jewunit said:

That would just create a black market for tickets from locals. Locals show up, get a bunch of tickets, and wait a couple days then start selling them to people who don't want to wait.

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As far as this idea goes, it's based on what seems to be an assumption that the people who have died consumed the mushrooms after smoking a drinking and therefore weren't in the proper mindset (which some would argue is kind of a ridiculous idea anyway.) Can you back that up with fact or no? Who's to say that they aren't just going to drink and smoke and take mushrooms after the wait because they make the decision that they want to get obliterated while they're sober, not drunk/high?

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jewunit said:

That would just create a black market for tickets from locals. Locals show up, get a bunch of tickets, and wait a couple days then start selling them to people who don't want to wait.

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Or, locals could just cultivate them and sell them, defeating the purpose of legalization.

I think education (whether it's in the form of pamphlets or something else) is the only way to curb irresponsible use.  A waiting period may have benefits, but I am hesitant to support such an initiative because to me it sounds like we are conceding that mushrooms are an inherently dangerous substance.  It draws an ugly parallel between psilocybin and guns.  It just seems like a step backward in global drug policy reform.

I think it's obvious that this recent rash of news articles is a result of somebody's (not sure which organization's) engineered anti-drug campaign, and are not commonplace incidents.  There are always few details, but they never forget to mention that the person took mushrooms.  It has come out now that the guy who killed the dog was a bona fide nutcase, but the damage has been done; all over the world right now there are high school kids telling each other that mushrooms make you stab animals.

Oi.

Cowgold said:

I wouldn't want to wait. 

The publicity from the tourists fucking up isn't anyone's fault.  I like the pamphlets and educational approach, though.  Be cool if they had trip guides that encouraged set and setting as well as providing a chill and contageous element to the group collective.

Sucks they feel they need to change things and hopefuly they won't have to.

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badchad said:

How does waiting 5 days increase somebody's knowledge about "what they are getting themselves into" when taking a psychedelic? I realize the waiting period is supposed to allow people to become knowledgeable about the effects, but reading pamphlets is not mandatory.

And as someone else hinted at; if I'm so drunk, high, and stoned that I leap to my death after consuming mushrooms, why does it matter if I do it on the first day of my vacation or the fifth?

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badchad said:

No, but then you need to consider at what point being "helpful" starts to limit a person's essential rights.

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If you are heading in the direction of "education" I feel there are better ways to ensure somebody actually pays attention to the material they are presented.

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In this case there is a good chance someone will wait 5 days for their mushrooms, throw away their pamphlet upon leaving the store and only delay the potential harms of psilocybin by 3-5 days.

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Essen said:

But really, they should just do a better job of informing people the nature of shrooms. It's not meant to get you 'fucked up,' but to expand your mind.

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OneLessForeskin said:

What do you guys think of this modest proposal?

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I love the idea.  That way dumb ass friends that I have won't try to tell me that I'm brain fried from mushrooms. 

Even though I only did them a handful of times. 

Fuck those ignorant people and the bandwagon they came on.

jewunit said:

Essen said:

But really, they should just do a better job of informing people the nature of shrooms. It's not meant to get you 'fucked up,' but to expand your mind.

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If anything they are meant to produce psilocybin as an evolutionary mechanism to keep animals away from eating them. Who are you to say whether or not it's okay for people to take them to get fucked up.

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I don't think they are 'meant' to be anything.  That would imply some sort of divine will is responsible for their biology.  Mutations do not occur with a purpose; they just occur. Some traits happen to be useful to an organism, and thus are developed and refined through natural selection, some are neutral (and perhaps interesting ) and some are detrimental.

However helpful the presence of psychoactive compounds is to a mushroom, I'm glad they have that trait.