On Oct 23, 4:40 pm, "Will Dockery" <will.dock...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Leisha" wrote
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> > Hunting Parties
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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
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> *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.
>
> Source-Medindia
> GPL/C
>
Stupid tourists spoil everybody's fun!
Leisha
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