Amsterdam mayor proposes three-day wait for magic mushrooms

[DS1]

THE HAGUE (AFP) - A new proposal from the mayor of Amsterdam is sure to be considered a bummer by certain visitors to the Dutch city: a three-day waiting period to buy hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Mayor Job Cohen wants to require the wait period to allow mushroom buyers to fully understand exactly what it is they are purchasing, ANP news agency reported Tuesday.

The proposal seeks to prevent impulse purchases and follows several incidents that have occurred in the city involving tourists who have eaten hallucinogenic mushrooms.

In March, a 17-year-old French girl killed herself by jumping from a bridge in the city after having eaten mushrooms.

Under the proposal, potential mushroom buyers would have to show identity papers when visiting one of the "smart shops" where they are sold in the famously tolerant city.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070911/od_afp/netherlandsdrugslaws_070911180903;_ylt=Aqw4RBCWcKr6BgXMz_BabEqs0NUE

I know where I'm going for my next vacation.

[mainegreen]

1. God I fucking love those coffee shops.

Went with my dutch cousin to a few of those.
I must say, the baked muffins in some of those cafes are simply divine.
The weed's mighty fucking kind too!

[MonkeyFunk]

2. But...

you NEED the mushrooms to properly enjoy the Van Gogh museum! The Ann Frank House... not so much.

[MrCoffee]

3. i have the best story about Dutch shrooms

on our last day in Amsterdam, my friends and I had some space cakes and went for a walk around the city. There was a major international meeting going on (this was in 97, something about the EU, if I recall): Bill Clinton and all the world leaders were there, and EVERYONE with a cause was protesting. It seemed like something was going on at every corner, kids bands, mini-rallies, buskers, protesters...

anyway, we were just coming up to Dam Square when we saw a big crowd gathered. apparently some Dutch anarchists dressed all in black leather were lined up against a handful of cops. All of a sudden a whole bunch of cop vans pull up and about 100 cops in full riot gear get out and line up against the anarchists. my friends and I were watching the scene when some Dutch punk dude jumped on one of the cop vans and started kicking the lights off the top. everyone was cheering until the van took off with the guy still on top. then someone threw a brick at the cops, and everyone was pushing forward, right toward the riot shields.

Thats when the cops fired the first volley of tear gas into the crowd. All of a sudden, about a thousand angry protesters turned around and charged right at my friends and I. I just about shit my pants as we hauled ass out of there. My female friend and I ducked down an alley (my other two friends ran off the other way) and hid in a doorway while teargas and screams came from all sides.

somehow we managed to get out of there with our stoned heads still attached to our bodies.

[DS1]

4. that could have been a pretty bad trip

:scared:

I prefer talking to aliens

[MrCoffee]

5. i think it would have been much worse sober

it was like it was happening around me, but not *to* me, so that made it ok.

i probably would have been much more freaked out if i had been sober.

[Mojambo]

6. If you could just get the mushrooms in advance the wait wouldn't be so bad. n/t