cryer on magic mushrooms in amsterdam on YouTube

April 21, 2008

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The limitation to fresh Psilocybe mushrooms, which go bad quite fast, is greatly reducing the Netherlands’ export industry of hallucinogenic mushrooms. In a series of court cases spanning the years 2003 to 2005, this was challenged by a Dutch Psilocybe mushroom wholesaler. The high court ruled that there was no standing definition in regards to water content, which differentiates between a dry mushroom and a fresh mushroom. Passively dried mushrooms are to be legalized. However, in October 2007 the Dutch government announced ongoing plans to ban the sale of all magic mushrooms. A 2006 study by Matheny and his associated further demonstrated the separation of the bluing and non-bluing clades of Psilocybe in a larger, strongly supported but as of now still tentative phylogenetic tree of the Agaricales. Psilocybe is placed taxonomically in the agaric family Strophariaceae. The clade of non-bluing Psilocybe and its close relatives remain within the Strophariaceae family. The big shift, however, is clearly seen in the newly created position for the bluing Psilocybe. The clade of hallucinogenic species is placed in the newly-erected family, Hymenogastraceae, which closely related to the Galerina family.

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