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Hello fellow psychonauts! We have some funny news about
the dutch government and sad news about mushrooms in the UK!
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - There's a whiff of crisis in the air at the Dutch Health Ministry: It's sitting on a pile of pot that it just can't sell. The Netherlands rolled out a program last year that allows patients to buy prescription marijuana at any pharmacy. Some medical insurance policies cover at least part of the cost, but often not enough to offset the pharmacy price. In a country where any adult can walk into a "coffee shop" and smoke a joint for much less than the government price, many say the experiment is a bust. "I think it's a shame that they can't deliver a cannabis product a little bit cheaper than the coffee shops," said David Watson, head of Hortapharm, an Amsterdam-based company licensed to research and develop cannabis for pharmaceutical use. "Why is it that a legal commodity is more expensive than an illegal commodity?" The government says packaging and distribution push up its prices, and acknowledges its program may be foundering. Of some 450 pounds in anticipated sales, only about 175 pounds have been sold, said Bas Kuik, spokesman for the Office of Medicinal Cannabis, an arm of the Dutch Ministry of Health. The government sells two varieties ranging from about €10 to €12 a gram - enough for up to four joints. Coffee shops sell it for €5 a gram, with only the highest-quality weed fetching prices comparable to the government's. No fun for fungus fans in the UK; Magic mushrooms rethink. Timothy Leary,
the intellectual cheerleader of chemical transcendence, said that when
he ate magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960 he learnt more in four hours
than in all his years as a psychologist. Forty-four years later, seekers of knowledge need only take a stroll
along one of London's famous high streets and visit one of the many
"shroom shops" to test his theory. Furthermore, they can do it without
breaking the law. To prove the point, many of the shop owners display copies of a letter
written by a Home Office official which makes it clear that there is
nothing illegal in the trade of freshly picked magic mushrooms. But their legal sale appears to be about to end after ministers moved
to tighten the loophole. Under the current law the psilocybe mushroom,
or magic mushroom is not a controlled substance but the hallucinogen,
psilocin, that it contains, is classified as Class A drug. Provided the gatherer does not commercially "prepare" the mushroom
- by freezing them, drying them or using them to make tea - before selling
them they are not committing a criminal offence. But the shift in policy signals a new zero-tolerance, meaning the sale
of unprepared mushrooms could now be illegal. If you have any question
about plants, herbs or for example mushrooms you can always ask your
question on the Psychonaut forum.
This forum is a part of the Azarius website and has a lot of visitors
every day. You can find discussions about 'the war on drugs' and experiences
of our customers.
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