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A clinical trial of 'magic mushroom therapy' could take place in the UK within a year following two ground-breaking studies.
Doctors plan to treat depressed patients who cannot be helped by modern drugs or behaviour-based psychotherapy with the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Psilocybin infused into bloodstreams
Psilocybin would slowly be infused into their bloodstreams while they receive [...]

As part of a clinical trial, BBC reporter Michael Mosley, tests the effects of  Psilocybin on the brain. He couldn't stop talking after this experience :)

Een post eerder zijn op het blog de kamervragendie  L.Bouwmeester van de PvdA stelde gepubliceerd. Het Kamerlid stelde deze vragen naar aanleiding van een  krantenartikel in de Trouw over het gebruik van Sclerotia, beter bekend als Magic Truffels.
De verantwoordelijke minister Schippers heeft antwoord gegeven, deze antwoorden willen wij U natuurlijk niet onthouden. Probeer wakker te [...]

Kamervragen Pv/dA over Truffel gebruik en verkoop
 Tweede kamerlid Lea Brouwmeester heeft op haar persoonlijke website de kamervragen gepost welke zij ,na aanleiding van het krantenartikel in dagblad De Trouw, in het parlement heeft gesteld. Om iedereen voldoende te informeren over de opleving van het paddenstoelen en truffel topic hebben wij (MMS) deze vragen op een [...]

Magic Mushroom by Jonathan Gill. Licence under the Creative Commons 2.0 Attribute
Dutch mushroom ban successful
It became clear today that the Dutch government is continuing the ban on magic mushrooms. Ths despite the wish of the left wing parties to lift it. (PvdA, D66, GroenLinks)
Today there was a debate in Dutch Parliament analyzing the effectiveness of [...]

PvdA parliament member Lea Bouwmeester
Mushroom ban no solution
According to the PvdA Member of Parliament (Labour Party) Lea Bouwmeester: “The ban on mushrooms doesn’t seem to be the solution to the problem of drug using tourists and it should be lifted again.”
She sees it as ineffective ‘symbol politics’ and the problem lies in the fact that [...]

The Ban
The Dutch ban on mushrooms came into effect on December First, 2008. From this point on it is illegal to sell and grow fresh and dry magic mushrooms as a retailer and wholesaler.  Mushrooms are classified as a class 2 drug, what categorizes them as illegal soft drugs, just as marihuana. But unlike cannabis [...]