unclebuck

More ninny nannying stupid New Labour legislation. This time it's the harmless fun enjoyed by the magic mushroom takers that comes under the brutal heel of the New Labour loonies jack boot.

Mushrooms are now classified as a Class A drug along with Crack and Heroin. What the hell use is this crappy law?? PC tosspots!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4691899.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4692359.stm

UB

SJ_Skyline

Maybe old man lewis had a word after he saw them being taken at his rave?

What's next on the list for bans? KFC?

Jap2Scrap

That wouldn't be a bad thing KFC popcorn is made from chicken's ball-bags..

ajm

New Labour ban culture

I heard on the news this morning the next thing is going to be laws banning people from visiting certain web sites, such as extremist religous sites..... so if moses keeps posting on scoobynet we will be banned from visiting here too!

Angry

******* NL muppets, as if shrooms are as dangerous, addictive or socially ruinous as crack cocaine and heroine.

This will no doubt keep the hysterical "Please think of the children" Daily Mail readers happy

moses

why its a drug deserves to be banned


mind u go to pakistan wild opium huka i seen some folk smoking it via hooka

SPEN555

They should be a class 'A' drug FFS! I don't want some scruffy crusty driving off there face on this $hite! They might drive into me.

SiPie

One of my school chums was killed (along with the driver) when he threw himself through the windscreen of a passing car as he ran out of his house screaming and naked, trying to escape, as he believed the devil was coming out of the plug sockets in his house and another pal has been institutionalised since 1989 after binging on mushrooms....(admittedly an underlying problem was no doubt evident)

Agree that 30-40 in some mushy tea will just give you the giggles etc but 200-300 can have some less than harmless effects.

Angry

Moses, a drug is a substance which as been processed by man to produce a finished product, shrooms grow naturally from the ground and need no processing before ingestion

OllyK

The biggest problem, unlike canabis, opium poppies and other plants that produce chemicals that have psychotropic effects is that these mushrooms do grow wild in this country. So how do you prove that a few mushrooms in somebody's garden are cultivated rather than natural?

I suspect it will be added to the pile of un-policeable new laws that NL have brought in.

rik1471

So should alcohol be Class A too?

unclebuck

Exactly. That nothing to do with magic mushrooms. The guy was clearly mentally ill anyway and resposible friends should never have encouraged him to take any kind of drug. A single incident of this type, tragic though it was for those involved, is certainly not grounds to indroduce a blanket ban on everybody else.

If anybody was stupid enough to take 300 they would have to suffer the consequences just like over dosing on alchohol or paracetemol or anything else you care to mention. Still not grounds to ban them.

As for the insult (which you have since deleted). what makes you so sure I no nothing about magic mushrooms? I've had my share, trust me, not that I bother any more. Sounds as though you should shut up about things you seem to know f**k all about not me - i.e. the hard won rights and freedoms of the members of a supposedly democratic society, Freedoms that are being rapidly eroded by the current government.

SPEN555

Nah, that would never happen, government make too much money out of it

AndyP2005

Hear, hear.

Ratman

They might be better off banning the deathcap mushroom. I believe that one does more harm.

Ratman
MY98 Wagon

SiPie

I had the decency to remove my 'deemed insult' towards you....

Shouldn't of bothered really

PRIZE ****

unclebuck

I was simply paraphrasing you

GIT

Jerome

How much crime is a result of people stealing to pay for their mushroom habit?

How long before some poor old dear gets life for cultivation/possession of a class A drug (that was growing naturally in her garden)?

unclebuck

This caught my eye:

"folklore gives clues that Britons have been well aware of the hallucinogenic properties of plants for centuries, including both the small brown Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata) and the red and white, and more toxic, Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)."

The red and white, and more toxic, Fly Agaric of course, remains perfectly legal.

Go figure.....

Apparition

S'funny ! Saw plenty for sale just now in Tescos

SJ_Skyline

UB - Natural Selection

ozzy

They should ban alchohol far sooner than mushrooms. There's more deaths and accidents from alchohol than most of the drugs out there.

But of course, we don't have a multi-million pound magic mushrooms industry

SJ_Skyline

Ozzy - following that theme they should ban beds and the bedding industry. Some 40% of people in the UK die in a bed, it really is quite a shocking statistic.

ozzy

That's they way I want to go, albeit with a sexy young blonde with huge t!ts banging me to death

Brendan Hughes

To clarify, banning a substance can be partly due to its ability to cause public health damage as much as individual health damage. There's massive trade in Liberty Cap, but I don't hear of many people selling Fly Agaric - so little risk of public health damage, perhaps?

StickyMicky

told you it was being banned !!!

good job we stocked up

Brendan Hughes

Ah, so you're now in possession of a class A substance then?

Bubba's waiting

unclebuck

OllyK

moses

if it keeps me hard aka my dingdong till im old im fine with it