{"id":101,"date":"2007-10-16T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T12:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2007-10-16T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T12:11:03","slug":"saving-the-shroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/saving-the-shroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Shroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it appears that they set up a way to protest <a href=\"http:\/\/baslife.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/10\/dutch-minister-of-health-to-ban-magic-mushrooms\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Dutch government&#8217;s decision to ban &#8216;magic mushrooms&#8217;<\/a>. On <a href=\"http:\/\/reddepaddo.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">RedDePaddo.nl<\/a> there is an email you can sign which is automatically sent to the parliament and ministers. Apparently Monday afternoon, 10,000 people had signed it already&#8230; Tuesday morning, this was <a href=\"http:\/\/reddepaddo.nl\/?page_id=12\" target=\"_blank\">20,000<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re taking more initiatives than just that, so be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/reddepaddo.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out their website<\/a>. At least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddepaddo.nl\/sendmail.php\" target=\"_blank\">SEND AN EMAIL<\/a>! They also give a bunch of great reasons why these mushrooms should not be banned:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivm.nl\/bibliotheek\/digitaaldepot\/CAM_paddos_risicoschattingsrapport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report investigating the risks<\/a> of mushrooms, they are NOT addictive (CAM\/RIVM). I believe this is the same report that the minister is basing his decision on.<\/li>\n<li>Nobody ever died from a mushroom overdose.<\/li>\n<li>Mushrooms literally expand the mind. Taking this freedom away from people should not occur in a democratic country.<\/li>\n<li>Shrooms grow freely in nature all around Europe. Consumers could look for them in the forests and pick toxic ones instead (it is said that this has caused deaths in France).<\/li>\n<li>Shrooms give the user a personal, mystical, insight-giving and special experience. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/Press_releases\/2006\/GriffithsPsilocybin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">research report of the American MAPS institute<\/a> reaffirms this.<\/li>\n<li>With the right information and consumption advice the chances of a bad trip are minimal.<\/li>\n<li>After the ban, shrooms will be sold on the street, without information or advice. The number of accidents is likely to rise.<\/li>\n<li>Except for with young tourists, shroom-consumption has not led to any problems. Irresponsible usage of shrooms by tourists can be prevented by Amsterdam&#8217;s mayor&#8217;s, Job Cohen, proposed 3-day plan.<\/li>\n<li>The same dealers that would sell shrooms, would also sell cocaine, XTC and other synthetics of questionable quality.<\/li>\n<li>Banned substances have a bigger appeal to youngsters.<\/li>\n<li>Hunting down drug producers costs the government a lot of money, without the production or consumption decreasing.<\/li>\n<li>Shrooms are easy to grow at home, which makes it hard to ban them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This list was translated from <a href=\"http:\/\/reddepaddo.nl\/?p=3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So take action now and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddepaddo.nl\/sendmail.php\" target=\"_blank\">send an email<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it appears that they set up a way to protest the Dutch government&#8217;s decision to ban &#8216;magic mushrooms&#8217;. On RedDePaddo.nl there is an email you can sign which is automatically sent to the parliament and ministers. Apparently Monday afternoon, 10,000 people had signed it already&#8230; Tuesday morning, this was 20,000! They&#8217;re taking more initiatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,33,17],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-ecology","category-politics","category-thoughts","tag-protest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}