mushrooms

[gingerflaps]

i would like to know why the government have made magic mushrooms and everything to do with 'shroom a class A drug. They grow in woods and forests, they are totally natural, they are not addictive and are not dangerous. If someone wanted to pick daisy's and eat them then it would be ok, so why all the fuss about mushrooms?

[andyjevs]

They are hulucenogenic (spelling ?)....they can give you good trips or they can give you trips soooooo evil that it can make you paranoid etc.

I'm sure that you can buy them in supermarkets perfectly legally in the UK.....it's just illegal to bake them or alter their make up in any way.

Each to their own in my opinion but they're not for me. I don't mind a social joint on rare occasions but that's it.

[Kingaroo]

ginger, you could say all the same things about marijuana (except it's not a native species, but it can reproduce and spread on its own, so you could theoretically find a patch in a field). It's the mind-altering characteristics that make it a drug, not whether it's "natural" or not.

[Nickynoodles]

The hallucanagenic ingredient in shrooms is cyllicyben. The only creatures that are reported not to be affected are cows and spiders (though how you would tell if a spider is monged out i'll never know) Did you know that it is only illegal if you dry the mushroom then it is a class A. You can, however sit in a field, in front of a copper and consume the shrooms fresh - (unless the law has changed) - I would not recommend them to anyone having had a bad experience with a "furby" and the Spice Girls song "Holler" - which went on for 4 hours, I am staying well away!!!! (maybe)

[mycatis]

Yeah as far as I know, that has always been the law. As soon as you do anything to them, dry, brew etc, they become a class a drug but otherwise...
By the way I love shrooms!!

[mycatis]

Sorry my mistake :-(, looks like they changed it, bummer!
"There was once a time when picking and taking fresh magic mushrooms was perfectly legal. This time has now come to an end. Read on for the new rules on shrooms.
The law
Until recently, the sale of fresh magic mushrooms was legal due to a loophole in the law. The Drugs Bill 2005 has now closed this loophole.
Magic mushrooms contain psilocybin and psilocin and under the Misuse of Drugs Act these hallucinogenic chemicals are class A drugs like heroin, crack and cocaine. The new bill will class fresh magic mushrooms as a "preparation" of psilocin or psilocybin, and therefore possession of magic mushrooms (fresh and prepared) is now illegal."

[astronaut]

gingerflaps, you've obviously never met a person 30 years down the line after including this natural wonder in their diet. Each to their own, but flashbacks aren't funny,and at the end of the day mental health problems are becoming a terrible burden on the tax-payer, drugs in any shape or form DO harm someome, somewhere, sometime.

[orange-gnome]

the whole its totally natural thing is just odd because so is poison ivy but it doesn't mean that it won't harm you!!!

[logman]

I think astronaut'* *** the nail on the head imagine dabbling with shrooms, amazing experiance maybe ?, then you get a flashback, weeks/months later, when driving your car or just crossing the road..