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Bridgeburner
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Dutch "magic mushroom" vendors seek court order against ban
#9321972 - 11/27/08 12:27 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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A body representing Dutch "magic mushroom" vendors sought an urgent court order Tuesday to halt a health ministry ban on the sale of the hallucinogenics pending a final ruling on the issue. ADVERTISEMENT
The petition was filed by the vendors' association VLOS at the district court in The Hague which is expected to deliver its verdict on Friday, officials and the group said.
"The minister must reconsider the issue," Paul van Oyen, a spokesman for the association told AFP.
"His decision to ban mushrooms infringes the drugs laws because he is unable to prove the danger they allegedly represent."
The ban introduced by Health Minister Ab Klink and adopted by parliament would stop the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms from December 1.
Klink believes consumption of the mushrooms, sold in the Netherlands in so-called smart shops, "can lead to unpredictable and risky behaviour".
The death in March last year of a French teenager who had taken mushrooms before jumping to her death from an Amsterdam bridge, reignited the debate over the hallucinogenic fungi.
Though no link had been established between the product and the girl's death, it led a majority of lawmakers to call for a ban.
According to Amsterdam health services, where more than a quarter of the country's smart shops are to be found, more than 90 percent of the 1.5 million to two million doses consumed every year are bought by foreign tourists.
Authorities drew up a list of 186 species of mushrooms whose sale will be banned from December 1. More are expected to follow later.
According to Van Oyen, no investigation had been carried out into the French girl's death "and there is no proof that mushrooms were the cause".
He accused the minister of making his decision on the back of arguments "that are beyond reason".
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ThizzyMarley
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Re: Dutch "magic mushroom" vendors seek court order against ban [Re: Bridgeburner]
#9322557 - 11/27/08 03:01 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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only two words....fuck that why cant people just let the trippers trip and not have to concern themselves with other peoples doings....oh no some girl jumped off a bridge and died how many people die on the daily from car accidents and other things people do on a daily basis
Edited by ThizzyMarley (11/27/08 03:04 PM)
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Re: Dutch "magic mushroom" vendors seek court order against ban [Re: Bridgeburner]
#9322605 - 11/27/08 03:19 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Is it really possible that the magic mushroom industry actually sells 2,000,000 dosis a year? That's anywhere from a 20 million to 50 million euro a year industry at 10-25€ a dose!!!
The Dutch goverment must have too much pressure on them from other governments to crack down on drug tourism.
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ShroomNinja
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Re: Dutch "magic mushroom" vendors seek court order against ban [Re: up_right]
#9322878 - 11/27/08 04:21 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ah man this is well unfortunate. I'm goin for xmas. Looks like they'll all be gone by the time i get there!
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arne
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Re: Dutch "magic mushroom" vendors seek court order against ban [Re: ShroomNinja]
#9323075 - 11/27/08 05:08 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Funniest thing of all is that he got the list of mushrooms off of... wikipedia! It includes a lot of species that are not proven to be psychoactive, such as one particular mushroom that's really small and occurs in almost every lawn in the Netherlands...
The argument of the mushroomsellers is that the law is against a higher law, the so called 'opium-law'. To add an item to the list of illegal substances, it has to be proven that it's bad for the health of the user and society. Of course, there hasn't been proper research to prove this.
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ShroomNinja
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Re: Dutch "magic mushroom" vendors seek court order against ban [Re: arne]
#9323294 - 11/27/08 05:53 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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well it kinda has been proven. 90% of the 2mil sales are to foreign tourists each year. one of those 2 million has died and there's no proven link with the drug.
I'd say that pretty much shows the danger, or lack of!
It'll be a sad day for the drug revolution leaders to fall into the ways of the rest of the world.
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Re: Dutch "magic mushroom" vendors seek court order against ban [Re: ShroomNinja]
#9331197 - 11/29/08 09:07 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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And suddenly the frequency of "home cultivation" in the Netherlands just went WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY up !
Tourists: Now you can obtain dried mushrooms more commonly. So if you want to take a stash back home with you it will be easier.
Nice plan of action gov.
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