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Mushrooms seized; man faces charges [NC]
#5703126 - 06/02/06 07:41 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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June 2, 2006 - newsobserver.com
RALEIGH - Police charged a Wendell man Thursday with growing hundreds of grams of psychedelic mushrooms.
Douglas John Fishman of 6312 Pumpkin Seed Court was charged with the possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver psilocybin, according to records filed Thursday night at the Wake County magistrate's office.
Investigators with the Raleigh Police Department's Criminal Enterprise Unit have accused Fishman of manufacturing and possessing 500 grams of psilocybin mushrooms. The hallucinogenic mushrooms became popular in the 1960s.
Last year, Fishman was found guilty of maintaining a place for a controlled substance, records show. He was sentenced in Wake County District Court to one year probation.
Fishman is in custody at the Wake County jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.
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Re: Mushrooms seized; man faces charges [NC] [Re: veggie]
#5703656 - 06/02/06 11:05 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
The hallucinogenic mushrooms became popular in the 1960s.
Ummm.....how about a few thousand years before that?
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Koala Koolio
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Re: Mushrooms seized; man faces charges [NC] [Re: demiu5]
#5703980 - 06/02/06 12:40 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Oh come on.
I'm aware, just as much as anyone here, of the historical use of mushrooms and other psychedelics.
But he's obviously talking about popular usage in the united states, among our culture (the culture being written about). And while they have been used for many centuries, what evidence is there that they were indeed popular? At least for the past few hundred years, the usage has been extremely scarce and well hidden from the spaniards. Popular it was not. I don't know of any evidence that they were once eaten by an overwhelming amount of the population, but if there's some more info on that, I'd like to read it.
Even if it were popular at one point, there's no denying that it *became* popular to a group of people this past century.
I'd say the usage didn't become popular until the 70's though. If they mean the knowledge/idea/images of mushrooms, 60's is fair. But, in order to actually do them in the 60's, they'd need to come from mexico. They weren't done as commonly as the imagery from the time would suggest. Acid was #1, but mushrooms look trippier than sugar cubes 
The finding of ps. cyans, liberty caps, and cubensis led to a much bigger explosion of picking in the states, in the 70's. I'm sure MJ can provide more details. And soon to follow, the first cultivation of cubensis. Were cubes commonly sold outside of areas that they grew in pastures before the high times spores ads came around and all? Am I right in the assumption that cultivation didn't become popular until those spore advertisements?
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Re: Mushrooms seized; man faces charges [NC] [Re: Koala Koolio]
#5703993 - 06/02/06 12:46 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I was just picking at the writer's lack of descriptive words. Saying "they became popular in the 60's" is not entirely true. To some people/cultures, they were popular; maybe not to everyone, but some.
I'm just being an ass, c'mon man, let me have my fun.
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