Last orders for magic mushroom enthusiasts

sweetheart

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Sat Jun-25-05 08:47 AM
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Last orders for magic mushroom enthusiasts

Seems that tony blair's government is following bush back to the
victorian era of corporate feudalism and the prison state.

Mark Honigsbaum
Saturday June 25, 2005
The Guardian

Bad news for psychedelic fungi fans. There are just 24 more shopping days before magic mushrooms are declared illegal - and that's official.

Ignoring pleas from mushroom retailers and consumers, the government yesterday announced that clause 21 of the Drugs Act 2005, reclassifying psilocybe mushrooms as a class A drug alongside heroin and crack cocaine, will come into force on July 18.

From that date, importation, possession or sale of magic mushrooms will be punishable by a life sentence, effectively outlawing sales via market stalls, head shops and the internet.

Laying the statutory instrument before parliament, the Home Office said the only exception would be for wild mushrooms, growing on uncultivated land.
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http://society.guardian.co.uk/drugsandalcohol/story/0,8150,1514399,00.html

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Ezlivin

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Sat Jun-25-05 08:52 AM
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1. Where's Alice to go?

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HysteryDiagnosis

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Sat Jun-25-05 08:54 AM
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2. What are they going to do about medicinal mushrooms?

Edited on Sat Jun-25-05 08:54 AM by 4MoronicYears

http://www.sci.cancerresearchuk.org/labs/med_mush/med_mush.html

"Medicinal mushrooms: their therapeutic properties and current medical usage with special emphasis on cancer treatments."

Authors

JOHN E SMITH BSc MSc PhD DSc FIBiol FRSE
Emeritus Professor of Applied Microbiology, University of Strathclyde
Chief Scientific Officer, MycoBiotech Ltd, Singapore

NEIL J ROWAN BSc MSc PhD MIBiol MIFST
Lecturer, Department of Bioscience, University of Strathclyde

RICHARD SULLIVAN BSc MD PhD
Head of Clinical Programmes, Cancer Research UK

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sweetheart

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Sat Jun-25-05 10:56 AM
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5. The whole thing'll just go underground

This is just another criminalization scam, so they can fill the
prisons and build more prisons by creating more criminals with arbitrary
and stupid laws.

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K-W

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Sat Jun-25-05 11:12 AM
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6. This wont effect them.

Edited on Sat Jun-25-05 11:12 AM by K-W

The law will outlaw psilocybin containing mushrooms, if you dont trip off it, it wont be illegal.

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LondonAmerican

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Sat Jun-25-05 08:56 AM
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3. Disgusting

What business is it of the state whether I want to do mushrooms (or acid, e or anything else) as long as I don't harm anyone else by doing so.

Tony Blur really needs to stop mindlessly aping all of the US positions and policies.

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K-W

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Sat Jun-25-05 09:10 AM
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4. Pointless restrictions on liberty.

Edited on Sat Jun-25-05 09:10 AM by K-W

Luckily for schroomers the things are terrifically easy to grow.

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Zhade

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:28 PM
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7. LIFE FOR POSSESSION?

We don't even do that here in THIS fascist country!

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