Mushrooms becoming illegal? + Storing shrooms

[ika]

Hey what's up guys?

I don't see topics about this, but two weeks ago I got an email from a smart shop which basically said the Netherlands government will probably ban psychoactive mushrooms this week and hurry us up to make orders before it's too late.

As English -and Dutch- are not my mother tongue, I couldn't search legitimate sources for this, and I'm not sure if it's only a commercial move or in fact they're discussing the ban. The fact that I'm not reading topics about this in the forum raised even more my suspicions, so I don't know if anyone here can illuminate me in this subject...

Anyway, I'd like to ask you some questions about preserving my shrooms. I only wanna be sure if I'm doing it right, because I've read so many and so contradictory methods that I'm not sure anymore if my little dried babies are ok!

The way I'm storing them is in a paper bag made with a newspaper sheet closed with duct tape. I've put the bags into a hermetic jar similar to this one:

And then I placed the jar in the darkest zone of my freezer. Is this a safe way to store them? I've read about keeping them in a drawer/closet but the climate here in Spain is so hot I'm afraid that actually couldn't work very well...

Also, I'd like to make a sporeprint in the future but I don't know if my freezer method is OK to preserve it.

Any ideas???
Thank you!

 

[GOD]

I take it you mean a fridge and not a deep freeze , I think that the best place for them is at the bottom of a fridge where its 5 - 8c. , and a dark glass or more light proofing would probably be good . Just to get rid of the damage that may be done ??? by the light in the fridge going on and off each time you open the door .

Do you know the Email adress of the advert sender , have you ever ordered anything from shops that sell things like that . If not it sounds ???? to me ????

 

[ika]

Sorry about my english ^^ I actually wanted to say "in the bottom of the freeze", not in the fridge... :blush:

 

[GOD]

No need to say sorry , your english is VERY good , you did say in the freezer . I just wanted to make sure .

What about sending the silly cow with the ipod adverts a nice message , she deserves it !!!

 

[GOD]

Thanks for the PM , that sounds very funny to me , where did they get your Email adress from ????

 

[GOD]

Mushrooms should be stored dry , powdered , in air tight bags with no air in them , away from light , especialy uv-light , in jars that have a water tight seal , in the freezer not the fridge .

 

[Entheonaut]

Yes the dutch government might forbid the use/posession/sale of psylocybin-containing mushies. An investigation is going on about the dangers of the use of mushrooms, but our government said that even if the results will show that shrooms aren't dangerous, they might still forbid them.
If I'm not mistaking it will be announced soon what the governments decision is.

Oh and by the way, this subject has been discussed alot on the dutch part of the forum.


Let us pray for our mushroom friends... :wink:


Peace

 

[Jahvisions]

For what I know the best is the freezer and not the fridge. Seems logical to me because all processes go faster when it is warmer, so the colder it is the longer you can store it.

Only fresh mushrooms can't be kept in the freezer but only in the frigde.

And powder the muhrooms doesn''t neither sound smart cause smaller pieces have a greater surface/area on the outside from where process like oxidation start that brake substances. So i'll keep the whole mushroom intact.

So i'll dry them put them in an airtightbag and then in the freezer, the stay good like for a year or even more.

 

[DevXavier]

Shrooms have been researched numerous times by the government already. Every time they found them to be virtually harmless.

It should be announced within a few days now whether they are being banned or not. I bet shrooms will be illegal very soon. If not, the sale will be heavily restricted, which is a good thing.

The only advantage of banning them is LSD will be more widely available, nothing but negative side effects will arise. Ah well, Christian parliament huh.

 

[thadivine]

Yes the dutch government might forbid the use/posession/sale of psylocybin-containing mushies. An investigation is going on about the dangers of the use of mushrooms, but our government said that even if the results will show that shrooms aren't dangerous, they might still forbid them.
If I'm not mistaking it will be announced soon what the governments decision is.

Oh and by the way, this subject has been discussed alot on the dutch part of the forum.


Let us pray for our mushroom friends... :wink:


Peace

yup its becouse the christians just don't want em and they start spreading BS about our little friends

But earlier cases (from smartshop sjamaan) have made them legal again after they where forbidden. How can they go into such a decision from the high court :?

