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'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA]
#9668504 - 01/23/09 10:44 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court January 23, 2009 - dailynews.com
A Westlake Village man charged with selling hallucinogenic mushrooms that caused a teen to wander naked onto a Southern California freeway, where she was killed by a car, is scheduled to make an initial appearance today before a federal judge in Los Angeles.
Steven Thomas Roman, 30, was arrested by federal agents on Thursday at a Ventura County lockup, where he had been held since his September arrest on suspicion of sales of the club drug Ecstasy, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The federal case dates back to August 2004, when a group of young people gathered in an apartment complex in Thousand Oaks, according to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
At some point, one of the teens contacted a man -- later identified as Roman -- and ordered a quantity of psilocybin "magic mushrooms," the court document alleges.
After Roman delivered the drugs, the group ate the mushrooms and a 17- year-old girl identified in court papers only as V.N. began having a "bizarre" reaction, prosecutors allege.
Friends attempted to lock her in a room, but the teen escaped and was walking naked on the Ventura (101) Freeway in Newbury Park in the middle of the night when she was struck and killed, according to an affidavit.
Investigators determined the driver was not to blame for the girl's death and that she had drugs in her system, including the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Last fall, Roman was arrested by Ventura County sheriff's investigators after he twice allegedly sold Ecstasy pills to an undercover informant.
During a post-arrest interview, Roman allegedly admitted that four years earlier, he had sold the psilocybin mushrooms to the group that included the girl who died on the freeway.
Roman has been in custody since the Ecstasy-related arrest on Sept. 10. Federal officials charged him Wednesday with felony distribution of controlled substances, specifically Ecstasy and psilocybin mushrooms, and transferred him to federal custody the following day.
If convicted, Roman faces a statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison.
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: veggie]
#9668695 - 01/23/09 11:14 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Look at how money people tobacco and alcohol kills each year. Why aren't we locking them up too
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#9668996 - 01/24/09 12:02 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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events like these are so hard for me to believe. i'm still quite aware of the consequences of running into a freeway when under the influence.
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: initiatethehello]
#9669173 - 01/24/09 12:38 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Aren't all reactions to psilocybin "bizarre"? All of mine have been. A proper education about dealing with difficult psychedelic experiences would have served that group well.
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#9669203 - 01/24/09 12:46 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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could you imagine running over naked girl, tripping on mushrooms?
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: clorox]
#9669274 - 01/24/09 01:11 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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wasn't this just brought up in an anonymous post recently?...
kinda verifies it....
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: Tripp420]
#9669571 - 01/24/09 04:10 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Roman allegedly admitted that four years earlier, he had sold the psilocybin mushrooms to the group that included the girl who died on the freeway.
He remembered who he sold mucks to FOUR YEARS AGO?
Anyone else find this a little difficult to swallow? Maybe she was a regular customer...?
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: Irieforester]
#9669621 - 01/24/09 05:04 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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if he knew that some one he slanged to died on HIS drugs, then he might remember. i mean, that sorta shit doesnt happen every day
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: impgl]
#9669718 - 01/24/09 06:26 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Haha, Idk how he could know that they were his shrooms tho, people buy from more than one person and always save their shrooms
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: neopet nub]
#9669784 - 01/24/09 06:57 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is pretty sad. If they were legal people wouldn't use them irresponsibly nearly as much and they'd have safe places to trip.
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: InTheRainySeason]
#9669829 - 01/24/09 07:31 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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wtf you don't arrest the gun salesman after a murder
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: robothax]
#9669982 - 01/24/09 08:42 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don't sell to kids, don't sell at all unless you feel that is worth the risk (and what most jobs pay for the work your doing, it sure is).
I'm sure he feels bad enough, but probably denies responsibility....the girl seems pretty average. They seem to think that since life is easy being a girl that drugs will work out for them.
Another stupid tripper, hell a girl got mad at someone and walked out on a freeway once (sober I believe) and got hit by a car.......I'd blame the person before the drug but obviously the drug had influence. Another reason to have legal shaman to guide people, yet people would still do it on their own if they wanted to.
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: TreeMoss]
#9670027 - 01/24/09 08:55 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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anyone else notice that the driver who hit the girl is getting off scot free
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: traviedigital]
#9670124 - 01/24/09 09:25 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Having regulated drugs where you had to take them in a designated area of a town with a certified shaman would be awesome
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#9670442 - 01/24/09 10:59 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: traviedigital]
#9670666 - 01/24/09 11:59 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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traviedigital said: anyone else notice that the driver who hit the girl is getting off scot free
Yep, it's just easier to convict the "scum of the earth" "drug dealers". It blows my mind how delusional people are about sharing a perspective.........drugs and people that sell them get more time than murderers and rapist if they got caught with enough.
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: TreeMoss]
#9670682 - 01/24/09 12:03 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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The funny part is SSRI's have been known to make people go way crazy ass fucking bazirk........and courts STILL don't recognize that as a truth...because the FDA regulates those drugs and found nothing wrong, but did make drug companies put a warning with the drug but only for minors (which tend to go crazy on them more than older people, but older people still go crazy on them too).
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: TreeMoss]
#9671258 - 01/24/09 02:08 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I call these "causation" laws, and they really are an attack on personal liberty. So if you sell someone mushrooms and they die, not due to the drugs but their own actions, YOU can be held liable? For someone else's irresponsibility?
Where I used to live, people would get drunk, piss off of the edge of the cliffs, and one or two would fall to their deaths yearly. So does that make the liquor store owner liable? How about the distributor who trucked the cans of beer there? How about the alcohol company? The only people at fault are the ones who decide to pee off the cliffs.
If there is anyone "responsible" for this girl's accident, it is the government who denies people access to safety information, but supplies them with propaganda.
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: Green_T]
#9671350 - 01/24/09 02:26 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is sad for real.
He shouldn't be held responsible imo, if he wouldn't have supplied em she/group would have got them another way. He didn't force anybody to buy anything off him, the girl made the choice to consume them willingly therefor SHE is responsible.
I really wish people who decide to use any drug especially psychedelics to do some research and learn about what in the fuck there doing. It gets me angry that like 95% of drug users are completely clueless on the subject.
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Re: 'Magic mushrooms' case heads to federal court [CA] [Re: Green_T]
#9671598 - 01/24/09 03:18 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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green_titan said: I call these "causation" laws, and they really are an attack on personal liberty. So if you sell someone mushrooms and they die, not due to the drugs but their own actions, YOU can be held liable? For someone else's irresponsibility?
If you notice, the article only states that the man is being charged with federal drug laws; it doesn't appear he is being charged for the girl's death.
And as for the driver who struck her "getting off scott free," investigators found that he had done nothing wrong. Is it really the driver's fault if someone is running around on the freeway? I see no way the driver could be held responsible unless he was drunk/under the influence of something else at the time.
Anyhow, I lived where this happened when it did and it's really a shame, but to blame the dealer or the driver is wrong. The blame belongs squarely on the girl and perhaps her friends who maybe could have done more to ensure her safety.
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