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Magic Mushrooms banned
Soon smartshops, of which there are many in the Red Light District of Amsterdam, will not be allowed to sell fresh magic mushrooms anymore. The Netherlands will ban the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms, the government announced, tightening the country's famed liberal drug policies after the suicide of an intoxicated teenage girl.
The ban, in response to the death and other highly publicized adverse reactions involving the fungus, is the latest backlash against the freewheeling policies of the past.
Psilocybin, the main active chemical in the mushrooms, has been illegal under international law since 1971. However, fresh mushrooms continued to be sold legally in the Netherlands along with herbal medicines in so-called smart-shops.
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Soon smartshops, of which there are many in the Red Light District of Amsterdam, will not be allowed to sell fresh magic mushrooms anymore. The Netherlands will ban the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms, the government announced, tightening the country's famed liberal drug policies after the suicide of an intoxicated teenage girl.The ban, in response to the death and other highly publicized adverse reactions involving the fungus, is the latest backlash against the freewheeling policies of the past.
Psilocybin, the main active chemical in the mushrooms, has been illegal under international law since 1971. However, fresh mushrooms continued to be sold legally in the Netherlands along with herbal medicines in so-called smart-shops.
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Mushroom ban takes effect December 2008
Freddy Schaap, a grower of hallucinogenic mushrooms, is bitter about having to lay off half his staff on account of a Dutch government ban on his psychedelic produce.
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Freddy Schaap, a grower of hallucinogenic mushrooms, is bitter about having to lay off half his staff on account of a Dutch government ban on his psychedelic produce."I will have to dismiss at least half of my 16 employees" when the ban on cultivating and selling the so-called magic mushrooms enters into force on December 1, Schaap told AFP on his farm in Tiel in the central Netherlands.
McSmart, the business he created in 2000, produces some 25 tonnes a year of the substance known fondly by users as "shrooms" and in the Netherlands as "paddos".
"The ban makes no sense," protests the 36-year-old entrepreneur, saying he felt angry and deceived.Read More About Mushroom Ban Takes Effect December 2008...
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