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#28003143 - 10/17/22 01:46 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars nypost.com
These candy bars are a real trip.
Some Big Apple smoke shops are selling “magic mushroom” psilocybin bars to anyone looking for a psychedelic kick, The Post has learned.
“I took five pieces of that — stupidest decision I’ve made in my actual life,” said one employee at Convenience Store on Canal Street about his experience with a Mindfull Magic Bar. “I have a high tolerance for weed, so I thought I’d be fine, but it f—ked me up.”
The Post stopped by five storefronts in the East Village and Chinatown hawking chocolate bars whose wrappers advertised containing several grams of psilocybin — the hallucinogenic component in magic mushrooms and a Schedule 1 illegal narcotic — for anywhere between $50 to $90.
A majority of stores had their bars tucked away behind the counter and in zippered bags, bringing them out to see only upon customer request. Many also sell weed candies and vape pens out in the open.
Marijuana is now legal to use and consume under New York State law, but consuming and selling psilocybin is not.
Shop owners face potential felony charges if the candy bars indeed contain the hallucinogenic ingredient, although several employees said that they weren’t worried about a police raid anytime soon.
“The store owners are comfortable because no one’s checking on them,” said Michael Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective and current adjunct professor at John Jay College, about the trippy confections. “No one’s paying them a visit. There’s no threat of repercussions.”
At one smoke shop in the East Village, PolkaDot-brand shroom bars are displayed in a glass counter for all to see, alongside CBD candies and THC vape pens. Employees at the store said that they had sold 40 bars in a little over a week, the vast majority to young women in their early 20s.
“That s–t is freaky,” said Jay Louis, 20, of his experience.
Research has shown that microdosing psilocybin can help treat alcohol addiction, while legislators in New York State have recently been pushing to decriminalize the hallucinogen as well as legalize its medical use.
But Luke Nasta, founder and CEO of Camelot Counseling Centers, sees a difference between giving people access to regulated medical purposes for a drug and letting them casually wolf down sugar-coated hallucinogens to blow their minds.
“Any time you’re using a psychoactive drug, if you have an underlying psychological condition, it’s gonna make it worse,” Nasta said. “It might push you to some extreme behavior.”
Earlier this month, a United Airlines passenger went ballistic mid-flight and assaulted a passenger and flight attendant after ingesting magic mushrooms. Last year in Miami, a man who was tripping fatally shot a 21-year-old father protecting his infant son and allegedly danced on the victim’s body.
An NYPD spokesperson said that the department was not aware of the psilocybin bars in the 5th and 9th Precincts and would investigate. PolkaDot did not respond to a request for comment.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: Ythan]
#28003377 - 10/17/22 04:18 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Great i get the polka dot shroom bars they are good.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: Ythan] 1
#28003617 - 10/17/22 06:47 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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That is the worst thing happening in NYC. People are flooding to the streets like the rats and garbage saying why oh why is this happening?
Crack, heroin/fent, and whores.
DO NOT MAKE MUSHROOMS EASILY AVAILABE. On every street corner and block.
What we is looking for. You got it? Just a joke. Nothing to do with real life and may that and L.A. sink into the ocean as is would be God's will of course. Would anyone really care.
Tool. Flush it away. That was a great concert. Loved it and that vibe, he looked me when I sang to it in one line, flush it all down. That was cool. He knew I got it being born there and what it is now.
But to NYC and the Rats and overpopulation and the filth. Flush it down. Climate change will do it in time. Building like the Netherlands there but just the rich parts.
Music is life, life is music. Let us never lose it and that part of humanity. Art means something as well. Save the planet by destroying some great art with soup. That is the way! Stupid. Destroy the environment, I get it, destroy a wonderful and amazing painting and that will shift peoples minds that control this world.
It will be all people and all culture will go as the plans go into place. Not for them, paid to do it. Just the depopulation of the world and that path. People can corrupt everything in this world of beauty. For power and finances. So many that are so blind to it all. The magicians trick. They got paid to do that no doubt about it to me.
When one gets to the level of just sensing people and their countinance, shills. At the same time listening to Dr. Greer on a podcast, life is going to get interesting in our future. Stop fighting each other. Money rules many but those that it doesn't and gets it gets it. It is not secretive. CONSPIRACY THEORY!
People will hang on to the system as long as they can. Is easy to see through. Time for a song.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: Barnaby]
#28004417 - 10/18/22 09:21 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Counterfeit packaging for this shit is widely available on Amazon. A "Polka Dot bar" could literally be anything.
The "real" ones are likely just synthetic research chemicals. Another reason why people aren't particularly concerned about getting busted for it.
Real, good shrooms are extremely labor-intensive to produce. The grassroots gray market operates on a completely different level, even in NYC. Anyone buying a flashy box of psychedelic bullshit from a headshop or street vendor is just being a fucking clown.
To me, the real crime here is making "chocolate" that's flavored like fruity pebbles, cinnamon toast crunch, etc. But I guess it's appropriate to use fake chocolate for a product containing fake shrooms.
New York City is no better or worse than anywhere else. I can think of plenty of less densely populated regions, on higher ground, that are just as precariously balanced. Our entire civilization runs on the same unsustainable precepts. But whatever. You want to do the Travis Bickle routine, I guess that's your prerogative.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: B Traven]
#28004636 - 10/18/22 12:29 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Knew it was to good to be true. But hard drugs, no problem. Would be interesting if they gave a death sentence, going 3rd world here, to those that deal and sell them and the upper echelon of it.
