No, I was saying that the effects of truffles and mushrooms are much of a muchness.
These "mushroom chocolates"... to me, it seems likely that they're infused with some 4-subbed tryptamine RC rather than actual mushroom extract. Got nothing to back that up, just a hunch.
Nah i'm quite certain that it's mush, i've made bars myself and it tastes just the same. I'd be happy if some RC's were more available in Netherlands haha... Shame the smartshops died down a bit the past few years, the few smartshops that sell those "chocolates" sell them under the counter. Why not grow mushrooms yourself if you have the mushroom kits eh :D!
And yes don't believe everything that you read; amsterdam council (and many more) is indeed very stubborn about the fact;
The point is there are some retarded christian political parties advocating null-tolerance to weed and the drug policy/gedoogbeleid but they barely have any "chairs" so to say... They can whine all they want as long as they don't get the majority I doubt we will see a lot of change.
It's already suggested that foreigners won't be excluded from the shops anymore
Exactly one month ago, they closed thirteen of the fourteen Maastricht coffeeshops for all foreigners except Germans and Belgians.
Research by OWP Research shows that the number of visitors in the coffee shops have since declined by 16.3 percent. But the number of street deals has actually increased, say the coffee shop owners and local residents... I wonder what the city prefers, a controlled enviroment (+ taxed!) or dealers (rip offs!) scourging on the streets. They lost a rough 30 million euroes in sales and 345 full-time jobs.
They want to push the weed pass through aswell (utter date being 1 january 2012 for the south of Netherlands) and make coffeeshops closed clubs with a maximum of 2000 members, I doubt that it will go through but you never know... Many coffeeshop holders have told the government that this on too short notice; it's impossible to implent registration in a rough two months, even maastricht agrees on this... Not only that their have to be made new agreements with all the cities and police. They also demand that only residents of said city can become member of the club so if this goes through even the Dutch will be discriminated in their own country (cities without coffeeshops!?)
When it comes to the gedoogbeleid a lot of parties talk a lot of bullshit without it being remotely true or passable. You have to keep in mind that most of these are just
proposals and that they still have to pass through the "first room" and "second room" and afterwards get a publication in "state magazine" .
Another example of the sheer stupidity of some politicians here: a few weeks ago there was a suggestion to make a distinction inbetween weed containing 15+ percent THC, proposing that the weed be considered a harddrug if that is the case. They also demanded that police would control samples and close shops if it'd rise above said limit (hard drug sale being forbidden) . Funny thing is that they are actually proposing a criminal offence then; a coffeeshop does not have "opium exemption" meaning that it is forbidden to hand out samples, they also don't have access to a laboratorium so they can't possibly test their weed themselves. Not only that juridistically this just isn't manageable...
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Addiction prevention and the GGZ believes these are premature actions and suggest controlled/regulated growth of plants over this proposal.