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Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA]
#7208672 - 07/22/07 12:24 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Mushroom discovery surprises cops July 22, 2007 - vindy.com
SHARON, Pa. — Though mushrooms can often be found growing wild, what Sharon police officers found last month in a Meek Street home was a whole different story.
Nearly 100 Mason jars and blue plastic storage totes inside were cultivating hallucinogenic mushrooms. They are illegal in this country and are considered in the same class of drugs as LSD.
"We've run into a few people who've taken them before, but never growing them," said Sharon Police Chief Mike Menster. "The whole house was filled with these containers and Mason jars."
The mushrooms are so rare that police didn't know what they were at first. They had to call in a special unit of the Pennsylvania State Police to help identify them.
Though the state police could identify the drugs, a 22-year veteran of the vice squad, which covers a five-county region, including Mercer County, said he's never run across them before they were found in this Sharon home.
Cpl. Tim Wiles, supervisor of the Butler-based unit, said the only similar drug he has run across in his career is peyote, a hallucinogen produced from cactuses usually found in the desert.
But peyote was not widely used here and usually found only when the rock band Grateful Dead was touring in the region, he said.
Because the hallucinogenic mushrooms are so uncommon, neither law enforcement agency could place a value on what officers discovered in the Meek Street home.
The owner of the Meek Street home is free on $10,000 bond and is awaiting trial in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.
What the drug is
The National Drug Intelligence Center, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, classifies "magic mushrooms" as psilocybin mushrooms, a hallucinogen indigenous to tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Mexico and the United States.
While they can grow wild in some tropical areas, hallucinogenic mushrooms grown in this region must be specially cultivated with mold spores and other ingredients. They also require special temperature control.
They are ingested orally by users and can be eaten fresh or dried. Some are brewed as tea or added to other foods to mask their bitter flavor.
Popular at raves, clubs and on college campuses, they are generally used by teenagers and young adults, according to the National Drug Intelligence Center.
But, the NDIC says it's difficult to gauge the extent of mushrooms' use in this country.
Studying the effects
One study by the University of Michigan revealed that 9.2 percent of high school seniors in the United States used hallucinogens other than LSD — a category that includes magic mushrooms — at least once in their life. And 2 percent used hallucinogens other than LSD in the past month, according to those studied.
Roland Griffiths, a researcher and professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, conducted a government-funded study in 2006 on the effects of psilocybin — the hallucinogenic ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms.
Thirty-six volunteers were given psilocybin in a controlled laboratory, and the effects of the drug were then observed.
According to the study, the effects ranged from severe anxiety and fear to what some participants described as mystical experiences.
Psilocybin has been used for centuries in a sacred or religious context in Mexico and South America, Griffiths said last week.
He noted that he is not an advocate for or against the use of such hallucinogenic drugs, but his purpose was to study the effects.
The study notes that these types of drugs, while labeled in the government's most restrictive category under illegal drugs, are not considered to be "drugs of addiction" because they do not produce compulsive drug-seeking behavior as do drugs such as cocaine, heroin and alcohol.
The study adds that most recreational users of these hallucinogenic drugs decrease or stop use over time.
The study stresses the volunteers were carefully screened and the amount of psilocybin was carefully monitored.
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: veggie]
#7208911 - 07/22/07 01:54 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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"mold spores"
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: Brainiac]
#7209024 - 07/22/07 03:03 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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damn ...cops :sigh:
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: veggie]
#7209053 - 07/22/07 03:39 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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"According to the study, the effects ranged from severe anxiety and fear to what some participants described as mystical experiences."
goddamn that bit was so fucking watered down. Did they fail to mention that it changed a lot of those 36 people's lives? For the better? Threir families even noted they had become better pepole?
fucking propaganda
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: veggie]
#7209150 - 07/22/07 05:41 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Out on bail"- who was it? 'fess up...
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: veggie]
#7209240 - 07/22/07 06:58 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is one of the most non-bias drug bust articles I've read in awhile. Before you say "fuck the cops," wait to find out how the dude got busted. Maybe it was his fault?
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: Quake3]
#7209277 - 07/22/07 07:20 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quake3 said: Maybe it was his fault?
possibly
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: emit]
#7209535 - 07/22/07 09:34 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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still sucks though...think of all those poor mushrooms...they will never get the chance to change lives in the hands of pigs
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: usefulidiot13]
#7210029 - 07/22/07 12:54 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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This article was full of so many awesome quotes:
- The mushrooms are so rare that police didn't know what they were at first. They had to call in a special unit of the Pennsylvania State Police to help identify them.
