"Leisha" wrote
>
> Hunting Parties
>
> Laurie and I left the party,
> ditching our boyfriends to hunt
> magic mushrooms. Our dealer was not
> at the west Eugene shack
> where a kick-boxing match
> spilled out the back door
> as a muddy brawl,
> so we crashed a teen rave
> at a private estate. There,
> kids shed their clothes and tipped
> high-rise bongs to blow smoke
> on a blissful orgy. In time, we returned
> to our bored, angry men,
> melted with laughter when asked
> for the liberty caps we'd forgotten
>
> in the midst of this other magic
> between us. I drove Laurie home
> on the Belt Line, took the first exit,
> signaled my right, but she laughed
> at the wind: "Not here! Not yet!"
> A metallic green Maverick
> idled ahead right, doors open.
> A beer can was chucked,
> the doors shut with a thrust
> of acceleration. We augured in,
> the fore-shortened stroke
> of a green-crossed T.
>
> She didn't scream
> when she bounced off the mirror.
> Blood ran from a gash in her head,
> splashed my leather seat with red streaks.
> She had wavy brown hair, white skin.
> She was ***y and slim. She bailed and ran
> as the drunk peeled away, cursing.
>
> I chased my wounded prey
> through a plain to the lip of a quarry.
> She wouldn't escape.
Fascinating poem-story, reminds me a lot of Stuart Leichter's poetry...
wonder how he's doing?
The 'shrooming days I remember well, great times, usually, though some
hair-raising moments, farmers with shotguns, and the times back in high
school when we discovered we could jump into a stalled boxcar on the long
slow train that cut through the center of Shadowville and into the
country,
that passed near Carver High and then right near my house. The train could
take us by an isolated cow pasture, and we'd leap off into a grassy knoll
and hang out, tripping for a day or so until another train eventually got
us
back to town the same way. All this came to an abrubt and slightly
scandalous end when Ronnie French broke his leg in the leap and we had to
go
to the farmer for help... which he of course did, as well as bringing in
the
sherrif and assorted caseworkers. Great while it lasted, though.
These days I never seem to have time to collect or do 'shrooms, since both
tend to while a day away dast, but one of these days...
Interestingly, I just read a re****t that 'shrooms are being banned in the
Netherlands:
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From: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.drugs.mushrooms/topics?lnk=sg
*Netherlands to Ban Sale of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms*
Hallucinogenic mushrooms? Yes they are on sale, in a relatively
permissive
Netherlands. The fung can give some hallucinations. But the trip is coming
to an end.
Rattled by an incident in which a teenager jumped to her death after
consuming such mushrooms, the government of Netherlands announced Friday
they will be banned in the coming months.
"The problem with mushrooms is that their effect is unpredictable," a
Justice Ministry spokesman said. Shops caught selling them will be closed.
Marijuana and ha****sh are technically illegal in the Netherlands, but
police
do not bother to prosecute people for possession of small amounts, and it
is
sold openly in designated cafes.
Possession of "hard" drugs like cocaine, LSD and Ecstasy is illegal.
Mushrooms will fall somewhere in the middle.
Psilocybin, the main active chemical in the mushrooms, has been illegal
under international law since 1971. However, fresh, unprocessed mushrooms
continued to be sold legally in the Netherlands along with herbal
medicines
in so-called "smart-shops," on the theory that it was impossible to
determine how much of the naturally occurring substance any given mushroom
contains.
Calls for a re-evaluation arose after Gaelle Caroff, a 17-year-old
visiting
from France, from a building in Amsterdam in March after eating
psychedelic
mushrooms.
Caroff's parents blamed their daughter's death on hallucinations brought
on
by the mushrooms, though the teenager had suffered from psychiatric
problems
in the past. Photographs of her youthful face were splashed across
newspapers around the country.
Since Caroff's death other dramatic stories involving mushrooms have been
re****ted in the Dutch press:
.. A British tourist, 22, ran amok in a hotel, breaking his window and
slicing his hand badly.
.. An Icelandic tourist, 19, thought he was being chased and jumped from a
balcony, breaking both his legs.
.. A Danish tourist, 29, drove his car wildly through a campground,
narrowly
missing people sleeping in their tents.
"It's a shame, the media really blew this up into a big issue," said Chloe
Collette, owner of the FullMoon smart-shop in Amsterdam.
She said all the incidents had involved the use of multiple drugs -
against
the advice of sellers - but it was the mushrooms that were blamed.
"Used in the right way, there's no problem with mushrooms: The biggest
problem is with alcohol, in my opinion."
Most mushrooms sold in Amsterdam are sold to tourists, and the city's
liberal drug policies and legalized prostitution are major tourist
attractions.
In May, the country's health minister, Ab Klink, undertook a study of the
problems and called for suggestions from the industry and Amsterdam's city
government.
Murat Kucuksen, whose farm Procare supplies about half the psychedelic
mushrooms on the Dutch market, said he stood to lose several million euros
invested in setting up his legal growing facilities.
He predicted the trade will move underground, prices will rise, and
dealers
will sell dried mushrooms or LSD as a substitute, with no guidance for
tourists.
"So you'll have a rise in incidents but they won't be recorded as
mushroom-related, and the politicians can declare victory," he said.
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