Drugs Blog
There is not to much I can add to this subject I haven’t already put on the response to Helen’s blog. Perhaps it would be interesting to look at some statistics?
Illegal drugs namely cocaine makes up nearly10% of world trade - only the arms trade has a bigger market value. There are no taxes to control supply, so in many ways the illegal drugs market is a shockingly good and accurate example of 'free trade' today.
This information is taken from the link posted on my response to Helens blog, I found it very poignant as I think it’s fair to say that most of us disagree at some level about the tax we are forced to pay on… everything? So doesn’t it seem ironic that this free trade exists only on illegal drugs and arms deals?
The focus has so far been on common drugs, what I mean by that is ones that are most widely talked about, or are in the eye of the media. But what about drugs that have extreme effects on the mind and yet the grow in the ground? In this country?
Mushrooms, shrooms, magic mushrooms, whatever the name we have all heard of them, but what exactly are they?
The main substance in” magic mushrooms” is psilocybin (psilocin). In most countries psilocybin is illegal. However, in quite a lot of countries this does not imply that the psilocybin mushrooms are illegal as well. Unprocessed, fresh magic mushrooms are legal in many countries, and up until July 2005 fresh magic mushrooms were still allowed to be sold in this country. They are now banned in the UK, however if you look carefully lots of places still sell them, it seems the current law states that as long as these mushrooms are not “prepared” for consumption they can still be sold. So are they illegal? The answer is, as far as I can work out,”it depends".
Below you will find a very interesting link about the history of magic mushrooms, definitely worth a read, fascinating.
http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/mus01.htm.
There is not to much I can add to this subject I haven’t already put on the response to Helen’s blog. Perhaps it would be interesting to look at some statistics?
Illegal drugs namely cocaine makes up nearly10% of world trade - only the arms trade has a bigger market value. There are no taxes to control supply, so in many ways the illegal drugs market is a shockingly good and accurate example of 'free trade' today.
This information is taken from the link posted on my response to Helens blog, I found it very poignant as I think it’s fair to say that most of us disagree at some level about the tax we are forced to pay on… everything? So doesn’t it seem ironic that this free trade exists only on illegal drugs and arms deals?
The focus has so far been on common drugs, what I mean by that is ones that are most widely talked about, or are in the eye of the media. But what about drugs that have extreme effects on the mind and yet the grow in the ground? In this country?
Mushrooms, shrooms, magic mushrooms, whatever the name we have all heard of them, but what exactly are they?
The main substance in” magic mushrooms” is psilocybin (psilocin). In most countries psilocybin is illegal. However, in quite a lot of countries this does not imply that the psilocybin mushrooms are illegal as well. Unprocessed, fresh magic mushrooms are legal in many countries, and up until July 2005 fresh magic mushrooms were still allowed to be sold in this country. They are now banned in the UK, however if you look carefully lots of places still sell them, it seems the current law states that as long as these mushrooms are not “prepared” for consumption they can still be sold. So are they illegal? The answer is, as far as I can work out,”it depends".
Below you will find a very interesting link about the history of magic mushrooms, definitely worth a read, fascinating.
http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/mus01.htm.
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