[clydethefrog]

>Nevertheless, medical intervention was needed for 149 incidents involving mushrooms in 2007, an increase of 19 percent over the previous year. In 2005 there were 70 incidents. Among the high-profile cases was an incident in which a Danish tourist raced his car across a crowded camping. Several tourists jumped or fell from hotel windows.

>In the case that led Ab Klink to propose the ban in October 2007, a 17-year-old French girl committed suicide by jumping from a bridge into busy traffic. It was later revealed that the girl, not old enough to legally enter a smart shop herself, had asked a friend to buy her some mushrooms.

http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/662-mushrooms-ban-amsterdam-net...

[mg794613]

I was sort off hoping you would give those examples. The devil is in the details here. We have a long history of problem with tourist coming to Amsterdam and live like animals. Simultaneously in 2007 after a long time of having barely any seats in Amsterdam, the CDA (Christian Democrats) were looking for a reason for a stricter drug policy. Now I do agree with having more control on the abuse of the freedoms in our city, but I am convinced the ban on mushrooms has been a superficial fake solution. Yes, mushrooms are no longer being sold in the city, but now it's "truffels". The bigger problem, as was in this case with the unfortunate French girl, people come here and have absolute no control. What has been conveniently left out of this story is that the girl was already depressed and had been partying for days. Mushroom usage has been a very safe practice for millennia and some party girl and zealous political party ruined it for us.