Shrooms in Amsterdam. Please help!

I heard that mushrooms will be banned by the Dutch Government and agree with their decision. In my opinion they should've done this years ago... Forgive me for my conservative views as I am very interested in foreign policy and have always been fascinated by the Netherland's lenient drug laws and their effects on their country's overall well being.

Apparently this ban was caused by a 17 year old female tourist who died while using mushrooms. I believe that making them illegal in Holland will decrease the number of tourists who travel there to use them thereby decreasing the number of incidents where users are harmed by them. I currently live in the UK and know that many travel to Amsterdam simply to go to coffee shops, smart shoppes, etc. I have also heard about protests in Amsterdam from those in favor of keeping mushrooms legal.

Please help me if you have any more information on this topic. I am interested in following the Dutch government's conservative movement and would like to study how the ban affects those harmed by psychedelic mushrooms.

 

Well, that French girl jumped off a building...it isn't as if she ate the mushrooms and they poisoned her and killed her. It's too bad that that happened but she risked that happening no matter what she was actually intoxicated on, alcohol included. I don't see how the banning of psychedelic mushrooms will stop tourists from getting them somewhere else or by other means, and if not they will find another way to get high (they are in Amsterdam). And it will keep people away from staying in their country and spending money.

 

No, they haven't banned them yet, but they are discussing it right now and will come up with an answer this month...

Prohibition is never the answer. Information is. Mushies don't do harm. People do...and ignorance...

 

the only thing banning a drug does is force demand up, leading to street dealers to pick up the slack. This will inevitably lead to a rise in criminal activity, as well as the rise of dangerous gangs. More people will be put in jail for a peaceful crime, leading to a spike in taxes. instead of getting a product that is guaranteed by a store proprietor, users will be buying something that could easily be poisonous, and not have an experienced person to ask questions whose answers wont be influenced by $$. take a look at how the alcohol prohibition in America lead to the rise of the Mafia, specifically Al Capone. if you agree with this ruling, you endorse crime, pure and simple.

 

I don't think a Dutch mafia is going to appear and build an empire with mushies if they are outlawed.

But yes prohibition is a bad idea in any way shape or form.

 

wasn't it swizerland that wanted to open up for smoking or did it, but just for the swiss, to still avoid the drug tourism? just cme to think of it...

 

a mushroom mafia.. hit man would have a totally new meaning

 

I have been to Amsterdam twice and indulged in that awesome fungus both times. if it is illegal there, i didnt notice. they should be LEGAL everywhere...before pot, alcohol, advertised prescription medicine and lots of other things.

 

I have always been curious how one can logically come to the conclusion, as you have, that prohibition is the answer to reducing harm from a substance. Most people I talk to base this "conservative" view on ideology (i.e. no logic, just following the herd so to speak) or some bit about how people cannot control themselves so the gov't must do so.
But I won't be presumptuous. Why do you think they should have been banned years ago?