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12-18-04, 14:51

Update, this a nearly complete version of an e-mail sent to me summarising recent happenings:

The week started with a court appearance for 2 mushroom sellers, at which the judge told the prosicution to "Chill Out", stating the law was not defined enough to classify chilled mushrooms (fridged) as prepared. This was excellent news.

The court felt that parliment should review the current law regarding psilocybe shrooms. The home office announced that they were to review the law, and a new bill had been proposed to make ALL psilocybe mushrooms illeagal, in any form.

At present, the mushroom (in a natural state)remains legal, for you to grow, pick, sell or eat. If this bill is passed by parliment, possession will be a crime, passing one to a friend could result in a 14 year jail term.

We feel that prohibition is not the order of the day, as this would force the mushroom underground, and into an illeagal market. We feel that self regulation of the sale of these, with positive progression to harm reduction is more appropriate.

Discussions are taking place within several online mushroom communities, including http://www.magicmushroomforum.co.uk as to the kind of action we can take to help prevent the unneccasary action of prohibition.

Work is underway to create a central site for a combined focusing of efforts, we will let you know more about this as soon as we find out its ready, just check out the forum for updates.

We have created a section of our mushroom forum, dedicated to collating information regarding this issue.

You can find this section using the following url:

http://www.graeme-farrer.net/tmg-ltd/magick_forum/ view_forum.php?id=45

Our aim is to compile and spread information, and present it to parliment, for inclusion in any review of the current law, with refrence to the proposed changes.

This will also be sent to the central site for further exposure.

There are several actions you can take, and these are detailed in our forum.

If you oppose the outlawing of these mushrooms, please sign the online petition :

http://www.petitiononline.com/DBPF/petition.html

Why not FAX YOUR MP, CONTACT THE MEDIA, or even BE THE MEDIA, the time to ACT is NOW!!"

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~demus Guest Posts: n/a	Update, this a nearly complete version of an e-mail sent to me summarising recent happenings: The week started with a court appearance for 2 mushroom sellers, at which the judge told the prosicution to "Chill Out", stating the law was not defined enough to classify chilled mushrooms (fridged) as prepared. This was excellent news. The court felt that parliment should review the current law regarding psilocybe shrooms. The home office announced that they were to review the law, and a new bill had been proposed to make ALL psilocybe mushrooms illeagal, in any form. At present, the mushroom (in a natural state)remains legal, for you to grow, pick, sell or eat. If this bill is passed by parliment, possession will be a crime, passing one to a friend could result in a 14 year jail term. We feel that prohibition is not the order of the day, as this would force the mushroom underground, and into an illeagal market. We feel that self regulation of the sale of these, with positive progression to harm reduction is more appropriate. Discussions are taking place within several online mushroom communities, including http://www.magicmushroomforum.co.uk as to the kind of action we can take to help prevent the unneccasary action of prohibition. Work is underway to create a central site for a combined focusing of efforts, we will let you know more about this as soon as we find out its ready, just check out the forum for updates. We have created a section of our mushroom forum, dedicated to collating information regarding this issue. You can find this section using the following url: http://www.graeme-farrer.net/tmg-ltd/magick_forum/ view_forum.php?id=45 Our aim is to compile and spread information, and present it to parliment, for inclusion in any review of the current law, with refrence to the proposed changes. This will also be sent to the central site for further exposure. There are several actions you can take, and these are detailed in our forum. If you oppose the outlawing of these mushrooms, please sign the online petition : http://www.petitiononline.com/DBPF/petition.html Why not FAX YOUR MP, CONTACT THE MEDIA, or even BE THE MEDIA, the time to ACT is NOW!!"