 

[ika]

So it's real... So bad!!

I'll pray for my cute little shrooms... ^^

Thanks for the advices about storing the dried mushrooms!! Any idea for sporeprints?

 

[buffachino]

NNooooO!! Not our little friends!!! Bastard politicians...

Don’t let this happen if you live there. If they feel the need to fabricate all this spin about mushrooms being the new root of all evil then they are in no position to dictate power to you; there con artists of the highest echelon.
I don’t think mushrooms be commercialised anyway; only spore should be available prints for home cultivation. That will reduce the constituent of the public which abuse them for 'fun' and don’t think that eating mushrooms should deserve any research into their own minds or the sacred teachers themselves. But again prohibition and misinformation will only lead to this sort of abuse anyway so keeping them in some state of freedom is essential.

 

[ika]

Yes the dutch government might forbid the use/posession/sale of psylocybin-containing mushies. An investigation is going on about the dangers of the use of mushrooms, but our government said that even if the results will show that shrooms aren't dangerous, they might still forbid them.
If I'm not mistaking it will be announced soon what the governments decision is.

Oh and by the way, this subject has been discussed alot on the dutch part of the forum.


Let us pray for our mushroom friends... :wink:


Peace

Do you know when they'll decide about this, then?

 

[Roeligan]

Do you know when they'll decide about this, then?

The government wants the dangers researched, and that can take quite some time, I think our fungus-friends are safe for at least another year

 

[ika]

Oh, cool! Thank you!

 

[MzFly]

A couple of things ...

Also, I'd like to make a sporeprint in the future but I don't know if my freezer method is OK to preserve it.

Make a spore print from what? You're not thinking of making a spore print from a dried mushroom, are you?

If not, the sale will be heavily restricted, which is a good thing.

Why do you think that will be a good thing? And - what criteria do you think/hope will be use to restrict it?

It's not that big of a deal anyway ... I live in a country where possession, sale, and cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms is illegal ... they are relatively easy to purchase nonetheless ... and it's quite simple to order spores and grow your own :wink:

 

[Crusher]

Iam sure most will know it already cause its old news but since nobody posted it, I will do

I quote from a website ...

Cohen: three days to concider magic mushroom use

AMSTERDAM - Mayor Job Cohen of Amsterdam wants people that are about to buy magic mushrooms for the first time in their life to take three days to think their purchase through. Within this term the purchaser can gather information on the hallucinating mushrooms so he can make ‘a more conscious choice’.

This is what the mayor wrote to Dutch minister Ab Klink of Public Health, Well-being and Sports yesterday. A pass-system must protect the mushroom-user against ‘unreasonable impulse buying.’ People who visit a smartshop for the first time receive, by flashing their identity card, a special dated mushroom-pass. At the same time oral information and folders are given. Only three days later the freshman can proceed with his actual purchase by showing the pass again.

Cohen wrote his proposal in reaction to a couple serious accidents with magic mushrooms - all of them happened in Amsterdam and there was a high number of young foreign tourists involved. Therefore, the unreasonable use of mushrooms is mainly a problem of the capital, so the mayor reasons. In his letter he pleads thus for a local treatment instead of the national prohibition that is considered at the moment. Following the example of cities such as Venlo and Maastricht he wants to bind all smartshops to a (local) license.

Cohen's pleading connects seamlessly with the vision of The National Smartshop Consultation Association (VLOS) that called the pass system ‘a creative and intelligent solution’ for a problem which is ‘only present in Amsterdam.’

Sounds good IMO.

 

[ika]

It seems a good measure, but people from outside Holland will have problems to buy Shrooms via web.

We will see!

 

[GOD]

A bag full of powdered mushrooms has less oxygen in it if all the air is pressed out than a bag full of whole mushrooms . And drugs arent dangerous...... its what some people who take them do with them that can be dangerous . I´ve never seen a drug hurt itself ?????
"Help me dioctor i was walking down the street and got attacked by a mushroom"!!!!!?????

 

[ika]

Well guys, the time has come...

I just get an email from a web-shop. Shrooms will be illegal in the Netherlands really soon