooms are fantastic, I like to dabble at least twice a year....

Liberty caps are our local variety.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata
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No, it doesn't poison your brain. Alcohol doesn't poison your brain either. To call them "poison's" would be a mislabing of ridiculous proportions. In laboratory mice, alcoholics who stayed off of alcohol for a week had all of their brain cells restored through neurogenesis. Pslocybean isn't neurotoxic in the least. And in any case, even if they were neurotoxic, it would have absolutely nothing to do with the way they get you high.
 
I understand people who take mushrooms like to get off on the "fact" that they're destroying their brain, and they think that is very cool and makes them risky. However, mostly they are stupid and lazy simply because they are stupid and lazy. It has nothing to do with the mushrooms, which don't harm the body at all. You're causing more harm to your body by taking aspirin.
 
Watermark said:
No, it doesn't poison your brain. Alcohol doesn't poison your brain either. To call them "poison's" would be a mislabing of ridiculous proportions. In laboratory mice, alcoholics who stayed off of alcohol for a week had all of their brain cells restored through neurogenesis. Pslocybean isn't neurotoxic in the least. And in any case, even if they were neurotoxic, it would have absolutely nothing to do with the way they get you high.
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You really don't understand the effects of alcohol. Alcohol can actually change your brain chemistry so much that you can be permanently effected by its abuse.

Alcohol doesn't just poison your brain, it also poisons your body. Its abuse can lead to psorosis of the liver as well as other physical ailments.

Its overuse leads about 80% of alcoholics to thiamine deficiency and can lead to serious problems such as Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome.
 
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