Why are Psychedelic Mushrooms illegal?

Answer 1

Mostly because we have a bunch of busy body lawmakers who think interfering in other people's lives is their top priority.

Most medical doctors agree that drug abuse is a medical problem, not a criminal problem. But we are too stupid to treat it as a medical problem. Instead, we spend BILLIONS each year on interdiction and incarceration. What we have accomplished is the erosion of our civil liberties, violation of posse comitatus, and increased violence. Our drug laws are selectively enforced, reducing overall respect for the law. We allow private property to be seized for bogus reasons.

In a famous case in Texas, one police officer could not be bothered to plant real drugs on his victims. Instead, they were convicted of possession of cocaine and sentenced to prison for sheet rock. It was only after the family of one of these men managed to get together enough money to hire a decent attorney to run tests on the so called "drugs" that the sham was discovered and most of the men were eventually released.

Sheet rock. What drug abusers need is treatment and rehabilitation, not prisons sentences that cost us all and more thoroughly destroy their families.

Answer 2

a hippies answer- because they make you think mannn

a doctors answer- because its essentially food poisoning and can be very harmful if the bacteria gets to any part of your body besides your ingestion system (ie if you breathe in the bacteria you can get bacteria in your lungs)


my answer-- the government is just a big corporation. there just like all other people, they want to be rich, and not have to do anything. the easiest way for this is to maintain a stable and predictable economy. if people take mind altering substances, they seem to make un-orthadox choices and act in an un-orthodox way. this makes the government scared because now you are not just a statistic anymore, you are an individual that makes choices on your own, not just a computer program that follows the pre-determined pathway the government has made for you. they make all your choices for you.

although the Psylosybin mushroom is not fatal when eaten properly (ie* nothing goes wrong with inhaling the bacteria off it), there is a very similar looking psychoactive mushroom that is VERY fatal if eaten, and often people eat these on mistake and die.


my advice to you is if your planning on doing shrooms for the first time... make sure someone else has already tested out the batch of shrooms before you (a day or 2 before to see full effects) and dont do more then you can handle (ie no more then an 8th... thats plenty for ur first time) maybe even a half 8th. and no matter how good of a time you have remember... EVERYTHING IN MODERATION! dont get lost in heaven. dont abuse any substance. use them as tools.


oh yeah, and if you do get caught by cops with them on you, its considered manslaughter because they figure your selling poison to other people.

Answer 3

IN SHORT: Psychedelics can break the spell of the Powers That Be and expose their duplicities and atrocities.

" ...if their sale were legalized, the popularity of these psychedelic drugs would be limited, their widespread use—which, I think, is feared—could indeed prove a threat to the continued expansion of modern industry. If new opportunities were extended to individuals for strange and exhilarating explorations into the mysterious universe and the mysterious self, the markets for media entertainment, for package tourism and for all the modern accessories of commercial hedonism would surely diminish.

Finally, in our technocratic civilisation, in which adjustment to the machine entails becoming like the machine, the hallucinogenic experience is one way of releasing, for a while, the faltering human spirit trapped inside the machine."
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/mishan.htm

Answer 4

Its not a conspiracy and I think the church is more to blame than the state, every ancient culture uses some form of alternating substance to connect to the other realm and to the 'god' energy that is with and without. It is much easier to force fears on someone like 'hell' when their minds are trapped in the body. As for people jumping out of windows, these same folks would do it sober if their credit card fails or they lose their job, shrooms my give you the ambition to follow through with your deepest intent, like drinking, if you an **** to start alcohol makes you a bigger ****.

Answer 5

Because they are psychedelic

Answer 6

They make people act irrational? During a bad trip, they could be dangerous to themselves and others.

Answer 7

because they're hallucinogens and...let's say.. they make people think they can fly, so they jump off balconies and break their legs.

true story.