article here (http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/43188.html)

Now I don't believe any drug taking is good for your mental health (and " a friend of mine" has tested most drugs intensively) but Mushrooms are hardly as damaging as crack or Heroin.

is that just in Scotland, or England too?

all Britain........

So were they legal before?

If they were I am gutted I missed out.

As far as I'm aware.

It was legal to pick, grow, sell and take them.

However,

it was illegal to process/treat them to enhance their halucinagenic qualities

you didn't miss much btw...

:shocked: Just wait 'till Phanerothyme hears about this......
I predict a lengthy rant...... :nod:

It was bound to happen eventually when they started selling them in shops.

Looking forward to the lines of rozzers guarding the Peak District this Autumn though... :rolleyes:

it's mushrooms in there fresh state that have been legal (although not to prepare) whereas dried ones have not. i don't really consider them to be a class a drug. i always thought them to be similar to LSD certainly not the same legal as coke or heroin.

how do drugs get classified anyway ? what criteria is used ?

A few years ago, John Allegro, a biblical scholar, expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and specialist in ancient languages came to the conclusion that early Christianity was essentially a mushroom cult. The mushrooms in question seem to have had hallucinegenic properties. He supported these claims with textual exegesis of various passages in ancient writings. He wrote various works on this theme, including The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross. He seems to have been the academic equivalent of David Icke

A sad thing indeed. However, with them growing naturally all over the place, I can't really see it being policed very easily.

The fact that in recent years many people have started to sell them very publicly probably hasn't helped. It just made the public more aware of them. Ill informed folk started to get paranoid about the country turning into giant crack den and caused enough waves for the government to notice. Prohibition was the obvious answer.

A real pity.

Next on the list is cancelling Christmas....


mean spirited mumble mumble mumble rant...

Originally posted by Draggletail
:shocked: Just wait 'till Phanerothyme hears about this......
I predict a lengthy rant...... :nod:

Way ahead of you - http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?postid=370312#post370312

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Way ahead of you

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
...so grazing will be the order of the day!

Indeed, can just picture rows of students at Fox House, moooing (with the odd giggle) happily!

lol

hmmmmmm how are they going to police something that grows on everybit of greenery in this land every september?

fortunately spores have not yet been made illegal.

I've had another look at this jackass legislation

And, bizarrely, the law only covers the fruiting bodies or actual 'mushrooms' of the fungi, and not the mycelium (the fibrous network structure that forms the bulk of the organism).

So, you can grow fungi legally, just don't let them fruit into mushrooms.

Once again idiotic legislators fail to understand what it is they are trying to legislate against.

Interestingly, mycelium is at least as rich in psilocbin/psilocin as the fruiting bodies are.....

Fly-Agaric is still legal. It's still being sold in at least one shop in Sheffield but I have just found out it's poisonous.

A crazy law. They will be banning cannabis next!

Yes this is a real shame.

It was certainly the threshers style head shops that attracted the attention of the powers that be.

all hallucigenics are poisonous thats why you hallucinate.

yup fly agaric is still legal BUT its also not that widely used to trip on precisisely cos its a lot more poisonous than liberty caps......my mate tried fly agaric once........nutter :P

your supposed to only eat a 1 cm cube or something otherwise it can kill.

magic mushies on the other hand you can go from eating 1 to 500 / 1000 etc

Fly Agaric is used dried and added to tea. Apparently native american indians or such used it on their dreamquests. Something along those lines.

Freshly picked this fungus is slimy and repulsive to touch. It is also a favourite of slugs.

Not something I would suggest people try unless they are very sure of what they are doing. Not a good thing to experiment with.

Dragon

Fly-Agaric is still legal. It's still being sold in at least one shop in Sheffield but I have just found out it's poisonous.

A crazy law. They will be banning cannabis next!

It defies belief, really.

it's totally beyond me how anyone thinks it's ok to ban anything that grows naturally :huh:


warped beyond reason :loopy:

It was the Vikings who used fly agaric - they achieved the mega-violent 'berserker' state through the drug. They knew it was poisonous in the large quantities required for that state, except to certain animals... so they fed it to their reindeers and drank the beasts' urine - now that's the way to do drugs.

