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. |
The Sunday Times - Ireland -- January 29, 2006 The sale of magic mushrooms is to be banned in Ireland, following a lobbying campaign by the family of a man who died after eating the drug. Mary Harney, the health minister, told the Dail last week that legislation is being prepared to make possession or sale of magic mushrooms a criminal offence. This will bring Ireland into line with Britain, where they were classified as class A drugs alongside heroin and cocaine in July 2004. The man in his thirties, from Dun Laoghaire, died last year after he jumped out of the balcony at his apartment. Gardai are investigating claims that he bought magic mushrooms at a shop in Dublin city centre, and had taken less than the recommended dosage on the packet. > The man’s family believe the hallucinogenic contributed to the actions that led to his death. Shortly beforehand, he and friends had been playing Trivial Pursuit and drinking beer. |
Magic mushroom seller's action fails The owner of a shop in Cork city which sells magic mushrooms has failed in her bid to temporarily stop Customs seizing her shipments from Holland. Helen Stone began selling the mushrooms last June. Her shop also deals in clothes and other natural products. Customs and excise began stopping her mushroom shipments in August. They told her they contained an illegal substance, a derivative of psilo-cybin. Lawyers for customs said it was not lawful to possess the mushrooms even though they are in their natural state. Ms. Stone’s lawyers said they were not illegal, that they imported from a wholesaler in Holland and then sold in her shop without being dried out or processed. Today, they sought a temporary injunction pending the full hearing of the case to stop the seizure of her shipments. Ms. Justice Laffoy denied her that injunction but agreed that there was issue to tried-the case is up for mention on the 16th of February. Ireland
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Mushroom Death: Inquest Adjourned![]() #5356378 - 03/02/06 05:17 AM From today's Irish Independent |
Ireland Online http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=187105532&p=y87yx6z38 26/06/2006 - 13:31:22 Market stalls selling magic mushrooms helped kick-start demand for the powerful mind altering drug in the late 1990s, a report revealed today. The study by the European Union’s drugs agency found the deadly fungi was openly available from so-called "smartshops" promoting herbal highs, websites and markets encouraging young people to try it out. It said 5% of 15-24-year-old have taken hallucinogenic "shrooms" and 20% of school kids said it was easy to get their hands on them. Despite it being made illegal to sell the fungi in January of this year, the report warned shops were looking at selling alternative, legal, types of mushrooms to give users a high. The warning comes as an inquest is to resume into the death of a 33-year-old man who fell from a fourth floor apartment in Dun Laoghaire after eating magic mushrooms. Colm Hodkinson bought a box of the drug for €25 to take at a Hallowe’en party in 2005 but less than an hour after eating them he was dead. The successful young businessman and keen golfer had been a first-time user of the drug. The inquest into his death is due to be heard at Dublin County Coroner’s Court sitting in Tallaght tomorrow by Dr Kieran Geraghty. Magic mushrooms have been blamed for two other deaths across Europe including a poisoning in France and a suicide in the Czech Republic. Six EU countries have tightened their legislation on hallucinogenic mushrooms since 2001 to coincide with recent increases in prevalence of use, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Estonia, the UK and Ireland. Reports in the UK suggest that legislation has had an impact on the availability of mushrooms and overall volume of internet sales. And the EU study showed that unpredictable potency and negative effects such as, nausea, panic attacks, and/or lack of sociable effects may all contribute to limiting recreational use of hallucinogenic mushrooms. |