And it was shrooms, and peyote, and bark and leaves, on the street corners and in stores. Think the city would improve.
Is so amusing the people who have no clue and wow, this is the shit reality we are creating to ourselves and others for the most part?
I don't have all the answers, lol, but would be a great social experiment on the populace. They are doing it and have been for a very long time of course with big PHARMA! It sucks, been through it. Memory. Yet just remembering it my body feels and my, how to put it, inner self, feels it.
Is not esoteric. That is my process at this time in my life is combining the two. Body and mind.
This article I had hope for but like a magician just another false hope and one gets the trick of it. Thank you for clarifying it. Was thinking of New York to go and vacation. That is the wonderful thing of the Shroomery, yes there is a lot of bullshit but why would someone post that for no reason? So I trust it.
Spent way to much time in a cell and probation. Prisoners and parole, not going to experience that. When people come to their senses, for profit and lobbyists and politicians for prison and county, in coming times with war and the environment and its continued destructing of a living habitat for us humans, animals, blah, people will start to see what really matters in life. And many choices will be made. Fun to be alive at this time.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: Barnaby]
#28004693 - 10/18/22 01:07 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Oh, yeah, you should definitely go for vacation if you want to.
I think it's a great place to visit for someone who's been locked up. They've just got way too much going on right now, and can't be bothered with what the plebes are up to. They'll find just about any excuse they can to NOT lock someone up. Or even acknowledge that a minor infraction occurred. Plus, you just can't have that many people coexisting without a live-and-let-live attitude amongst the populace.
You might be surprised how much people know and partake of the entheogens in NYC. It's a huge city so there's always room for clowns, but also lots of OG artistic types and people who use the herb and the fungus to get through their crappy work weeks. It's also a place for a meeting of the minds from all around the northeast.
Walking into a storefront to buy drugs in NYC is really just catering to instant gratification. Anyone with a tiny bit of time on their hands, and the bare minimum amount of social skills and street smarts, can pretty much get whatever they want via word-of-mouth.
It's the greed writ large that makes it hellish, but also the daily kindnesses and courtesies of the common folk that make it livable.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: B Traven] 2
#28004756 - 10/18/22 01:55 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Have Halloween planned out in L.A. Haven't been to New York for a very long time. Is so strange how NYC and LA are so the same but so different.
Also like Dune and read all the books and saw the Lynch movie and the new one. Herbert and his world and thinking is on par with many others IMO. Read so much of it as my roommate had a collection of it in a week and it changed me in a way which was good. Was like in a trance walking in the outside world.
But yeah, NYC, thinking New Years Eve, not trying to impress, just it would be a good reason for going there as I want to see it and be part of it. The most touristy thing I know but I think the vibe of the crowd would be great. Are masks required again, don't know, but whatever.
Good to know. Can ask around. HE HAS THE FEAR! From a different book. People get that when they go through hell from ignorance for a time. I get the street intellect and sense it well from experience. just good to know police let it slide.
People fear all the wrong things.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: B Traven]
#28006294 - 10/19/22 11:08 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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B Traven said: Counterfeit packaging for this shit is widely available on Amazon. A "Polka Dot bar" could literally be anything.
The "real" ones are likely just synthetic research chemicals. Another reason why people aren't particularly concerned about getting busted for it.
I haven't tried Polka Dots, but I have tried other brands. In my experience, it's easy to tell if you have a legit bar - you can both smell and taste cubensis when you eat it, despite the chocolate. That, plus the lack of a bitter, metallic taste (typical of RCs), means you likely have a good bar.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: jgotti]
#28006434 - 10/19/22 12:51 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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B Traven said: Counterfeit packaging for this shit is widely available on Amazon. A "Polka Dot bar" could literally be anything.
The "real" ones are likely just synthetic research chemicals. Another reason why people aren't particularly concerned about getting busted for it.
I haven't tried Polka Dots, but I have tried other brands. In my experience, it's easy to tell if you have a legit bar - you can both smell and taste cubensis when you eat it, despite the chocolate. That, plus the lack of a bitter, metallic taste (typical of RCs), means you likely have a good bar.
And I'm guessing those are "counterfeit." I just don't see a flashy place in Oakland shipping cubensis-laden chocolate bars nationwide with no intervention from the feds.
A brand that's local to CA or Oregon would be slightly different, I imagine.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: B Traven]
#28006480 - 10/19/22 01:33 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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And I'm guessing those are "counterfeit." I just don't see a flashy place in Oakland shipping cubensis-laden chocolate bars nationwide with no intervention from the feds.
A brand that's local to CA or Oregon would be slightly different, I imagine.
Are you kidding? Have you ever heard of illicit drug dealing? A ton of legit products sold out West make their way back East (the profit margins are huge, by the way, as us East-coasters get gouged, paying a significantly higher price than peeps out West). Mostly weed products initially, but now mushroom products as well.
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> And I'm guessing those are "counterfeit."
Again, it's easy to tell. Real ones taste like...drum roll...cubes. And no hint of an RC.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: jgotti]
#28006644 - 10/19/22 03:34 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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I think you might have missed what I was trying to say.
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Re: NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars [Re: B Traven] 1
#28007308 - 10/20/22 01:18 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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There's "magic mushroom" bars all over the country in certain CBD/headshops, especially in and near decriminalized cities. There's a shop right down the street from me that sells them.
The problem is there's no quality control for any of it. Like others have stated, OneUp, Polkadot packaging and other chocolate bar packaging can literally be purchased by anyone and anything can be inside, from rcs, to actual mushrooms if you're lucky.
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