I think psilocibe mushrooms were only technically legal if you grazed them off the ground - once you'd put them into a bag or owt, you were technically drying them out in the eyes of the law. To be honest though, the kids of today don't want magic mushrooms, do they?! They want stella, pills and spliff - not some mind-altering experience which opens the doors of perception and changes your view on life for ever. 8)

Do all the shops who sold mushrooms when they were legal and paid tax on them now get a refund by the government and some kind of compensation/redundancy for taking away their livelihood?

Or have they just been criminalised?

mushroom t! its mushroom season soon, drug laws are warped and not weth the paper there written on.

Do all the shops who sold mushrooms when they were legal and paid tax on them now get a refund by the government and some kind of compensation/redundancy for taking away their livelihood?

Or have they just been criminalised?
They have all been criminalised. Although they get very little sympathy from me.

It seems to me, following recent research, that they should be supplied by health food shops instead. Or they should be available on the NHS.

They have all been criminalised. Although they get very little sympathy from me.

What did you have against shops selling them?

What did you have against shops selling them?
see here http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?postid=370312#post370312

incidentally, if a mod is reading this could they pm me the link in the post they removed, to the John Hopkins University Website. Ta.

Aha I see. Good point well made. I'd not thought about it from the angle.

I would PM you Phan- but your box is full!

I see a "field" trip coming up :hihi:

I see a "field" trip coming up :hihi:

Just remember, picking them is illegal. Getting down on you hands and needs and eating them isn't. Just watch out for sheep ****.

Fly Agaric is used dried and added to tea. Apparently native american indians or such used it on their dreamquests. Something along those lines.

Freshly picked this fungus is slimy and repulsive to touch. It is also a favourite of slugs.


It's also good for killing flies, put some in some milk, the flies drink the milk and they drop dead.

It's also good for killing flies, put some in some milk, the flies drink the milk and they drop dead.
.....drop dead of terror.
They hallucinate and think they've turned into a human :D

Since it's that time of year again (there were dozens out on my Sunday walk) I thought it timely to dig this one out of the archives......remember people, they're class A drugs now and you're comitting an offence punishable by seven years prison ( for possession) to life (intent to supply).

Seems rather harsh to me...........

wonder how long it will be before you get longer for possession than murder in the United sorry ... divided kingdom.

wonder how long it will be before you get longer for possession than murder in the United sorry ... divided kingdom.

I guess it's theoretically possible now Ian. Not good.

Just remember, picking them is illegal. Getting down on you hands and needs and eating them isn't. Just watch out for sheep ****.

I wonder if this has been tested in court?

This may pose a problem, as one of the walkers is trying to organise a Mushroom Walk....

The Valley is green when you walk in - but greener when you walk out.

This may pose a problem, as one of the walkers is trying to organise a Mushroom Walk....

The Valley is green when you walk in - but greener when you walk out.

Nah, you'll be fine - this is Taxman we're talking right? Model of social responsibility.:)

Since it's that time of year again (there were dozens out on my Sunday walk) I thought it timely to dig this one out of the archives......remember people, they're class A drugs now and you're comitting an offence punishable by seven years prison ( for possession) to life (intent to supply).

Seems rather harsh to me...........

Can someone remind me of the logic of criminalising some drugs but not alcohol which is the biggest menace of all?

Nah, you'll be fine - this is Taxman we're talking right? Model of social responsibility.:)

:hihi:.............

does that mean i cant pick the mushrooms that have sprung up in my garden? its a nice red one

I saw Clarissa Dixon Wright fessing up to taking shrooms on the One Show this week....:cool:

does that mean i cant pick the mushrooms that have sprung up in my garden? its a nice red one

If it's red, then you can legally pick it.

Better arrest God for leaving the mushrooms there in the first place.

I saw Clarissa Dixon Wright fessing up to taking shrooms on the One Show this week....:cool:

She used to smoke pot with Jack Straw too.

I haven't been but a friend got 100s and 000s :)

I haven't been but a friend got 100s and 000s :)

You have such a wonderful friends, I'm sure I'd get on really well with the said person.:)

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Can someone remind me of the logic of criminalising some drugs but not alcohol which is the biggest menace of all?

I wouldn't think it's anything to do with what generates the most taxable income for our government.