Dutch protest 'magic' mushroom ban

[helderheid]

A man holding a sign that reads "boss in own brain" protests against a planned ban on all hallucinogenic "magic" mushrooms by the government on Dam square in Amsterdam October 27, 2007. REUTERS/Koen van Weel

[stirlingsliver]

1. Well, Dam

Well, Dam.

I guess I won't be going to Holland soon.

[NightWatcher]

3. they still have weed, hash, and space cakes

ummmmmm space cakes

[provis99]

2. He's not helping his point with a sign that makes no sense

Maybe a non-druggie should make a sign for him that is coherent. Inadvertently advertising your own brain damage is not a way to win support for magic mushrooms.

[Kingshakabobo]

5. Do you think, MAYBE, something is lost in translation?

[helderheid]

8. I'll have to ask my Dutch hubby but I think it should be:

Baas van mijn eigen brein

[rAVES]

6. HEY!!! He was top of his class in arts and craft!

[soulcore]

9. It clearly means he is the Boss of his own brain.

Clearly you fail to read into the translation completely.

I'm the boss of my my own mind as well.

It's disappointing to hear one of the most progressive places in the world is now il-legalizing one of humanity's oldest and most well known hallucinogens, the original "manna from heaven."

[helderheid]

10. I'm hearing more and more stories about Holland becoming stricter. Shame.

[rAVES]

14. They are strict as it is...

If you ever go, my advise is not to mess around with the police (not saying you would), they come down on you like a ton of bricks...

While I was there visiting my Bro, I seen a guy getting arrested for fighting, the officer Shamed him by cuffing him to the back of his horse and paraded him down the street to an onlooking crowd laughing and pointing.

And police raids on Discos are carried out like a military exercise, every person in the disco with drugs just takes them out of their pockets and throws em on the ground and leaves being searched on the way out, god help you if they find any in your pockets after the first warning.

nice place though, if you can stand shit food for a few days.

[helderheid]

16. Shit food?

I ate well while I lived there. :shrug: Now talk about SHIT FOOD!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. Made perfect sense to me.

One should make one's own decision on how to affect one's mind.

Inadvertently advertising your own brain damage is not a way to make a point about some guy's sign.

[NoodleyAppendage]

4. Hello. They are mushrooms. NOT hard to grow without detection.

Mushrooms require spores. Spores are easy to get. Growing conditions are fairly easy to establish and DO NOT require massive grow lamps who's electricity and heat signatures alert authorities.

J

[Bongo Prophet]

7. No natural substance should be made illegal. Neither plant nor mushroom...

Too much control, not enough understanding.
Freedom of consciousness is a threat only to those who want to limit and control the thinking process.

[rAVES]

11. I dunno.. the worst mushrooms will do is make you roll up into a ball of despair for 6 hours

[Webster Green]

13. Most of the shrooms they are sporting look like Amanitas..

Gotta watch out for that shit. Some are very deadly, others will get you tripping, but it's not a Psilocybin trip. I've heard that it's not much fun.

The Amanita muscarias are flashy looking though. I guess that's why they used them.

[soothsayer]

15. are those the santa claus/flying reindeer ones that show up in all kinds of

oldtime xmas cards?