- But peyote was not widely used here and usually found only when the rock band Grateful Dead was touring in the region, he said.
Awesome
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angryatbreakfast said: This article was full of so many awesome quotes:
- The mushrooms are so rare that police didn't know what they were at first. They had to call in a special unit of the Pennsylvania State Police to help identify them.
- But peyote was not widely used here and usually found only when the rock band Grateful Dead was touring in the region, he said.
Awesome
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: veggie]
#7211480 - 07/22/07 08:13 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cpl. Tim Wiles, supervisor of the Butler-based unit, said the only similar drug he has run across in his career is peyote, a hallucinogen produced from cactuses usually found in the desert.
and this whole time I thought peyote was it's own plant and mescaline was the hallucinogen produced in peyote and cacti. lol
tim wiles is an idiot
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: Jive turkey]
#7211665 - 07/22/07 08:56 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Its funny to me how people other than the fuzz seem to know much more about drugs than they do. I mean you would think that they would have to know at least something about drugs since they are illegal and cops deal with illegal matters and substances.
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* The mushrooms are so rare that police didn't know what they were at first. They had to call in a special unit of the Pennsylvania State Police to help identify them.
magic mushrooms....rare???
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: 4ZUR35C3N5]
#7212046 - 07/22/07 10:12 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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my buddy and me were blazing in a park once and some cops rolled up and they found a plastic broken pen casing in his backpack and seemed very convinced it was a "crack pipe"...theyr fucking idiots
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: 4ZUR35C3N5]
#7212887 - 07/23/07 03:15 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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yeah man cops are the biggest dumbasses when it comes to drugs..
i once had a cop come in and talk to class in high school
he claimed an ounce of marijuana would be about two cigarette sized joints"
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momoneyinthebank said: yeah man cops are the biggest dumbasses when it comes to drugs..
i once had a cop come in and talk to class in high school
he claimed an ounce of marijuana would be about two cigarette sized joints"
They're called "doobies" here in jamaica... where you from? baby-ville?!
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: I2ancid]
#7218151 - 07/24/07 01:24 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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I2ancid said:
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momoneyinthebank said: yeah man cops are the biggest dumbasses when it comes to drugs..
i once had a cop come in and talk to class in high school
he claimed an ounce of marijuana would be about two cigarette sized joints"
They're called "doobies" here in jamaica... where you from? baby-ville?!
Haha
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7642576 - 11/16/07 12:26 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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In my experience, cops have no idea about mushrooms and are even mystified by them themselves. I live in a relatively small town of about 14,000 and i was busted with an 8th bag of some good mushrooms and was tripping off of another 8th at the time of arrest. The police were actually interested in me because they had never seen anyone tripping or really ran across mushrooms. They called in like 5 other cars to come look at them and i'm pretty sure my bag actually got pinched by them (not like i care lol). They were all saying stuff like," Wow, this is the kind of stuff you only read about in like magazines and stuff. These are really magic mushrooms!" The whole time i was sitting in the cop car frying my balls off and they were equally as interested in that. They turned on some Boston for me and the lights fucked with me hard. They also took sick pleasure in flashing their flashlight at me and making me look away cause i was scared of it.
Pigs are stupid and suck. I wish i had those mushrooms he lost, cause i'd eat em all right now and go on a month-long journey.
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momoneyinthebank said: yeah man cops are the biggest dumbasses when it comes to drugs..
i once had a cop come in and talk to class in high school
he claimed an ounce of marijuana would be about two cigarette sized joints"
I'll sell you an oz. rofl
Lol sorry for double post but i couldn't resist.
Edit: I don't know about you guys, but i sure am glad that we have educated people who know lots about drugs and their dangers like these genius officers and legislators making decisions on what we are allowed to do with our bodies and consciousness.
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Edited by archetype (11/16/07 12:33 AM)
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Re: Mushroom discovery surprises cops [PA] [Re: archetype]
#7642866 - 11/16/07 02:43 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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hallucinogenic mushrooms grown in this region must be specially cultivated with mold spores and other ingredients.
Seriously.... Where the hell are they getting their info from?? Just some kids who were friends of the growers? Or perhaps a horrible misinterpretation on the part of the interviewer??
Holy crap, that is DUMB.
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