These mushrooms have been in use for thousands of years, dating back to the ancient Aztecs for ceremonial and healing purposes. “Teonanacatl” They grow naturally and when studied, it is shown that the chemical composition is surprisingly similar to serotonin that occurs naturally in the human brain.

I am so sick of hearing about a person, whose death is blamed on mushrooms, when they previously lived a life of drinking, smoking, and pharmaceutical drug abuse. Yet ironically, here in America, the pharmaceuticals that are causing liver damage and over doses, are completely legal. They make billions of dollars every year, putting out more addictive and dangerous drugs. Have you seen some of the commercials on TV that advertise these drugs? “Side effects may include. . . . . ” “Internal Bleeding” “Hemorrhaging” “risk of suicide” and the list goes on. . . .

Why all this propaganda against mushrooms? Because they’re inexpensive and abundant. How would these big Pharmaceutical companies keep making profits if the people learned they could treat their illness with something that occurs naturally on Earth? The cost of a single dose of Oxycotin, a highly addictive pain killer abused most notably abused by the rightwing Propaganda-ist Rush Limbaugh, costs up to 30 times the dosage of mushroom experience.

Yet here in America, “Land of the Free” Psilocybin is an illegal substance. Furthermore, even in a broken economy, millions of dollars are still being spent every year on the “war on drugs”. Why? To keep the competition down and to insure the safety of the pharmaceutical companies.

Please don’t believe any of what you have read today. Its just one point of view. Please make up your own mind, just don’t be an idiot and buy into all the propaganda of false rumors. Saying something over and over doesn’t make it true.

There are MANY, MANY less shroom-related deaths than alcohol-related deaths, yet the safer one becomes illegal. Seriously, if someone kills a whole family from drunk driving, how come it’s the driver’s fault, and not alcohol. And when someone falls off a roof on shrooms, it’s the drug’s fault. This lack of logic just fuckin pisses me off.
Now they’re allowing gangs to become richer by selling this newly illegal drug to the many users in Holland.

JUST blame the drug, not the irresponsible person.

I would say that the number of people using them will increase when they become illegal in Holland. Once their cultivation and sale becomes decentralized, more people will have access. Also, the profit margin will skyrocket, thus modivating sellers to become more active in recruiting new users.

JT: “I don’t want to say that addicts would have it easy…”

Unlike Alcohol, Mushrooms aren’t addictive. Very few, if any, people use them on a regular basis. As ‘boo’ suggests, please inform yourself before commenting.

We’re talking about hallucinogenic mushrooms. It’s been researched and verified that psilocybin doesn’t make people physically or mentally addicted to psilocybin. please people, do your research first before you assume on what harm a particular drug does to a person’s body. I’m not talking about just mushrooms, but there are times where i’ve read comments from drug related posts on this blog and i have no idea where people get their misinformation from. Is it the Finnish drug educational system (or lack of it)?

This is one of the reasons why I’m pissed off that mushrooms have gotten a bad light with the media. A few mishaps due to misinformation and carelessness from particular individuals can ruin it for others who ingest mushrooms for spiritual, studying and medicinal purposes. I post in a community which tries to help spread CORRECT information about hallucinogenic mushrooms and from the 10 years of being apart of that community, the only deaths which have occurred were due to PHARMACEUTICAL addictions. A lot of the moderators in this community are research scientists, doctors, lawyers, all these professions which you don’t normally associate with people taking magic mushrooms for recreational purposes.

@ Phil: “people’s taste for mushrooms won’t change with this law, now they’ll be forced to purchase them from shady dealers and they’ll never exactly how safe and how potent they are”

You’re right in a sense, they’ll not know how safe the product will be..especially since growing mushrooms can be 50/50…depending on how clean the environment the mushrooms are growing in. People will never know if there’s moulds which grew in conjunction with the shrooms. But, that’s usually identifiable. In regards to the potency, it’s somewhat easy to tell from fresh or dried – potency varies from different species. lowest being cubensis highest being azurescens.

majava: yes i was talking about the ones that grow here in Finland, there’s an official document (written by guzman -i think and allen) which states there are 14 species of psilocybin mushrooms that grow in this country.

boo, were you talking about the ones that grow here, when you wrote “species found in Finland”? I then agree about both the finding and identifying. They are so easy to mix with other mushrooms, unless you have a microscope.