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As a result of my court case earlier this year and the following correspondence with the United Nations, I am have written the following article/press release. It contains new information which should be able to lift some eyebrows. I need as much media attention for this as I can get. Please help. If you have media contacts, please notify them now and send them this article. I hope it effects the ban. please distribute freely to as many press contacts as possible

My best regards,

Ananda Schouten

Managing Director

De Sjamaan Smartshops and Distribution

Klarendalseweg 376, 6822 GT, Arnhem, the Netherlands

International wholesale: Tel: 00-31(0)26-3893819 Fax: 00-31(0)26-3893818, E-mail: internationalwholesale@sjamaan.net

Press release July, 13th 2005

UN sees no reason to ban mushrooms.

On July 18 of this month Psilocybe mushrooms become illegal in the UK. The new law banning Psilocybe mushroom has been formulated to clarify the existing law. The existing law is a direct result of the UK signing the United Nations convention of psychotropic substances of 1971. The U.N. International Narcotics Control Board exists especially for clarification of and promoting compliance to the UN conventions on narcotics. The INCB has a tough policy on drugs and has recently condemned the downgrading of cannabis to class C in the UK and slapped the US for being soft on party drugs. Still the International Narcotics Control Board sees no need to ban Psilocybe mushrooms. There is no loophole in the law; magic mushrooms are legal with reason.

In a Dutch court case of Dutch mushroom distributor De Sjamaan, earlier this year Dr. Lousberg, the vice-president of the INCB explained:

Low risks

In 2000, Coordination point Assessment and Monitoring new drugs(CAM) did a study on the risks of Psilocybe mushrooms. The CAM is part of the EU Early Warning Mechanism. It came to the conclusion that there is no need to ban Magic Mushrooms. The risks towards public health, criminality, public order, addiction and many other concerns are too low. The sales of magic mushrooms prevent people from going into the woods picking mushrooms and misidentification of magic mushrooms with toxic wild mushrooms. Dr. Lousberg was one of the experts working on the study.

Since then there has been no new data to conclude otherwise. In fact new research and data only confirmed the outcome of the study.

Mushrooms are 100% legal

The delegates of the United Nations did not find it necessary to put psilocin containing mushrooms on the list of controlled substances. Only substances placed on the list of controlled substances are controlled. For this reason, not only cocaine, but also coca leaves are listed. Psilocybin and Psilocin are listed, but not the mushrooms themselves. This has been done on purpose. Many naturally occurring plants contain controlled substances. If that would be a reason to ban mushrooms or plants, a large part of nature should be prohibited. Another reason not to ban naturally occurring plants, is that the UN delegates concluded that banning naturally occurring plants is legally not feasible.

The concentration of psilocybin and psilocin in magic mushrooms is of course much lower than the pure substances. As the concentration goes down, so does the risk. The concentration of psilocybin and psilocin is too low, to pose enough risk to justify a ban. Since magic mushrooms are not controlled, neither are preparations of magic mushrooms. Only if one would separate the controlled substances from the mushrooms, an illegal preparation would be produced.

After consulting the United Nations on Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Narcotics Control Board has made it clear in various letters that Magic mushrooms do not fall under international control.

International Narcotics Control Board meeting on Psilocybe mushrooms:

In the light of the testimonial of Dr. Lousberg in the court case and after recurrent questions on the legal status of Psilocybe mushrooms, the International Narcotics Control Board established an ad hoc working group to look into this matter. To re-evaluate the view of the INCB on Psilocybe mushrooms and suggest to the board; wording to use in future communications on this issue. The sessions took place from may 17 – 28, 2004. The working group discussed the matter in dept and concluded that the wording presently used by the secretariat of the INCB should remain as it is:

“At present, no plants (natural materials) are controlled under the 1971 convention of psychotropic substances. Consequently, preparations (e.g. decoctions) made of these plants, including Ayahuasca (and Psilocybe mushrooms*), could be considered as not being under international control and therefore not subject to any of the articles of the 1971 convention.”

*Note of vice-president Lousberg

EU Free Trade treaty

The testimonial of the vice president of the INCB is essential in regards to the EU Free Trade treaty: This treaty, signed by the UK, forbids the UK to ban goods, which are legally produced in other EU countries. Most magic mushrooms are produced in the Netherlands. But the EU free trade treaty does not preclude prohibition justified on grounds of public health. The testimonial of Dr. Lousberg makes it impossible to claim with any credibility, that the mushroom ban is justified on grounds of protection of public health.

related document: On the legality of magic mushrooms

Me and my mates bought a load and dryed them out in a warm room on some wire mesh, with a fan on one side and a dehumidifier on t’other. Your looking for about a 90-95% weight reduction. Oh, and as for putting them in honey, you have to be aware of a few points.

1. It has to be natural honey (the cloudy type), processed honey has been treated so you risk bacterial growth!
2. If you put fresh shrooms in honey, you may risk water moving out (osmosis) which may cause fermentation, rendering them useless, even toxic!
3. If you must put fresh’uns in honey, make sure you eat the honey too! some of the active ingredients may have moved into the honey.

Me and my mates dryed ours then honeyed them, just to be safe. Some say drying reduces potency but i found this was not the case, having tried both. I did find that, being not possesing of a sweet tooth, that honeyed shrooms tasted worse than fresh! Too much sugar made me feel ill!

If you do start to feel sick, fresh ginger combats it really well. I burns like mad but if you can’t hack the taste, i tried boiling some ginger in water with lots of sugar and honey, making ginger tea, which was much nicer and still stopped me feeling sick.

Final point, be carefull when smoking pot with it. The first time i tried it a had quite a bad trip. But the second time, I was ready for it and things went better, just really wierd (Seeing shadows of people around me, loss of depth perception, etc)!

Hope that was helpful…

spread them out on a few sheets of newspaper and wait til they go crispy.

Ive always found that mushrooms make me feel ill after taking them when they’ve been dried out so I think the best thing to do is put them in the freezer.
when the mushrooms are drying out in a room there’s probably all sorts of micro-organisms etc. landing on them and growing/dividing, releasing loads of toxic chemicals and then dying as the shrooms get dryer.
so what your left with is dry mushrooms which contain psiliocybin+loads of other toxic shit so I think the best thing to do is freeze them+ I red’ that they hold their psiliocybin/psiliocin better when their frozen as well.

mushroom tea/coffee makes me heave – its torture, a good way to take them is boil them up as normal in a saucepan of water, filter out the sludge so your left with brown water, pour it into a bottle and put it in the freezer for about 30-40 mins til its ice-cold and then add about %50 of ribena squash – you wont be able to taste the mushrooms + when its cold you dont have to sip it you can just drink it all in 1 go.

I go to the methadone clinic and I have to provide them with urine samples and if I drop a dirty sample I’ll be kicked out so I’m wondering whether they can tell if I’ve taken shrooms (should have thought of this before I took them really but heh!). Someone actually told me they’d have to do a spinal tap or something like it… Does anyone know more about this?

Depends on the shrooms. Psilocin based shrooms are out of your system in 8 hours approx (depends on your body though) and cannot be found in your urine AFTER that.

Fly Agaric contains Muscimol and may well stay in your system a bit longer.

I would err on the cautious side though and not risk fucking up at the clinic.

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found any this year yet