Ireland - Ireland: Speak out for the Shroom

[tky]

"Then I’ll ring Sinn Fein and tell them that, as a young republican, I was devastated by Aengus O’Snodaigh’s campaign to have mushrooms banned. "

You might also mention to them that shooting people dead for selling cannabis and kneecapping kids for smoking it are not good thing to be doing either (unless, as a young republican, you think they are good ideas).

[Alfa]

Smartbee, you mean Northern Ireland. We are talking About the republic of Ireland.

[Nature Boy]

Just to sort out the technicalities:

Ireland is not part of the UK or Britain. Northern Ireland is a part of the UK but not Britain. The UK's full official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

[D.U.M.B]

Hey,
I was so pissed when I heard they were banning shrooms. I have taken shrooms loads. Both the one's I picked from the fields myself and the many I bought while I lived in Holland. It's made to think they can ban something that is basically wild and natural. I mean if they found out tomorrow that smoking a common weed, nettle, thistle would it soon become illegal to have these in your possesion.

I'm going to help as much as I can to get this ban looked at. I've been a pro-drug campaigner since I first started taking and learning from them. I wish they'd ban alcohal. That causes so much more grief.

And weither the ban is lifted or not come "Mad Season" i'll be picking all the shrooms I possibly can. Just so I can have enough stock to last my friends and I a few months into next year.

Peace

[Abrad]

And taking a chance that the Gards don't do you for posseion of a Class A drug. I think it would be very risky to go picking, this year at least.

[D.U.M.B]

Yeah would be risky. But i know the right fields in the right areas. No garda for at least 20 miles and would only need to travel a few hundred metres back to somewhere safe.

[Lunar Loops]

Originally Posted by Shame In You

Yeah would be risky. But i know the right fields in the right areas. No garda for at least 20 miles and would only need to travel a few hundred metres back to somewhere safe.

And of course, bearing in mind that this is SWIY (Soemeone Who Isn't You).

[Abrad]

SWIM would be very wary of any well known locations this year but remote spots would probably be OK. Even when they were legal SWIM knows people who were stopped, searched and had mushrooms confiscated at a certain pub in the Dublin mountains.

[Lunar Loops]

Originally Posted by abrad84

SWIM would be very wary of any well known locations this year but remote spots would probably be OK. Even when they were legal SWIM knows people who were stopped, searched and had mushrooms confiscated at a certain pub in the Dublin mountains.

Not only that, but you are always then open to the line of "as we have found you picking these, we have reasonable grounds to suspect that you may have other drugs about your person". SWIM never had anything else about his person when a wandering the hillsides in autumn. Abrad84 is indeed correct, this year will be like no other and the days of carefree collection are gone. Now if needs must, it will be case of furtive foraging.

[D.U.M.B]

SWIM is now paranoid. But I guess SWIM will have to take the risk. Unless legal status is changed

[Mr. Giraffe]

Just to throw in my tuppence worth here - yes, people need to be cautious when picking shrooms, but it's not too likely the cops will be trawling the fields come shroom season.

If in doubt, deny you even know what they are, and pretend to be gathering pretty shrooms. For my money, there's not much they can do unless you admit to what you were doing.

[Lunar Loops]

Originally Posted by Mr. Giraffe

Just to throw in my tuppence worth here - yes, people need to be cautious when picking shrooms, but it's not too likely the cops will be trawling the fields come shroom season.

If in doubt, deny you even know what they are, and pretend to be gathering pretty shrooms. For my money, there's not much they can do unless you admit to what you were doing.

Yes, I know what you are saying and I agree for the most part, but still better to err on the side of caution. SWIM's favourite sites were in the middle of nowhere, but still within visibility of roads and SWIM will not feel quite so safe this autumn.

[Abrad]

Yes, the area SWIM goes to involves walking down a long country road for several miles to get home. SWIM has often been passed by Garda cars there, and he knows other SWIMs who have been searched and had mushrooms confiscated despite them being legal at the time.

[StigmataLectron]

Reading through this thread, I find it kind of funny that the new ban has only slightly phased everyone and made them more cautious - doing little if anything to all the Irish SWIY's use of mushrooms. I wish the Irish government could just dig it.

[Nature Boy]

SWIM's gonna buy a growkit soon. He estimates that his regular magic mushroom consumption will increase by several hundred percent. Way to prevent people from doing mushies government.

[Mr. Giraffe]

Originally Posted by nature_boy_liam

SWIM's gonna buy a growkit soon. He estimates that his regular magic mushroom consumption will increase by several hundred percent. Way to prevent people from doing mushies government.

Precisely.

No need to sprint from coppers across the green fields. Just get a grow kit. They're still selling them (ready to grow, so to speak) in the head shops. Furthermore, Customs have returned ready-to-go shroom growkits since the ban, so you're on solid legal ground there.

The cops have been harrasing shroom pickers for some time, as abrad says, prior to the ban. Let's face it, they just hate fun.

[Alfa]

Originally Posted by Mr. Giraffe

Customs have returned ready-to-go shroom growkits since the ban, so you're on solid legal ground there.

Please define ´ready to go growkits´. Do you mean with mycelium in them?

[Mr. Giraffe]

Originally Posted by Alfa

Please define ´ready to go growkits´. Do you mean with mycelium in them?

Yup. The just add water variety.

I know the Brits weren't too keen on stocking them because there *might* be traces of psilocybin in them, but a number of head shops are still stocking these kits, and Customs have continued to let them come through after the mushroom ban.

[Abrad]

This could be a recipe for disaster. When the police realise that they are in fact illegal there could be prosecutions.
Dry mycellium does contain actives, the headshops should have just sold sterilized grain and syringes. Which headshops are doing this (no names obviously) but is it Dublin, Galway, Cork or elsewhere?

[Nature Boy]

To be honest I reckon the government are genuinely too thick to realise that dry mycelium is active. These are the same people that think mushrooms are highly addictive afterall.

[Abrad]

Well then as long as our good friend Mrs. Kenny doesn't realiseand go on another on of her crusades, it's good to see.

[Nature Boy]

Don't worry, this isn't the sort of information the likes of Kenny would pick up on. Only pro-shroomers would be aware of this.

[Mr. Giraffe]

I agree with Liam; our enemies don't have the attention span or expertise to worry about such things.

Abrad, the only place I'm 100% sure they're being sold is in Cork (The shop selling them begins with a 'U', cluedo fans), but they're probably elsewhere too if they're getting away with it.

[Abrad]

SWIM was in a headshop in Dublin over the weekend. The only growkits they are selling are pre-sterilized grain bags with syringes sold separately. The prices thay are charging are crazy though.

[Mr. Giraffe]

Yeah, most of the shops seem to be selling the components seperately, but as I said, Customs continue to let ready to go kits through.

Really, if you're going to grow yourself, it's best to get the stuff wholesale from the UK or Europe cos, as Abrad says, the prices are nuts!