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Shiithead
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NOCO Man Busted with Shrooms After Fire(Arson) Investigation.
#21742194 - 05/30/15 06:47 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Weld County Drug Task Force seizes 'psychedelic' mushroom grow operation
What began as an arson investigation quickly ended with the arrest of a Weld County man for manufacturing a controlled substance when investigators discovered a “psychedelic” mushroom grow operation while clearing a house after a fire.
On April 24, a Platteville police officer called the Greeley Police Department seeking assistance from the Weld County Drug Task Force after responding to a structure fire in the 13000 block of Weld County Road 38, about 3 1/2 miles north of Platteville. After the fire was extinguished, Platteville officers found a small marijuana grow operation consisting of eight plants, as well as several jars containing what was presumably hash oil, according to court records.
Greeley police were directed by the Weld District Attorney’s Office to launch an investigation into a possible arson. The investigation took a sudden turn before it even began when a Platteville officer called Greeley police about 30 minutes later to report they had also found what appeared to be a psilocybin mushroom grow operation in a spare bedroom, records stated.
As drug task force officers investigated the home, Greeley police interviewed the resident — later identified as Tyler Blanks, 36.
Blanks — who lived at the home with his wife, Brandi, and their young daughter — told police he is a horticulturist by education, with a valid medical marijuana license, and that he grows marijuana to ease symptoms he suffers from migraines. Although he initially tried to pass the mushrooms off as being organic, he quickly conceded that they were in fact illegal “psychedelic” or “magic” mushrooms, but assured officers he only used them for medicinal purposes, also to ease his migraine symptoms.
There was a time when psychologists experimented with psilocybin for the potential treatment of depression, anxiety and other mental disorders, most famously by Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary and his colleagues during their Harvard Psilocybin Project of the 1960s, according to Harvard University’s website.
Although the drug was not illegal at the time, the Drug Enforcement Administration has since classified psilocybin mushrooms as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, which by its definition means psilocybin has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
During the early morning hours of April 25, drug task force investigators seized 824 grams, or 1.8 pounds, of suspected psilocybin mushrooms at various stages of the growth cycle from the home. They also confiscated two syringes containing fresh psilocybin mushroom spores from Blanks’ refrigerator, records stated.
After they were confirmed to be psilocybin mushrooms by the Northern Colorado Regional Forensic Laboratory, Blanks was arrested on May 15 and booked into Weld County Jail on suspicion of unlawful manufacturing of a Schedule 1 controlled substance, a felony, and misdemeanor child abuse for growing the drug in an uncontrolled space inside a home where a child was residing.
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StygianKnight
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Re: NOCO Man Busted with Shrooms After Fire(Arson) Investigation. [Re: Shiithead]
#21743030 - 05/30/15 10:34 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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"he quickly conceded that they were in fact illegal" No. Don't. Bad! I don't care what the cops say, what you are growing them for is between you and your lawyer.
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D.M.T
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Re: NOCO Man Busted with Shrooms After Fire(Arson) Investigation. [Re: StygianKnight]
#21743131 - 05/30/15 11:21 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice policework. Can't arrest the arsonist, but they can arrest the victim.
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Re: NOCO Man Busted with Shrooms After Fire(Arson) Investigation. [Re: StygianKnight]
#21743444 - 05/31/15 01:01 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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StygianKnight said:
I don't care what the cops say, what you are doing* is between you and your lawyer.
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Re: NOCO Man Busted with Shrooms After Fire(Arson) Investigation. [Re: D.M.T]
#21743449 - 05/31/15 01:04 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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At least the child is now safe with the CPS....
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Re: NOCO Man Busted with Shrooms After Fire(Arson) Investigation. [Re: Shiithead]
#21743511 - 05/31/15 01:32 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Pretty fucked up but that was DUMB to admit the were illegal mushrooms.
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Re: NOCO Man Busted with Shrooms After Fire(Arson) Investigation. [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#21743551 - 05/31/15 01:47 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cognitive_Shift said: Pretty fucked up but that was DUMB to admit the were illegal mushrooms.
They always send it off to the labs either way but nonetheless, (yes it is one word) agreed. Quote:
Never admit fault.
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Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Psalm 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
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Re: NOCO Man Busted with Shrooms After Fire(Arson) Investigation. [Re: Shiithead]
#21748005 - 06/01/15 11:21 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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it really sucks that they stuck child abuse on there. What an oppressive, anti-psychedelic system.
Ooh, two syringes. Growing mushies for a hobby. I bet they added the weight of the substrate too. He was a super bad guy and a horrible dad
And of course they would have tested the mushies no matter what he said. They already found a weed grow.
Edited by Fractal420 (06/01/15 11:23 AM)
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Re: NOCO Man Busted with Shrooms After Fire(Arson) Investigation. [Re: Fractal420]
#21757019 - 06/03/15 11:13 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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One more reason to learn to find them in the wild. Those fucking "manufacturing" charges and weighing the substrate and everything else seems to be the norm in this kind of thing.
Bottom line is that they need to be rescheduled like they should have always been...Schedule 1 is ridiculous and just gives cops hard ons when they find something like this.
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