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28th October 2007, 11:34 AM
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Sat Oct 27, 11:02 AM ET
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Protesters turned out on Amsterdam's central Dam Square on Saturday, hoping to stop the government from banning magic mushrooms and asking to "save the 'shrooms."
Some wearing hats resembling the bright red cap of the popular fly agaric variety, protested to keep hallucinogenic mushrooms legal.
After several incidents involving tourists -- in March, a French teenager jumped to her death from a bridge after taking mushrooms -- the Dutch government plans to ban them... www.yahoo.co.uk/news & www.bbc.co.uk/news
I've several times heard gospel band The Evidence - who were all addicts for 12-17 years & had all been clean for at least 5 years each - say that those addicted to hard drugs nearly always start on 'soft' drugs
The end of Revelation 9 sadly predicts that those who survive the prophesied war, begun @ R Euphrates, that will kill 33% of mankind, will refuse to repent of their murders, their thefts, their adulteries & their pharmakeia - drug-fuelled occult practices
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28th October 2007, 12:02 PM
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More knee-jerk politics. It's a shame the Dutch would take this step backwards.
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28th October 2007, 12:44 PM
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28th October 2007, 12:53 PM
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Reps: 9,283,438,022,686,728 (power: 9,283,438,022,694) | | | Saving lives? I'm not sure how that would work. Magic mushrooms are not inherently dangerous, well, admittedly you may die from the laughing.
If you mean from the "gateway drug" argument I can only see banning of drugs as counter productive. Once people try the "softer" drugs and see that the horror stories they have been told are not actually true, why should they then trust the other stories about the "harder" drugs?
I think a more responsible policy is better drug education and not making substances illegal and pushing the problem underground.
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But it is also true that, though sound argument and a reasonable appreciation of the available evidence may happen sometimes to lead to false conclusions, no man who is indifferent to argument and evidence can claim to be concerned for truth.
- Antony Flew
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. |
28th October 2007, 04:15 PM
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Reps: 3,399 (power: 14) | | Originally Posted by ondaball  Just savin' lives, kid!
I've taken shrooms, really not my cup of tea, but I would hardly call them dangerous.
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28th October 2007, 04:55 PM
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Reps: 17,207 (power: 29) | | | Some kids die from being exposed to peanuts. So I'm sure a few of them would be adversely affected by peculiar recreational food additives. MUSHROOM is probably one of the funniest words in the English language in the same league as esophagus and snot.
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28th October 2007, 07:51 PM
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29th October 2007, 11:55 AM
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And I garrentee you that more people will die from buying crap off the streets from shady dealers if people aren't able to get it legally. |
29th October 2007, 03:01 PM
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31st October 2007, 12:14 AM
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Reps: 49 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by ondaball Sat Oct 27, 11:02 AM ET
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Protesters turned out on Amsterdam's central Dam Square on Saturday, hoping to stop the government from banning magic mushrooms and asking to "save the 'shrooms."
Some wearing hats resembling the bright red cap of the popular fly agaric variety, protested to keep hallucinogenic mushrooms legal.
After several incidents involving tourists -- in March, a French teenager jumped to her death from a bridge after taking mushrooms -- the Dutch government plans to ban them... www.yahoo.co.uk/news & www.bbc.co.uk/news
I've several times heard gospel band The Evidence - who were all addicts for 12-17 years & had all been clean for at least 5 years each - say that those addicted to hard drugs nearly always start on 'soft' drugs
The end of Revelation 9 sadly predicts that those who survive the prophesied war, begun @ R Euphrates, that will kill 33% of mankind, will refuse to repent of their murders, their thefts, their adulteries & their pharmakeia - drug-fuelled occult practices
The best alcohol & drug rehab program in the world is www.teenchallenge.org - I'll post their contact click for any who need help http://www.teenchallenge.com/howtogethelp
God bless!
Ian
So the mushrooms have been used for thousands of years and one jerk teenager kills himself while on one type of mushroom and the Government wants to ban the fungus. Absurd. And no you can not get addicted to that type of mushroom. It is not addictive nor is it even likely that someone would be willing to injest it frequently enough to become habituated to it. Absurd. The SSRI are more in line with the biblical ban. They are addictive. They do alter personality. They do destroy lives. | | |
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