Dutch court bans ‘shrooms, everyone pretty hacked off.

So News24 is carrying a story about how Dutch courts have banned shrooms…

Here are a few excerpts…

“The ban was introduced by Health Minister Ab Klink, who believes consumption of the fungi “can lead to unpredictable and risky behaviour”.

French teenager died

It followed the death in 2007 of a French teenager who had taken mushrooms before jumping to her death from an Amsterdam bridge, reigniting a national debate over tolerance of the substance.”

I mean WTF? I’ve been to a few places where people go kamikaze after happy hour. Just last month I saw a street fight that ran into a road almost resulting in both titbag protaganists being knocked over. Just ‘cos one chick jumped off a bridge doesn’t mean we all gotta suffer right? I’d love to see the stats on how many people die or commit suicide after eating McDonalds as their last meal…

Incidentally I had McDonalds, ‘shrooms AND been to DOUBLE happy hour and I’m cool.

They go on to say…

“The dried variety has been illegal in the country for several years.”

Has it? Have they been selling wet ones? I remember going ‘shroom picking on a primary school cricket pitch years ago in England near Brighton where I was told it was cool to pick them (ie Wet) as they didn’t have much potency, and illegal to dry them out and SELL them. I dried mine out, was burgled a few weeks later and some titbag thief got my loot, the fucker!

“We are deeply disappointed,” Paul van Oyen, a spokesperson for the magic mushroom vendors’ association Vlos, told AFP. “The court is allowing the minister to get away with lies.”

No shit Paul, there go your profits, mushrooms grow in like days.

“Before the ban, there had been six magic mushroom growers in the Netherlands, 180 smart shops, and a few hundred employees in an industry with an annual turnover of €15-20m, according to the Vlos.”

The Vlos? I LOVE that name!

So why are they called smart shops anyways…?

“The magic mushroom ban is seen as part of a hardening stance on recreational drug use by the traditionally liberal Dutch, who have also been closing some cannabis-vending coffee shops.”

So whats next, no more beer? Sounds strangely prohibitionlike to me and we all know what that led to…

"Everyone was hacked off they couldn't sell 'shrooms anymore"