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ezone
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Heres some stuff about the Psilocin ban from the web [Re: blackout]
#5306209 - 02/16/06 10:19 AM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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Heres some stuff about the Psilocin ban from the web
On Forums
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054883032
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054883381
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054886157
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5201525/page/0/fpart/all/vc/1
http://www.drugs-forum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=15365
http://www.drugs-forum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=15738 - sticky Thread
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=240262
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=239675
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=149716
http://forums.lycaeum.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=8&t=001522
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ie-cannabis/messages
The Irish Times Poll 52% against ban
http://scripts.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/regularvote.cfm?pollid=2162
Blogs
http://www.irishblogs.ie/similar.php?p=28905
Knowledge + History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Psilocybe_semilanceata.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_cap_%28mushroom%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psylocibin
http://www.hermetic.com/bey/pw-irishsoma.html
Newspapers
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=36&si=1555798&issue_id=13638
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1555604&issue_id=13638
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18004955-5001028,00.html
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/155970
From Sunday Independent 5th FEb.
Can magic mushrooms be made to disappear?
HOW many people, who are previous or potential users of magic mushrooms won't take them now that they have been banned?
Will the police begin patrolling shady fields all over the country, organising sting operations on the crowds of autumn walkers who are out hoarding?
Last week, Minister for Health Mary Harney outlawed the possession and supply of magic mushrooms, a fungus that grows naturally and in abundance all over the country.
The ban was precipitated by the death of a young man in his thirties, who jumped from the balcony of an apartment in Dun Laoghaire after taking mushrooms.
The case was certainly tragic, but also, it needs to be said, incidences of death which in some way involve consumption of magicmushrooms are incredibly rare.
It is almost physically impossible to overdose on mushrooms, and incidences of psychotic episodes which lead to death or serious injury are rare.
In fact an Irish health information website, Irishhealth.com claims that "the greatest danger is from accidentally ingesting mushrooms that are poisonous".
Magic mushrooms, the most common type of which is the Liberty Cap, are hallucinogenic, but there are certain other types of mushroom that, if eaten in error, can cause severe liver damage or even death.
Magic mushrooms are freely available to anyone who knows what to look for, and until recently, had also been available, for convenience sake one presumes, from outlets around the country.
Without the premiums that illegality imposes, they were cheap, and natural.
As opposed to all other recreational drugs, which are supplied by criminals, and mixed and cut with other chemicals and substances, consumers of magic mushrooms know exactly what they are ingesting.
Their widespread use, until now, has never lined the pockets of the criminal gangs in Dublin and beyond.
That magic mushrooms will continue to be sold on the black market in Ireland is a certainty. Thankfully, because they can be found so easily for free, they are unlikely to ever be abig money spinner for drug dealers.
Instead, the numbers of people who head off on seasonal pilgrimages from the city to Wicklow or Kildare or further afield, in search of fields with shade and sheep, (supposedly the best places to find them) will increase, and the danger of accidentally taking mushrooms that are actually poisonous will be increased. Regardless, the humble Liberty Cap continues to be laid out to dry on radiators and in hot presses all over the country.
Always the least seamy and most innocuous of the recreational drug family, magic mushrooms are arguably far less harmful to the individual and to society as a whole than either alcohol or cigarettes.
and finally Boo !
http://sinnfein.ie/news/detail/12850
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Re: Heres some stuff about the Psilocin ban from the web [Re: ezone]
#5306275 - 02/16/06 10:34 AM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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must have been hurting sinn feins LSD sales...
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abrad84
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Re: Heres some stuff about the Psilocin ban from the web [Re: blackout]
#5306440 - 02/16/06 11:16 AM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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Very interesting quote from one of the articles posted above http://www.unison.ie/irish_independe...issue_id=13638
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Speaking about the legislation change on Today FM's The Last Word, Minister Noel Ahern said: "The change in the law is to deal with the selling of these mushrooms. There is no change about those found in procession of the drug, unless it emerges that the quantities involved show a clear intent to sell, that's a different matter.
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Re: Heres some stuff about the Psilocin ban from the web [Re: abrad84]
#5319039 - 02/20/06 09:21 AM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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Noel Ahern demonstrates once again that he doesn't know anything about drugs or the drugs law, despite being the minister with responsibility for drugs...
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