Hello and welcome to our News archives. In this section you will find
a wide variety of newspaper clippings regarding the visionary mushrooms.
I Started to catalogue these clippings back in 1976. They are arranged alphabetically by countries and newspapers and then Chronologically by dates. |
Germany, Stars and Stripes Online European Edition. Sembach-based airman gets jail time for using hallucinogenic mushrooms By Scott Schonauer, Stars and Stripes European edition, Wednesday, July 12, 2006 RAMSTEIN AIR BASE,
Germany — A military judge sentenced a Sembach-based airman to jail and a
reduction in rank on Monday after finding her guilty of wrongful use of a
controlled substance. Airman 1st Class Brooke
E. Roche, 23, pleaded guilty to the charge and admitted to eating
hallucinogenic mushrooms at a pizzeria in the Netherlands in early March of
2005. Roche is assigned to the
21st Operational Weather Squadron at Sembach Annex, which is about 19 miles
from Ramstein Air Base. She had faced a maximum
punishment of reduction to the lowest pay grade, forfeiture of two-thirds pay
per month for 12 months, confinement for a year, a bad-conduct discharge and a
fine. A charge of fraudulent
enlistment against Roche was dismissed after Judge (Col.) Gordon Hammock
granted a defense motion to dismiss evidence that she had admitted to taking
mushrooms before she entered the military. She had pleaded not
guilty to the fraud charge and no evidence was presented during the trial that
she had been convicted of possession or use of the drug prior to her
enlistment. Airman 1st Class Nickolas
L. Barringer testified during Monday’s hearing that he and another airman had
bought hallucinogenic mushrooms at a shop in the Netherlands, and that Roche
took the drug. Barringer is currently
serving a 10-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to driving while
impaired by marijuana as well as possession and distribution of marijuana and
hallucinogenic mushrooms at his court-martial last month. Possession of unprocessed
hallucinogenic mushrooms in the Netherlands is legal. But the U.S. military
prohibits servicemembers from possessing or using the drugs even if they are in
a country in which the drugs are legal. |